Clinical Lead Specialist, Physiotherapist in Pelvic Health

• Inspire and motivate others to deliver best practice and to continually improve standards in line with the evidence base and national guidelines.
• Provide clinical leadership and influence for planning and service delivery within clinical area of expertise.
• To demonstrate professional skills, standards and experience consistent with a specialist in the field and to ensure/oversee that services provided comply with professional and departmental standards of practice in collaboration with the Clinical service leads /clinical academics and clinical leads.
• Promote and develop a learning environment within area of practice using a collaborative approach .
• To support the development and implementation of a training strategy for area of responsibility in collaboration with team leads/clinical academics, and clinical specilaists.
• Support research awareness and activity within the team, in collaboration with the clinical academics and clinical leads in therapies.
• To promote evidence based practice.
• To maintain and enhance skills and knowledge in order to maintain professional competence and fitness to practise.

Essential

• Diploma/ Degree in relevant AHP profession
• Health & Care Professions Council registration
• Evidence of experience /post graduate training and education to Masters level or equivalent and CPD relevant to speciality area.
• Evidence of structured training on appraisal and supervisory skills
• Evidence of continuous and current professional and academic development relavnt to clinical field
• Leadership/ Management training
• Evidence of post graduate training in basic research skills e.g literature reviews, critical appraisal.

Essential

• Expert clinical reasoning skills in the appropriate application of a range of techniques and approaches to the management of the relevant clinical area
• Specialist knowledge and application of best evidence based practice in relevant speciality area and application of therapy assessments and intervention
• Ability to articulate vision of the therapy service in the clinical area.
• Ability to remain updated with professional practice and research and integrate this into daily patient management.
• Ability to communicate effectively and flexibly, and to adapt communication style to the needs of patients and staff.
• To lead, inspire motivate and empower teams using effective clinical leadership qualities in an integrated service
• Ability to mentor, coach and support patients, staff and colleagues.
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships.
• Proven negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Skills in presention and training in both formal and informal environments
• Ability to command the confidence of the multidisciplinary team members
• Ability to organise, prioritise, delegate and work to deadline effectively
• Ability to cope with working in a potentially stressful environment and with patients or carers who may be displaying aggressive and or challenging behaviour
• Ability to prepare service level reports e.g. demand/activity
• Proven excellence in developing/and providing education and teaching to other professionals and students.
• Advanced supervision skills

Essential

• Extensive experience post qualification with evidenced experience at a senior level within relevant speciality
• Experience of supervising qualified therapy staff and students
• Experience of managing staff on performance and other workforce policies
• Experience of incident investigation and implementation of change of practice as a result
• Significant success in multidisciplinary/multi agency working.
• Evaluation of clinical practice including participation in research/audit/service evaluation and quality improvement projects.
• Demonstrate evidence of learning from experience and having undertaken formal and informal CPD, both general and specific to clinical field/ speciality
• Experience of leading an effective team
• Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient care.
• Experience of supporting a culture of research awareness.