Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Highly Specialist Team Band 7 Physiotherapist in the Musculoskeletal (MSK) service in Swansea Bay UHB. The role will involve assessing and managing patients both in core physiotherapy and in Hand Therapy Clinics. The post holder will also support the delivery of core MSK services with a special interest in Hand Therapy, liaising with the MSK Clinical Team Leads and the wider Hand Therapy MDT's in Orthopaedics and Plastic Surgery. While also monitoring staff development, training, mentorship and student provision.
Main duties of the job
The post holder requires extensive knowledge and experience working in the MSK environment. You should have highly developed clinical reasoning skills to implement an effective patient centered approach to care. You should have strong insight of evidence based practice and understand its relevance in developing MSK pathways. The post holder requires experience with leading and managing a team to provide high quality service. Additionally, it is important to have experience in completing audits and/ or service improvement projects. The post holder must be confident to work with other health care professionals in Physiotherapy and other stakeholders including; GP’s, secondary/tertiary care consultants.
Working for our organisation
We believe staff are our best asset and we want you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.
As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.
You might be a nurse or doctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - we have a job for you.
There are also apprenticeships, work placements and volunteering roles available.
We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.
Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show that our commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.
If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery, with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Degree in Physiotherapy (or other relevant qualification)
2. Professional Registration with HCPC
3. Evidence of post-graduate masters level education or evidence of equivalent clinical experience.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
4. Substantial experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
5. Supervision experience of students, physiotherapy assistants and junior staff.
6. Significant NHS experience
7. Experience in leadership and management
Desirable criteria
8. To be able to speak Welsh
Service Development
Essential criteria
9. Involvement in audit, research and understanding quality issues.
Desirable criteria
10. Service development or quality improvement experience
Skills
Essential criteria
11. Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate.
12. Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for the service, including experience of quality issues and audit.
Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable