Highly Specialist Physiotherapist - Team Lead

This role involves working as the team lead whilst supporting the service lead for the musculoskeletal physiotherapy service at Edgware Community Hospital. As one of the senior staff of the Physiotherapy Department providing services to a multicultural and diverse population, to be responsible for the local management, service development and delivery of a very high standard of physiotherapy care to patients at Edgware Community Hospital. This will be to patients with musculoskeletal problems as outpatients attending outpatient and GP facilities within the community of the London Borough of Barnet within Central London Community Health Care Trust (CLCH)., To assist in the responsibility for operational management of the team, allocating and organising the work of all staff to meet service priorities.
To be responsible for ensuring effective and efficient use of time with patients and for administrative duties
To assist the service lead to manage the delegated budget for own service. Together with the service lead to identify cost pressures to the Trust, monitoring and controlling expenditure.
To optimise the effective and efficient use of clinical and organisational skills and resources to ensure that service is highly responsive to clinical and local service priorities and needs. This includes waiting list management for any outpatient/outreach services provided by self or team.
With service lead to performance manage staff within own service and, where appropriate, evaluating and dealing with competency issues as required.
Ensure that all staff are fully inducted into own service including the safe and competent use of all equipment used, through teaching and supervision of practice., This role involves working as the team lead whilst supporting the service lead for the musculoskeletal physiotherapy service at Edgware Community Hospital. As one of the senior staff of the Physiotherapy Department providing services to a multicultural and diverse population, to be responsible for the local management, service development and delivery of a very high standard of physiotherapy care to patients at Edgware Community Hospital. This will be to patients with musculoskeletal problems as outpatients attending outpatient and GP facilities within the community of the London Borough of Barnet within Central London Community Health Care Trust (CLCH).
Please refer to the attached Job Description for list of roles and responsibilities.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
+ A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
+ Car lease scheme

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+ Flexible working options
+ Annual travel card loan
+ Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits