Clinical Team Leader- Community Pain Service

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An exciting new opportunity exists for a motivated Physiotherapist/Nurse with a special interest in chronic pain to work within the Southport & Formby Community Pain Service. With highly specialist clinical skills in the assessment and management of musculoskeletal and chronic pain conditions, you will have appropriate postgraduate training or equivalent experience relevant to the speciality of persistent pain, with an advanced knowledge of evidence based practice in the field of chronic pain. You will be an excellent communicator with well-developed management skills and excellent leadership qualities. You will also be a forward-thinking team player, with a proven track record of innovative approaches in pain management. You will provide expert clinical practice, education, training and support to a wide range of allied health professionals to effectively manage patients with persistent pain. In partnership with the multidisciplinary pain management service, you will play a pivotal role in the pain service to establish new and innovative pathways of care, bringing influence to strategic direction in the field of persistent pain for the benefit of patients. The primary function of the role is to provide leadership and management for the team, ensuring the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high quality care to patients/clients.

The Clinical Team Manager will provide clinical leadership and operational management to the team as well as playing a key role in the development of the service. They will be expected to work autonomously ensuring the overall standards of the service are maintained.

The Pain Service is committed to delivering a high quality service in this ever-changing environment. You will be required to provide a strong leadership role within the team and to lead service improvement, audit and other activities to deliver an efficient and effective service with excellent clinical outcomes for Chronic Pain patients.

The successful individual will have significant evidence of appropriate post-graduate development and demonstrate the drive to develop and learn in order to improve care and services for our patients.

This post is subject to an enhanced with children’s and adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Aarti Narula Job title: Operational Service Manager Email address: Aarti.Narula@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07795815701