Overview
Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Spinal & Lower Limb – Band 7 – West Wiltshire
Job Introduction
An opportunity is available within the North-West Wiltshire MSK service for a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist. The role comprises of clinical facing role and supporting on clinical leadership of the team e.g. supervision, complex clinics, service development, service delivery planning and organisation within your non-patient facing time.
The post holder will be able to manage a mixed caseload of complex MSK and orthopaedic Spinal and lower limb patients with a variety of conditions.
The successful candidate will work alongside Physiotherapy Head of Service and band 7s across the county to provide high quality, evidenced based physiotherapy and will be specifically involved with facilitating the operational development of MSK services. You will be expected to travel across sites between Chippenham and Melksham.
It is critical that the post holder develops strong relationships with Band 7s to enable a consistent, high-quality service is provided throughout Wiltshire and to share learning and examples of good practice.
Our service is well respected, and we have developed strong relationships with local GP practices, Orthopaedic and Rheumatology consultants, midwives as well as other healthcare professionals. Patients can self-refer to our service, with FCP and other healthcare professionals within the GP practices, who also refer patients to our service.
We are committed to staff development and support our team with both formal and informal learning with in HCRG Care Group.
For an informal discussion please contact Cara O’Rourke, Head of MSK Physiotherapy Service
Viewings of the departments welcome prior to post closing.
Mobile: 07901640822
Email: cara.o’rourke@hcrgcaregroup.com
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
Main Responsibility
- To provide excellent leadership to all staff within the defined Community MSK Teams named above.
- Use data and soft intelligence to deliver and enhance performance, meeting and surpassing all key performance indicators.
- To work in conjunction with other Band 7 clinicians to act as a point of contact for stakeholders and referrers
- To contribute to the strategic planning including delivery of agreed business objectives.
- To support policy changes and implementation within the Community setting.
- Lead locally agreed service changes.
- Work with other Locality Group Leaders to ensure a consistent approach to delivery across the division/service.
- To continually measure and evaluate own work and current practices through the use of evidence based practice projects, audit and outcome measures
- Monitor the patient experience and constantly strive for improvement.
- Support the Patient Safety and Quality (PSQ) team to embed a culture of excellent governance.
- Support the development of teams to deliver a clinically safe and effective service.
- Role model clinical competency by maintaining own professional development.
- Implement processes for sharing learning from complaints and incidents.
- Create an open and transparent culture within the team, which supports improvement and innovation.
- Identify individual learning needs.
- Ensure that appraisals are undertaken in line with organisational policy.
- Work with colleagues from across the directorate to ensure consistency of workforce development competencies and delivery.
- Ensure all caseload in MSK is identified and addressed within the policies and within agreed timescales and key performance indicators.
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
The Ideal Candidate
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Package Description
As a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Spinal & Lower Limb – Band 7 you will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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