Main area MSK Grade Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (covering Maternity leave) Hours Part time - 28 hours per week (working weekends and bank holidays) Job ref 844-6827636
Employer Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Catheriens Health Centre Town Birkenhead Salary £37,338 - £44,962 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 04/02/2025 23:59
Specialist Physiotherapist
Band 6
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, forward thinking Specialist Physiotherapist who is keen to develop and advance their clinical skills within a friendly, supportive and innovative environment.
Main duties of the job
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust MSK Physiotherapy service provides a comprehensive range of treatments for patients presenting with a wide variety of MSK related complaints. We operate as part of the Wirral MSK triage service providing assessment and treatment of MSK conditions and referring back to triage for onward investigation where this is identified. We also receive referrals from secondary care with a mixture of orthopaedic, rheumatology and post-operative conditions. Working as an MSK Physiotherapist, you will be required to assess to a high standard and provide a range of quality and evidenced based interventions in a variety of community settings throughout the Wirral peninsula.
Person specification
Experience and knowledge
* Broad experience of working in a variety of clinical areas as a physiotherapist e.g., elderly care, neurology, general medicine, orthopaedics, MSK, respiratory care
* Good knowledge of working in specialist physiotherapy area
* Knowledge of current best practice in specialist physiotherapy area
* Knowledge of team / group dynamics and role of a Physiotherapy specialist within a team
* Evidence of effective working within an MDT
* Excellent clinical reasoning skills
* Broad base of clinical physiotherapy knowledge and different approaches required to clinical interventions
* Knowledge of governance issues
* Supervision of staff and delegation of tasks
* Ability to work under own initiative, be adaptable, flexible, compassionate, and approachable
* Ability to establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with service users and their carers
* Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
* Effective communication skills, including report writing and presentation skills
* Clinical experience of working in a related clinical area
* Experience as a physiotherapist in the NHS and be able to demonstrate awareness of current NHS and organisation issues
* Respiratory on call competent as relevant to the post being applied for
* Evidence of participation in health, safety, and risk management
* Participation in audit / research
Skills and attributes
* Excellent clinical reasoning skills
* Broad base of clinical physiotherapy knowledge and different approaches required to clinical interventions
* Knowledge of governance issues
* Supervision of staff and delegation of tasks
* Ability to work under own initiative, be adaptable, flexible, compassionate, and approachable
* Ability to establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with service users and their carers
* Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
* Effective communication skills, including report writing and presentation skills
* Evidence of participation in health and safety and risk management
* Participation in audit and research
Qualifications and Training
* Degree in physiotherapy or equivalent
* HCPC registered physiotherapist
* Evidence of CPD
* Clinical educator certificate
* MSc modules in relevant health studies
* Ability to travel to various hospital and community locations
* Ability to fulfil occupational health requirements for the post, with reasonable adjustments as necessary
* Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
* Awareness of relevant national frameworks / guidance relating to area of work
* Commitment to professional lifelong learning
* Able to cover evening clinics as required by the service
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.
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