Band 7 Pain and Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapist

Band 7 Pain and Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapist - Permanent
Opportunities for 4 or 5 days working

Whittington Health is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced Physiotherapist to join our Adult Community Services team in a unique 50/50 split role between the Haringey Community Pain Service and Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapy Service .

Working across both services, you will provide specialist assessment, treatment and management for patients with complex musculoskeletal and persistent pain conditions, while contributing to multidisciplinary team working, service development and the delivery of evidence-based care.

Based across sites in Islington and Haringey, this role offers excellent opportunities to develop advanced clinical skills in both pain management and musculoskeletal physiotherapy, supported by experienced senior clinicians, Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioners and a wider multidisciplinary team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to broaden your expertise, develop your career and help shape high-quality community services within a supportive and dynamic organisation.

Main duties of the job
Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.

About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities
You will be expected to:

• Triage electronic referrals regularly.
• Effectively use and ensure that the electronic patient database records reflect your current caseload and activity; with timely discharge and outcome appointments.
• Provide high quality physiotherapy including assessment, treatment and advice to patients with various Neuromusculoskeletal presentations.
• Assess and treat own caseload of patients, and maintain associated records as an autonomous practitioner with support from senior staff when required.
• Communicate with other health professionals, patients and carers with regard to the delivery of patient focused care.
• Participate in departmental continuous professional development, departmental education and training, audit and evidence-based projects.
• Undertake all necessary verbal and written documentation required for patient care.
• Have clinical supervision on a regular basis with senior staff. Supervision can take the form of formal training, clinical reasoning, peer review, case reviews and reflective practise.
• Supervise and appraise juniors and students.
• Provide education, training and supervision to physiotherapists, students and other staff as appropriate.
• Assist in the operation and development of MSK Outpatient Service provision across Whittington Health.

Please read the personal specification carefully to ensure your application clearly demonstrates all of the essential criteria. Please provide examples in your supporting information to show how you meet these criteria.

Or to speak to us, please feel free to get in contact.

Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential

• Good written/spoken English
• Degree / Diploma in Physiotherapy leading to HPC registration

Desirable

• Membership of professional groups
• Recent and relevant post-registration training / courses in musculoskeletal Physiotherapy

Knowledge and Experience
Essential

• Exp of working in MSK outpatients inc acute, chronic, GP, consultant and self referrals
• Problem solving approach
• Specialised knowledge and experience of working with a wide range of approaches to the clinical reasoning and management of patients with complex pain and movement dysfunction presentations
• Post-registration physiotherapy experience in MSK

Desirable

• musculoskeletal outpatients Orthopaedics Sports injuries, Rheumatology Neuro/Elderly Rehabilitation
• Working in the NHS
• Specialised knowledge of the current management guidelines and evidence in the safe treatment of Musculoskeletal disorders
• Involvement in clinical audit/evaluation projects/service development

Skills and Abilities
Essential

• Specialised knowledge of the safe management of musculoskeletal disorders
• Ability to prioritise
• Flexible approach to changing circumstances and departmental needs
• Able to demonstrate good communication, report writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to self-motivate and motivate others
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to teamwork
• Good organisation, time management and prioritisation skills

Desirable

• Monitored/supervised: Physiotherapy staff students Assistants/clerical staff
• Previous experience teaching Musculoskeletal physiotherapy staff/students and other professionals
• Experience of undertaking departmental duties
• Able to deputise for team leader / management

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Demonstrate ICARE values in application form
• To be confident in the use of electronic patient records and trust reporting systems
• Strong ethos of team working and supporting colleagues to achieve team goals
• Ability to carry out concurrent activities and work in an unpredictable work environment

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