Job description

Job responsibilities

• To provide a comprehensive service to patients with physiotherapy need at a variety of locations. Skills required include:
• Management of patients with complex musculoskeletal, orthopaedic and rheumatological disorders and conditions
• Advanced manual therapy and therapeutic exercise skills.
• Extensive knowledge of patient self- management and education
• Excellent communication with consultants, GPs and other healthcare professionals is essential in providing a holistic approach to patient management
• To initiate and participate in the development of new ideas and the evolution of existing systems within Primary care and hospital based musculoskeletal services.
• To provide structured supervision, in line with ERS guidelines, for more junior members of the team.
• To carry out annual appraisals and subsequently create professional development plans with more junior members of the physiotherapy team
• To provide specific advanced level teaching for more junior members of the team.
• To organise, coordinate and deliver training for GPs and other healthcare professionals as required.
• To be responsible for helping to plan service development and implementing decisions.
• To deputise for musculoskeletal team leads, in their absence, with regards to day to day management tasks. Examples of tasks included:
• Checking new referrals against the teams referral criteria
• Dealing with problems/issues as they arise and passing things on to more senior managers as required
• Support and liaison with the admin/booking teams
• To lead on the planning and clinical education of undergraduate students in the physiotherapy team
• To participate in the recruitment process of more junior members of the physiotherapy team
• To participate and lead, when appropriate, in the monitoring of activity and audit of Musculoskeletal physiotherapy service.
• To autonomously assess and diagnose patients with a diverse range of Musculoskeletal, orthopaedic or rheumatology conditions, using appropriate assessment/diagnostic techniques, skills and tools.
• To autonomously create individual treatment plans using a variety of appropriate physiotherapy treatment regimes for a range of patient groups including patients with complex and multiple musculoskeletal and medical problems.
• To adopt a problem solving approach, engaging patients and carers in their treatment plan, negotiating on agreed outcomes, gaining consent and educating patient on self-care.
• To evaluate and review treatment outcomes to facilitate discharge of patients.
• To deliver care in a range of settings including clinics, GP surgeries and acute hospital as required.

Person Specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Graduate Diploma [P]hysiotherapy/BSc Physiotherapy or equivalent level
• HCPC Registration

Desirable

• CSP membership Special interest group membership

EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Good general experience, plus some specialist experience in musculoskeletal out- patients
• Have participated in in-service training
• Have been involved in service training evaluation/initiated service change

Desirable

• Experience of having sole responsibility for supervision of staff and students
• MDT working within Trust

KNOWLEDGE

Essential

• Relevant post-graduate courses completed or commenced
• Awareness of research methods, patient outcomes, clinical governance and audit
• Good general background knowledge of orthopaedic conditions and their management
• High level knowledge of musculoskeletal conditions and their management, specifically spinal pain
• Knowledge of pain management strategies for chronic conditions

Desirable

• Participation in research, outcomes, clinical governance and audit

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential

• Good communicator
• Excellent organisational skills and time management
• Thorough/reliable
• Good problem solver Able to work independently as a sole practitioner in GP surgeries
• Able to work independently as a sole practitioner in GP surgeries

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Clayponds Hospital - Various ECP sites l

London

W5 4RN

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)