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Join our team as Deputy Inpatient Physiotherapy Lead and play a pivotal role in delivering safe, efficient, and outstanding patient care. Working closely with the Inpatient Physiotherapy Lead, you will help drive a high-quality, evidence-based inpatient service while ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the department. As an expert clinician and visible leader, you will support, guide, and inspire staff, role modelling professional and organisational values at all times. You will take responsibility for service management in the Lead's absence, contribute to effective workforce and resource planning, and ensure optimal use of equipment and supplies. Collaboration is central to this role-you will work alongside multidisciplinary teams and key stakeholders to ensure a seamless, patient-centred experience. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated and experienced physiotherapist ready to step into a leadership role, influence service development, and make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes. As Deputy Inpatient Physiotherapy Lead, you will play a central role in delivering safe, effective, and high-quality patient care while supporting the leadership and development of the inpatient physiotherapy service. You will be responsible for ensuring all care is evidence-based and aligned with local and national guidelines, maintaining the highest professional standards at all times. Acting as a visible and approachable leader, you will inspire, support, and develop your team, fostering a positive, calm, and safe working environment. In the absence of the Inpatient Physiotherapy Lead, you will take on the role of 'Physio in Charge', overseeing the day-to-day running of the service. This includes ensuring appropriate staffing levels and skill mix, setting clear priorities, and maintaining expected standards of care across the team. You will be an expert communicator, confident in managing complex situations, resolving concerns from patients and relatives, supporting staff, and building strong relationships with consultants and multidisciplinary teams. You will also ensure accurate documentation, incident reporting, and proactive escalation of risks, contributing to a culture of learning and continuous improvement. Working closely with the Lead, you will support operational and managerial functions such as rostering, audits, incident investigations, KPI monitoring, and the development of policies and procedures. You will contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives, and the implementation of new processes to enhance patient care and experience. You will take an active role in staff management and development, including appraisals, performance management, onboarding new team members, and supporting recruitment and retention. Mentorship and education are key aspects of the role, as you will coach colleagues and students while promoting wellbeing through compassionate leadership. You will also lead on departmental link roles (such as Infection Prevention and Control or Resuscitation), ensuring best practice is embedded through audit, education, and quality initiatives. Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of national guidance and professional standards will be essential. Clinical Responsibilities Alongside your leadership role, you will remain an expert clinician, managing a complex caseload and contributing to the resuscitation team. You will carry out comprehensive patient assessments, including clinical examination and consideration of psychosocial factors, and develop personalised, goal-oriented treatment plans in collaboration with patients. You will provide specialist advice to patients, families, consultants, and colleagues, and support clinical decision-making around investigations, referrals, and ongoing care pathways. You will actively participate in MDT meetings, ward rounds, safety huddles, and handovers, ensuring physiotherapy is well represented and integrated into patient care. Supporting patient flow and safe discharge planning will be a key focus, working collaboratively with the wider team. You will also act as a key point of contact for patients and families, addressing concerns and ensuring a seamless, patient-centred experience throughout their hospital journey and beyond. This role offers an excellent opportunity to combine advanced clinical practice with impactful leadership, shaping services, developing people, and improving patient outcomes in a dynamic inpatient setting. Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience & Skills Essential Degree in Physiotherapy with HCPC registration Evidence of ongoing post-registration training and development Minimum 2 years' experience at Band 6 level (or equivalent) within an orthopaedic/spinal inpatient setting Strong clinical expertise in orthopaedic and surgical physiotherapy Experience in staff management, including supervision, feedback, and supporting development Experience in service coordination, including staffing, rostering, and patient flow Experience managing incidents, patient concerns, and contributing to investigations Experience in audit, quality improvement, and implementing change Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport, demonstrate empathy, and manage challenging situations Strong organisational, prioritisation, and decision making skills Proficient IT skills and ability to use clinical systems and standard software Motivated, proactive, and able to lead by example Desirable Master's degree in a health related or leadership field Leadership or management qualification Specialist training in orthopaedics or surgical physiotherapy Experience in independent healthcare settings NHS/public sector experience Experience contributing to policy development Understanding of financial and resource management

