Therapy Clinical Lead - Musculoskeletal Therapies

Therapies and Rehabilitation are seeking an innovative and creative Allied Health Professional for a Clinical Lead post (fixed term) in Musculoskeletal Therapy Out-Patients. This exciting role will offer clinical and strategic leadership to AHP's delivering out-patient Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy care.
The service has a number of Clinical Specialists and team leaders who provide a wide range of highly specialised services ranging from Spinal rehabilitation, Gym rehabilitation, Sports and Exercise Medicine, Fracture Clinic, Emergency Department, Hand therapy, TMD, and Occupational Health. Together with the existing part-time Clinical Lead, the Therapy Service Managers and the Clinical Support Leadership team you will support Clinical Governance and promote the Quality and Safety agendas in MSK Therapy pathways. You will promote evidence based practice, benchmarking and networking to evolve service delivery so that NUH continually improves patient outcomes, access times and departmental efficiency. You will be an inclusive leader who can work across teams to support clinical capacity and to role-model and support collaborative team working.
The role will comprise of clinical (60%) and non-clinical (40%) sessions. The post-holder will possess Advanced Practice skills in all 4 pillars and will be able to support MSK clinical capacity in extended scope clinics, This role will provide strategic clinical leadership in the management of patients under the care of NUH across MSK pathways, and will contribute to direct Advanced Practice patient care in the post-holder's clinical profession.
Example activities and projects which are forecasted in the next 12 months are:
Transition of electronic noting to a new software package. E template creation
Operational implementation of national MSK database PROMS collection in physiotherapy
Clinical response to growing service demand based on national guidelines and internal requests e.g. Breast services, TMD, specialist thoracic outlet syndrome services.
Website content to upgrade patient information and department profile
Continuing the work to promote competency based staff training packages
Expansion of Patient and Public Involvement opportunities
Band 7 team leader training and development
Workforce Optimisation work streams to include demand and capacity and job planning.
The post holder may work across a number of different sites including City Campus, Leengate (Queen's Campus), the Treatment Centre and the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM), Loughborough.
There will be opportunities to develop skills in post via support from the part-time existing Clinical Lead, the Therapy Service Managers and Clinical Specialists. This is a very supportive, friendly service with a positive team culture which highly values excellent patient care and staff well-being., The postholder will be supported by Clinical Lead peers across our respective professions and clinical specialties, alongside therapy service managers and our Directorate Leadership Team.
Please see the attached full Job Description and Personal Specification for further specific details of this post.

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