Job title: Pain Specialist Physiotherapist (Physiotherapist, Nurse, Occupational Therapist)
Salary: Up to £41,000
Location: Grimsby or Skegness, Lincolnshire
Hours: Full or Part Time Hours
Are you a Physiotherapist, Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Sports Therapist with a keen interest in pain management?
We have an exciting opportunity for someone with a background in one of these professions to join our community pain management service in Lincolnshire as a Pain Specialist Physiotherapist.
We offer full-time hours from 9-5 Mon-Fri, no shifts, excellent rates of pay, paid HCPC/NMC fees and protected learning time to support your professional development. The role is hybrid with both clinic and remote working.
Please note as a remote worker you must be based within the UK
What does being a Pain Specialist Physiotherapist involve?
* Delivering relevant, effective and sensitive pain management to individuals and groups, as part of a multi-disciplinary team
* Promoting patient education and understanding of pain, rehabilitation and self-management strategies on an individual basis and as part of a group
* Ensuring that pain management is focused on the patient’s individual needs
* Ensuring own clinical standards comply with CQC requirements, including infection control, patient safety, equity, protection of vulnerable people and data protection
* Contributing to clinical team development and MDT meetings
* Understanding of the importance of psychological approaches
What skills and experience will you need to apply?
* Demonstratable experience and interest in chronic pain
* NMC or HCPC professional registration
* Background in physiotherapy, nursing or occupational therapy
* Prior experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
* Excellent communication skills, written, verbal and listening
* Knowledge of cognitive behavioural therapy techniques
We can offer you the opportunity to do something you love, with the right support to access the roles you want, through clear career paths and best-in-class training and development. This is an environment where you have accountability for your career and can make a real contribution to the organisation and to our patients.
About Connect
Looking for a great healthcare career? Connect Health is the place for you!
At Connect Health we engage, educate, and empower people to live healthy and active lives by delivering the right care, in the right place at the right time.
We're a leading independent healthcare provider, offering a wide range of services on behalf of the NHS; MSK (musculoskeletal), chronic pain, rehabilitation, mental health rheumatology and health coaching. Serving 375,000 NHS patients across 22 Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), we deliver high quality personalised care, which is delivered effectively with positive patient outcomes.
As the largest independent provider of MSK and pain services, we're on a mission to help the NHS provide the best possible care in community settings. With over 30 years of experience and innovative processes and technology, we're making healthcare better!
At Connect Health, people are our focus and by living our values every day; Quality, People Centred, Pioneering and Dynamic, Connect Health really is a great place to work.
More than just delivering healthcare… In addition to providing the best possible care for our patients, we aspire to make an even bigger difference to the health and wellbeing of the population by extending our influence into the communities in which they live. Flippin’ Pain (flippinpain.co.uk) is our groundbreaking population health movement focused on engaging whole communities and empowering them with the knowledge to better understand and manage pain. The Flippin’ Pain campaign offers events, activities, and resources co-created with people with lived-experience and world leading experts and has become a real game-changer!
Are you ready to make a real impact? Check out our vacancies and help us to continue making healthcare accessible for all, as innovative and forward-thinking healthcare market leaders.
Why work for Connect Health?
We are dedicated to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and rewarding our colleagues. We continue to reward our staff with competitive salaries and a great range of employee benefits. These include:
* A minimum of 5% of your hours is bespoke personal development time
* A proven roadmap to Consultant-level practice for those that wish to develop this level of capability.
* Access to an internal network of Consultant clinicians (medical and AHPs) that provide leadership, educational, research and clinical support.
* Access to the full content (live and recorded sessions) of the Connect Clinical Education Academy
* Access to support and engagement with our entire MDT clinical workforce via
o Emergency clinical on call rota
o Clinical supervision
o Coaching and mentoring
o Online clinical resource and chat network
o Internal conferences and study days
o Clinical support tools/pathways
* Up to 30 days holiday (plus public holidays)
* option to buy additional annual leave
* an additional day off for your birthday
* online discounts portal
* employer pension contributions
* salary sacrifice schemes
* an employee assistance programme
* performance related pay rewards
* team building/away days
* reimbursement of professional body membership fees for clinicians
These benefits are our way of saying thank you to our colleagues.
“The best thing about Connect Health? For me it’s the opportunity to develop and be part of an organisation that aren’t afraid to innovate whilst keeping the patient at the centre of everything we do.” – Connect Health MSK Clinician, Spring 2022