Advanced Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Breast Cancer The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Employer: The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Location: Manchester, M20 4BX Contract Type: Permanent Hours: Full time Disability Confident: Yes About this job We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced Advanced Specialist Breast Cancer Pharmacist (Band 8b) to lead and further develop our breast cancer pharmacy services. This is a senior leadership position within our established breast cancer clinical pharmacy team. The post holder will provide strategic and clinical leadership to the breast cancer pharmacy service, working closely with the multidisciplinary team to ensure delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care across both the main Christie site and our outreach and peripheral clinics. You will be accountable for the safe, effective, and evidence-based use of systemic anti-cancer therapies (SACT) for patients with breast cancer. You be joining a supportive and forward-thinking team with a reputation for pioneering work in service delivery for patients with breast cancer. If you are enthusiastic and keen to shape the future of breast cancer pharmacy at one of the UK's most advanced cancer centres we would like to hear from you. To lead and manage the specialist breast cancer pharmacy service, ensuring clinical excellence, service alignment with Trust and national standards, and continuous improvement through defined performance measures. To provide advanced clinical pharmacy expertise, including independent prescribing, multidisciplinary collaboration, and delivery of patient-centred, evidence-based care for breast cancer patients. To oversee medicines optimisation and governance, ensuring safe, effective, and cost-efficient use of cancer medicines through robust protocols, incident management, and regulatory compliance. To manage and develop staff, providing leadership, mentorship, appraisals. To drive innovation and service development, leading initiatives such as pharmacist-led clinics, digital prescribing, and pathway optimisation to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities. To contribute to education, research, and financial stewardship, delivering teaching, audits, and clinical research while managing budgets, forecasting drug expenditure, and supporting sustainability goals. Although the pharmacy service is based at The Christie Hospital main site, postholders may be required to work at any location across the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cancer Network. The Trust has a flexible working policy and, subject to service commitments, it may also be possible to support an element of working from home. The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK. Key Duties and Responsibilities To lead, develop and manage the specialist breast cancer pharmacy service within the Trust, ensuring alignment with departmental, Trust, and national standards. To provide highly specialist clinical pharmacy advice to other clinicians in multidisciplinary team meetings, outpatient clinics and on an ad hoc basis regarding the management of inpatients undergoing treatment for breast cancer including the management of clinical uncertainty by critically appraising the evidence-base and applying it to novel situations and reaching appropriate decisions in complex, challenging or sensitive environments where there are competing priorities and/or an absence of reliable evidence and in situations where other professionals may challenge the advice given. To act as an independent prescriber for appropriate breast cancer patients, managing own caseload and undertaking pharmacist-led clinics. This will include the management of patients with complex pharmaceutical care issues and distressed patients in emotive circumstances. To record personally generated information in the patient's Electronic Case Notes and Electronic Prescribing systems. To support patient-centred care by providing expert medicines advice, promoting adherence, and facilitating shared decision-making including verbal and written communication of highly complex drug or medicine related information to patients and relatives or carers including patients who may have language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities. To identify service improvement opportunities to meet the changing requirements of both the patient population and the Trust and take a pro active role in the development and implementation of these initiatives both within the Trust and with external agencies across the network where applicable e.g.: Greater Manchester Breast pathway board, NorthWest Genomics Laboratory Hub. To drive innovation in the treatment of patients with breast cancer, including pharmacist led clinics, supportive care interventions, and digital prescribing systems (EPMA). To establish a series of performance measures (discussed and agreed with the Consultant breast cancer pharmacist, and Service Manager & the Director of Pharmacy) against which the success of the post will be measured and reviewed on an ongoing basis. To lead and take responsibility for specific projects involving business planning for service expansion, workforce models, delivery of Trust and NHS strategy in shaping the breast cancer services across the organisation which may impact across or within departments, services or agencies external to the organization and collaborate with key stakeholders. To work collaboratively with other organisations across the network to encourage and support the implementation of creative and innovative service models to improve healthcare inequality and drive efficiencies across the system. To identify opportunities to reduce health inequalities and improve access to optimal breast cancer treatments across the network. To develop, implement, and maintain treatment protocols, prescribing guidelines, standard operating procedures and patient information in collaboration with the consultant pharmacist, clinicians and nursing teams. To collaborate in the development and monitoring of breast cancer specific homecare, self administration, and pathway optimisation initiatives and monitor expenditure across these areas. To be responsible for proactive reporting, investigating and reviewing trends in medication incidents in collaboration with the Medicines Safety Officer. Including risk assessment and leading on the implementation of actions with the wider multidisciplinary team to reduce likelihood of future harm and share learning through relevant governance committees. To maintain assurance that high cost, high risk medicines are used appropriately with robust governance processes. To act as a national opinion leader through involvement in guideline development, advisory boards, and specialist forums. To represent the Trust in regional and national projects to advance breast cancer pharmaceutical services. To deputise for the Breast Cancer Consultant Pharmacist at local, regional, and national level meetings (e.g. GM Cancer Breast Pathway Board). To continuously deliver and evaluate clinical pharmacy services and lead on service improvements to optimise breast cancer medication use and contribute to service/system efficiencies. To provide specialist teaching, supervision, and mentorship to pharmacy staff, medical staff, nurses, allied health professionals and students. To develop educational resources for both staff and patients and contribute to local and national training programmes in breast cancer and oncology pharmacy. To initiate, plan, organise, lead and participate in research, clinical audits, quality improvement projects, and service evaluation and disseminate findings through publications, conferences, and professional networks. To monitor and forecast breast cancer drug expenditure in collaboration with pharmacy leadership and consultant teams. To ensure safe, effective, and cost efficient use of medicines for patients with breast cancer, including horizon scanning and implementation of commissioning decisions. To analyse prescribing trends and implement cost saving initiatives while maintaining patient safety and outcomes including the generation of reports from Electronic Prescribing Systems where required. To provide expert advice on procurement, named patient requests, and management of drug shortages. To provide direct line management and professional leadership for specialist breast cancer pharmacists and pharmacy technicians within the oncology clinical pharmacy team. To undertake appraisals, supervision, training, and performance management of staff. . click apply for full job details

