Clinical Specialist in Pain

Job Title: Clinical Specialist in Pain (DUR08)
Location: Durham, North East
Salary: £36,000 to £40,000 depending on experience
Contract basis: Full time
Contractual hours per week: 37.5

About this opportunity
Clinical Specialist in Pain up to 12 Month Fixed Term Contract for maternity cover Full Time/Part Time considered Predominantly remote with possible face to face Salary £36,000 to £40,000 depending on experience Locations – Stanley Primary Care Centre Stanley DH9 0AB, Seaham Primary Care Centre Primary Care Centre, Seaham SR7 7JE

Why work for Cora Health?

• Professional Development: Enjoy a minimum of 5% of your working hours dedicated to your personal growth and development. Attend internal conferences, study days, and access clinical support tools and pathways to excel in your role and career.
• Generous Holiday Entitlement: Benefit from up to 30 days of holiday (plus public holidays) to relax and recharge. You’ll also get another day off for your Birthday. If you’d like even more holiday to enjoy you can participate in our generous holiday buy and sell scheme.
• Wellness Support: Access a suite of health support tools and an employee assistance program for your well-being so you can be at your best and be your true self.
• Performance Awards: Excel in your objectives and be rewarded further for your hard work with a range of pay, gifts and incentives awarded alongside attending our annual colleague awards to be treated and feel special.
• Savings and Support: Make huge saving by making the most of Blue Light and Healthcare Services discounts as well as the very important employer pension contributions.
• Membership Fee Reimbursement: Save your pennies, as we cover the cost of role required professional membership fees.
• Cora Clinical Education Academy: Access a wide range of bespoke learning opportunities with live and recorded sessions, to enhance your clinical knowledge and skills across all clinical pathways.
• Collaboration Opportunities: Engage with our entire clinical team through, including emergency clinical on-call support, clinical supervision, coaching and mentoring.
• Team Building: Join in on team-building and away days to build strong connections with your colleagues.
• Flexibility: Work in a way that supports home live, through hybrid working options and flexibility in working hours and times.

About the role
We at Cora Health are seeking to continue to provide high quality care whilst 2 of our team are on maternity leave and are currently looking for 2 whole time equivalent Clinical Specialists in Pain who are passionate about providing high-quality patient-centred care to join us as part of a multidisciplinary team in our Durham and Darlington Pain Services.

The Pain Services provide a tailored approach to the individual service user. The successful candidate will be required to work predominantly remotely via Teams but also in face to face clinics. You will be joining a multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, nurses and Psychological Therapists who are committed and passionate about providing a biopsychosocial model of care to people with persistent pain.

We are dedicated to delivering the highest level of patient care, in the most efficient and cost-effective way, with re-investment to ensure services are sustainable. We are looking for well-organised Clinical Specialist in Pain, to deliver quality clinical care for patients with chronic pain. Whilst undertaking comprehensive assessment and diagnosis of patients with a wide variety of physical and emotional needs, you must formulate, deliver, review and progress individual treatment programmes and ensure effective treatment, specialist advice and timely discharge are achieved.

We are committed to a multi-professional workforce based on competency and welcome applications from Physiotherapists and Nurses. You’ll be registered with an appropriate professional body and ideally be a qualified practitioner that works within Pain. If you’re able to manage a varied caseload of chronic pain patients, committed to CPD and have the desire to develop yourself and the service, with a keen eye on improving patient care, then we’d like to hear from you.

Join our motivated, ambitious, and fast-growing team. We focus on competency, developing talent and offer great flexibility.

Main duties of the role will see the successful post holder utilising their specialist skills to

• Assess patients’ requirements, in relation to their goals. Plan, manage and review functional and psychological restoration for individuals and groups.
• Review care plans at timely intervals and communicate effectively with the patient’s GP, advising on ongoing and flare up management plans agreed with the patient.
• Provide safe, effective and dignified care according to best practice and national guidelines.
• To provide advice and treatments to individual patients within best practice and national guidelines.

Who we are looking for:

• Previous experience in delivering pain services with tangible results.
• Current valid registration with your relevant professional body or equivalent regulator (HCPC or NMC)
• A keen and enthusiastic clinician with a commitment to providing excellent, personalised care as part of a multidisciplinary team
• An understanding of the impact of chronic pain in the wider community and how collaborative working across the local system enables prevention and addresses health inequalities
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner, within scope of practice and deliver a quality clinical service meeting the clinical and operational needs of the Pain service with senior support as required.
• To contribute to the development of and promote a positive and dynamic image and culture to both internal and external stakeholders. At all times striving to reflect and encourage our core value behaviours
• To develop and foster productive relationships with local stakeholder groups, charities, GPs, and other potentially productive links.

We are Cora Health:
Cora is a leading provider of community healthcare services in the UK. We deliver MSK (musculoskeletal) services, diagnostic imaging, day-case surgery, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, podiatry, persistent pain management, mental health, orthopaedic and rheumatology services.

We want everyone to have the opportunity to thrive. We help people help themselves, to get back to their best or to simply find a new way forward.