North London NHS Foundation Trust
Physical Health Therapies Lead
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Job Opportunity
Recognising the key role of Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) in bridging the gap between mental and physical health to address health inequalities in line with the NHS Long Term Plan, we are delighted to offer an exceptional opportunity for a dynamic Physiotherapist, Speech and Language Therapist or Dietitian to lead our Physical Health Therapies Team for adult inpatients across the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT).
About the Role
This role involves managing a team of different AHP professionals to provide holistic physical health care for mental health patients, ensuring best practice and overseeing key service areas including falls, moving and handling and physical exercise/activity.
This is a pivotal role and would suit an experienced clinical leader with the drive and passion to deliver high-quality therapy services to people with mental health conditions.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide professional leadership across our AHP community.
- Work in collaboration with established AHP teams and other Physical Health colleagues within each inpatient service to deliver physical health interventions for adult service users on acute mental health wards within the North London NHS Foundation Trust.
- Provide clinical, operational, and professional leadership and management to the Physical Health Therapies service (and wider AHP services as required).
- Design, deliver, and develop high-quality care within this new service in line with advances in evidence-informed practice, digital transformation, commissioning changes, etc.
- Act as the manual handling lead for Allied Health Professionals in the care group, supporting AHP staff with training, modelling and guiding on best practice.
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Benefits
- Be an integral member of our AHP Leadership team, providing professional leadership across our AHP community the Unplanned Care Group and will be supported by the Unplanned Care Head AHPs.
- Actively encouraged and supported in a range of continuing personal and professional development, quality improvement and research and innovation opportunities.
About North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy
- Provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- Ensure equity of outcome for all with our partners in North London and each borough.
- Offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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Why NLFT?
- Develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- Promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme.
- Excellent internal staff network.
Additional Information
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Jessica Lashko
- Job title: Head AHPs for Unplanned Care
- Email address: jessica.lashko@nhs.net
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