This role provides the chance to work across a diverse caseload, supporting both Primary and Secondary Care patients.
This post offers a 12‑month rotation across three key sites:
* UHCW Hospital Site
* City of Coventry Health Centre
* Rugby St Cross Hospital
Each rotation is designed to broaden your clinical experience, develop your skills, and provide insight into the full MSK outpatient pathway. You will work with a wide variety of patient presentations while gaining a strong understanding of how each site operates and contributes to the wider service.
This is an excellent opportunity for clinicians seeking to grow within a supportive, multidisciplinary environment and contribute to delivering high‑quality MSK care across our region.
Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.
Our MSK outpatient service is made up of Physiotherapists, Technical Instructors, First Contact Practitioners, Advanced Practice Physiotherapists, Extended Scope Practitioners and Consultant Physiotherapists. We are committed to research and innovation as we aspire to provide the best outcomes for patients.
As a member of the team, you will receive regular in‑service training and peer supervision as well as the prospect for further training and development through shadowing and CPD opportunities.
Responsibilities
1. Manage a caseload of both primary and secondary care patients with varying diagnoses and/or complex needs, using evidence‑based, client‑centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in a defined clinical area.
2. Ensure development of junior staff through supervision, training and annual appraisal.
3. Participate in the planning, development and evaluation of clinical practice and service development within the area.
4. Contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust Physiotherapy service.
5. Take a lead for information management to ensure high‑quality data which is recorded, evaluated & reported in a timely manner.
6. Work as an autonomous practitioner and member of the multidisciplinary team, contributing to team discussions and influencing decisions about patient care programmes, taking on the role of care co‑ordinator and/or vocational lead where relevant.
7. Carry out treatment, using a broad variety of modalities and clinical reasoning to allow selection of the most appropriate technique, evaluating, modifying and recording all interventions and outcomes & adapting them to meet the needs of the patient.
8. Use highly developed manual treatment skills requiring coordination, sensation & dexterity.
9. Produce and deliver an annual report specific to own clinical area & participate in the delivery of the Physiotherapy business plan.
Professional Standards
* Work in accordance with CSP & HPC rules of professional conduct and within local care pathways, policies and standards.
* Establish and maintain effective communication networks with patients, carers, MDT, other workers and agencies across health, social care and the private sector locally and regionally.
* Promote awareness of the role of Physiotherapy.
* Network nationally across other Physiotherapy providers and educators for the development of best practice & improve service delivery for patients.
* Be responsible for own personal development in order to establish and maintain competence and fitness to practice as a Specialist Physiotherapist in own specialist area. To maintain a professional evidence‑based portfolio, meeting the requirements of the HPC.
* Be responsible for the supervision and written assessment of physiotherapy students on practice placement within the Trust.
* Contribute to the Trust's Divisional and Team's clinical governance arrangements and quality agenda, including the setting and monitoring of practice standards, clinical risks, CAE & Health & Safety.
* Be involved / assist in the recruitment and selection of junior staff.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview; any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.
In submitting an application form, you authorise the University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third‑party systems via an automated process and will only be used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.
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