Job overview
Are you a physiotherapist keen to work in a first-class teaching hospital in our award-winning service? Are you committed to the provision of evidence informed practice and the development of motivated junior staff? Do you want to work in an environment with world class facilities with a focus on manual and exercise therapy; education of undergraduate and postgraduate students; research, service development and clinical audit?
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An opportunity has arisen for a full time B6 Musculoskeletal specialists to join the Whipps Cross Therapies team within Barts Health Trust. The post holders will be a qualified Physiotherapist, with experience in MSK. They should be registered with the HCPC, and ideally would have also completed an Orthopaedic inpatient rotation. They should have excellent baseline knowledge of musculoskeletal physiotherapy principles and have experience of treating a variety of peripheral and spinal patients. Assessments and treatments will be through face to face and virtual appointments. Evidence of involvement in project management and audit will be desirable.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will join the Barts Health Band 6 musculoskeletal rotations based at Whipps Cross Hospital and its community sites. They will have the opportunity to work alongside different specialties including, Orthopaedic, Rheumatology and Community Pain clinics. They will have supervisory responsibility for a Band 5 physiotherapist and students, providing appraisals, teaching and clinical support with managing demanding caseloads. They will also have roles linked to the Band 7-line managers that will facilitate their managerial and leadership qualities, for example GP liaison, education and Musculoskeletal Audit champion. We have an excellent evidence based in-service training program covering each individual joint with theoretical knowledge, practical skills and clinical implementation. We also run a fantastic variety of external courses for which we have a number of free places allocated. The MSK Therapies team also has a strong Band 8 strategic and clinical leadership team including APP’s and FCPs, who support the MSK physiotherapy team to deliver the best possible patient care.
This is an excellent time to join our motivated and forward-thinking, friendly department. Our aim is to provide excellent clinical care for our diverse patient group, within an NHS environment, and develop dynamic clinicians who bring innovation to our ever-expanding service.
Please note the posts may close early based on the number of applicants
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
1. 18 months post graduate experience and 8 months in relevant MSK outpatient and orthopaedic clinical settings.
2. Appropriate post registration experience.
3. Documented evidence of CPD, in accordance with HCPC recommendations
4. Experience of working as part of a team uniprofessional and multiprofessional team.
5. Advice, supervision, appraisal, training and support to more junior staff, support staff and students.
Desirable criteria
6. Experience of audit/research
Skills
Essential criteria
7. Good knowledge of current best practice in physiotherapy in the relevant setting.
8. Specialist clinical skills in musculoskeletal outpatients.
9. Understanding and application of risk management
10. Understand legal responsibilities of the profession and the associated code of ethics
11. Ability to organise and prioritise own and more junior staffs workload and supervise support staff in this field.
12. Ability to work autonomously and set own priorities and support other staff in this field.
13. Demonstrate understanding and previous participation in activity to support the clinical governance agenda
14. In-depth knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to client group
15. Be able to demonstrate flexibility and reliability.
16. To contribute toward working on the inpatient weekend rota
17. Ability to maintain respiratory competency to be able to perform emergency on-call physiotherapy duties
Qualifications
Essential criteria
18. Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy
19. Member of the Health and Care Professions Counci
Desirable criteria
20. Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Other
Essential criteria
21. Supervisory & appraisal skills of other staff including junior staff / support staff / students
22. Ability to pass on knowledge and deliver training both internally within the profession and externally to other staff groups
23. Committed to lifelong and self-directed learning.
24. After induction, to be able to actively participate as an appraiser to the Trust IPR system
25. Committed to personal and team development
26. Ability to present information both orally and written in a clear and logical manner
27. Ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes
28. Ability to cope with working in a busy or stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients/carers
29. Able to carry out moderate to intense physical effort throughout the working day and carry out concurrent activities.
30. Commitment to nondiscriminatory practice
31. Understanding and compliance with Data Protection