An exciting opportunity to join us as a permanent Support Manager for the Referrals and Bookings team at the largest single site cancer centre in Europe. As a Support Manager in the Referrals and Bookings team, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring timely and efficient referral-to-appointment processes for our patients. As a successful candidate, you will have the rewarding opportunity to make a tangible impact on the patient experience by overseeing and optimising the referral and booking team, systems and processes. If you are passionate about making a real difference in the lives of patients and possess exceptional managerial and organisational skills, we invite you to apply and be part of our dedicated team committed to delivering outstanding patient care. The Support Manager will have planning, performance and service delivery, financial planning, HR, IT and audit responsibilities. The Support Manager will also be responsible for managing the Overseas Visitors for the Trust ensuring that all charges raised for Overseas Visitors are in accord with the latest NHS regulations. Please refer to the job description for further detail. Responsible for the development of clinic templates and management of electronic patient record systems and appointment processes within the Referrals and Bookings team responsibility. Responsible for the assessment of eligibility of care for overseas visitors following the criteria set out by the Department of Health. Provides management support to the Assistant Service Manager and Deputy Service Manager for Referrals and Bookings and Outpatients Reception, 1. Planning and service delivery. To provide support to the assistant and deputy service manager to ensure the smooth running of operational services in line with service development plans. Undertakes assessment of overseas visitors in relation to their eligibility for receiving care following the Department of Health Guidelines. Works collaboratively with colleagues to ensure policy within central administration are developed and adhered to, organising working parties to review policy changes and the impact on these on other service areas. Plans and organises own time and workload and that of the team leaders within the department to ensure prioritisation of work that has an impact on patient care and service delivery. Co-ordinates activities with other health care professionals where detailed planning is required to ensure the department meets organisational targets for Referrals and Bookings and Outpatients Reception. Produces regular monitoring and highlight reports and risk assessments for the Divisional Management team. Provides advice to patients / relatives on an individual basis, providing non-clinical information with regards to queries, complaints, and appointment issues. Undertakes interviews with patients/ relatives with regards to patient surveys and patient experience audits. 2. Financial Management & Business Planning Authorised signatory for payments in relation to equipment for Referrals and Bookings and Outpatients Reception. Support the assistant and deputy service manager in the day-to-day budget management duties, including monitoring spend against outpatient and central administration budgets. Develops and monitors schemes and action plans to implement cash-releasing efficiency savings targets. 3. Human Resources Supports the assistant and deputy service manager in the day to day management of staff within Referrals and Bookings and Outpatients Reception. Supports the clinic supervisors in managing absence and undertaking return to work interviews. Ensures annual appraisals are undertaken on all line-minated staff, monitoring the training and developmental needs of the department and supporting the clinic supervisors in addressing those needs. Supports the assistant and deputy service manager in the initial stages of disciplinary and grievance procedures. Responsible for the training and induction of Referrals and Bookings and Outpatients Reception staff; supporting the team leaders in delivery of training. Provides training on electronic patient record and clinic management systems to clinicians and other staff within the division. Provides guidance and advice on clinic management systems to the administration chambers across the Trust. Completes monthly absence reports for section using ESR, highlighting issues to be addressed. 4. Communication Communicates complex and contentious information on health record and information management issues with clinicians, senior managers within Trust and across other external organisations and agencies. Provides advice on legislation governing health records to non-health records staff. Communicates and reassures patients and relatives, daily, with regards to queries about new patient referrals. Regularly attends and participates in team meetings and works closely with the assistant service managers within the division. Ensures effective and lasting relationships with colleagues, staff, patients and other stakeholders are developed. Develops and implements processes that support good communications within service areas and the division. 5. Information Resources, Audit, Research and Development Maintenance of CareFlow/ EPR systems to ensure accuracy of information stored on systems and accuracy of medical records scanning processes. Manages the storage and retrieval of information/ notes from health records library in line with Trust policy. Responsible for the asset register for Referrals and Bookings and Outpatients Reception, ensuring that it is up to date and accurate. Participates in delivering change projects in service improvement and patient experience. Takes responsibility for personal continuing professional development. The above indicates the main duties of the post which may be reviewed in the light of experience and developments within the service. Any review will be undertaken in conjunction with the post holder. Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to . The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.