Band 7 Enhanced Practice Physiotherapist - Spinal Interface

Band 7 Enhanced Practice Physiotherapist - Spinal Interface Band 7

Main area: MSK Outpatient Therapy Services

Grade: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 11 hours per week

Job ref: 153-SP04308

Department name: UHD - General Recruitment Site Poole Hospital

Town: Poole

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pa/pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 23/03/:59

As University Hospitals Dorset, we are a three-site acute trust with 'university hospital' status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.

We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.

We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work. We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.

At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.

As a Trust, we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the University Hospitals Dorset MSK Therapy Team for a part-time Band 7 Enhanced Practice Physiotherapist.

This role would involve working in a supported clinical role as a spinal interface clinician within the DMSK spinal service, using enhanced level of practice skills in the assessment, diagnosis and shared decision-making for patients with spinal pain or pathology. This post would be supported by our team of established spinal advanced practitioners and involve responsibilities for education and supervision within the wider MSK therapy team including clinical supervision.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in an innovative and growing service, providing the highest quality of care for patients and leading the development of a growing and evolving service to shape it for the future.

Location: Poole Hospital

Main duties of the job

To take a clinical leadership role in the delivery of therapy services to MSK therapy patients treated at University Hospitals Dorset and within the DMSK surgical interface service. This post will predominantly involve the delivery of outpatient clinical care for the spinal DMSK service.

The post holder will provide skilled leadership and responsibility for service development, the setting and monitoring of standards of practice and implement policy and policy changes in their clinical area. Furthermore, they will participate and lead quality improvement projects across MSK Therapy and make recommendations to the team and service leads.

Working for our organisation

What we offer:

Management support to continue learning, with support from both the MSK Therapy Service and DMSK leadership structures. This role involves enhanced practice, and the successful candidate will be supported in the training and delivery of enhanced practice skills to support their core practice. This may include imaging requesting and interpretation skills.

Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Christchurch Hospital and Poole Hospital

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme. In some cases this means that a service may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long-term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

Person specification Qualifications

• Degree in Physiotherapy
• Continued professional development diary including evidence of reflective practice, in-service training and courses attended
• Post-graduate courses relevant to the clinical specialty
• Recognised post-graduate qualification e.g. MSc or equivalent experience
• Post-graduate courses or experience in leadership
• NHS QI or research qualification
• Achieved or working towards independent prescriber registration
• Previous experience as a Non-Medical referrer for imaging

Experience

• Broad range of experience at Band 5 level
• Experience at Band 6 level
• Experience of managing other therapists
• Audit, research and quality improvement
• Student supervision/clinical education
• Previous experience at Band 7 level
• Evidence of leading robust service improvements
• Specialist experience in managing complex spinal MSK pathologies

Skills

• Skills for the assessment and treatment for a range of complex conditions
• Able to communicate and receive complex and/or sensitive information
• Skills in the ordering and interpretation of spinal imaging
• Skills in the ordering and interpretation of blood results

Other

• Able to demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning and select from a range of treatment options
• Committed to providing high-quality care as demanded through the Clinical Governance Agenda

Please note: Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.

This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. While this vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.

Internal Candidates: staff employed prior to merger who voluntarily change jobs will be appointed to UHD terms and conditions.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.