The Role

Recent investment from North Lanarkshire Health and Social care has created a new rare and exciting opportunity within the AHP Care Home Liaison Team. The team provide a holistic, person centered and multi-professional approach to advice and support for care homes across NHS Lanarkshire.
Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy have a key role in rehabilitation, including targeted falls prevention and the promotion of meaningful activity to maximise health, wellbeing and personal independence.
The team are currently working on initiatives and service development work streams to improve the quality of the service provision within this sector. This investment will allow us to Increase the workforce to allow timely increased multi-focus support of falls management to help the earlier identification of modifiable risk factors.
With appropriate training and support, the expected duties will involve providing advice and continued support to care homes and the post holder will play a key role in initiatives that aim to increase activity levels and reduce risk of falls in the care homes setting.

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring

Registered Physiotherapist with valid HCPC Registration
Educated to / working towards / operating at Degree Level
Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety , effectively and efficiently
Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice
Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions , pathology, policies and procedures associated with the speciality / area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within speciality / area of practice
Leadership skills to enable the day to day management of service delivery
Further education / evidence of Continuous Professional Development in area of speciality including study days / courses / post graduate qualification
The post holder will possess excellent team working / leadership skills and have the ability to motivate others and work using own initiative
Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills
Effective time management skills
Working knowledge of basic information technology

It would be great if you also have

Member of CSP
Membership of relevant special interest group
Multi-disciplinary working
Research and audit
Experience or interest in specialist area as detailed in role profile for this post

Contract type

Permanent

Full time

37 hours

Location

This role will be based in AHP within Law House

Looking to find out more?

If youre looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Nicola O'donnell on Nicola.O'donnell@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Mackenzie Logan, Recruitment Administrator on Mackenzie.Logan@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshires benefits include:

A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
Occupational health services
Employee Counselling services
Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If youre looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

Additional Information for Applicants

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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

We anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.

*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential childrens setting/secure unit.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.

We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.

From 1 April 2024, the working week for NHS Agenda for Change workers in Scotland will be reduced. Full-time hours will reduce from 37.5 to 37 hours (pro rata for part-time staff) without loss of earnings.

NHS Lanarkshire will implement this change but it may not be possible to fully transition from 1 April and there may therefore be some areas of the organisation where implementation may take longer. If the department is currently unable to safely accommodate the reduced hours from 1st April, you may be required to work 37.5 hours per week until the department can meet the requirements without impacting patient safety - you will, of course, be remunerated accordingly. NHS Lanarkshire is committed to full implementation of the 37 hour working week across all areas as soon as it is safe to do so.

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