Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a MSK Advanced Clinical Practitioner Physiotherapist to join the exemplar Joint Health Integrated MSK Service at MWL Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to cover a maternity leave.
As an advanced clinical practitioner, the post holder will support the continued drive for patient-centred care, champion quality, deliver performance targets, and ensure safe effective patient outcomes by placing the patients at the heart of all we do.
We are looking for an experienced, dynamic, and highly motivated advanced physiotherapy practitioner who is enthusiastic and forward-thinking to support the Joint Health Integrated MSK Service.
The successful candidate will have a wealth of musculoskeletal clinical experience and be able to demonstrate strong leadership and educational skills. A vision for research and service development is required to ensure continuing excellent patient and staff experience.
Main duties of the job
The Joint Health Integrated MSK Service is a single point of access service offering self-referral alongside specialist assessment, investigations, and treatment for patients with musculoskeletal conditions. The service utilises an escalation and de-escalation model, enabling appropriate access to all necessary diagnostic services, treatment, and onward management when indicated. Several innovations and channel shifts have taken place in the service, accelerated due to unprecedented times. This has been an exciting opportunity to develop our digital strategy/delivery and incorporate the benefits of digital alongside face-to-face consultations while being led by patients with lived experience and staff feedback.
The team is multi-professional including: MSK Doctors, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Consultant Rheumatology MDT, Consultant Physiotherapists, Advanced MSK Physiotherapy Practitioners, Specialist Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist, MSK Physiotherapists, Advanced MSK Podiatry Practitioner, Specialist Occupational Hand Therapists, Advance Practice Rheumatology Therapist, Therapy Assistants, and Admin support.
The service puts a strong emphasis on and values the learning environment, ensuring that staff can develop skills and knowledge to their full potential. The therapy outpatient service has a well-established supervision, case discussion, and journal club programme.
About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Achievements:
* Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
* Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
* National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Job responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
* Support the clinical management of complex patients encompassing the initial assessment and subsequent care in the appropriate area, ward or department.
* Actively support patients and their families through communicating difficult and highly complex information using a variety of methods to ensure effective understanding in a timely manner.
* Communicate complex information to patients/carers during the consent process prior to commencement of treatment plans and invasive and non-invasive procedures including explaining treatment options.
* Proactively support patients and carers in coming to terms with their illness/condition.
* Provide a professional portfolio of skills including clinical assessment, basic diagnosis, treatments, and advanced practical skills.
* Ensure effective communication is maintained between members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure appropriate individuals are informed of changes to the patients' conditions or treatment plan.
* Provide empathy and reassurance through understanding the quality-of-life issues associated with their illness/condition.
* Develop a high level of complex decision making in relation to the assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of patient care.
* Provide professional leadership and support within a multi-professional team.
* Monitor and promote high standards of care and documentation.
* Diffuse potential complaints and hostile situations with staff, patients and carers using highly developed negotiation and interpersonal skills.
* Provide follow-up and specialised supportive advice as required for all members of the multi-professional team caring for patients and discharging to a variety of other settings.
* Develop a locally approved formulary and prescribe within agreed limits under supervision.
* Work in collaboration with the multi-professional team to promote quality care, participating in audit and assisting in developing unit protocols and practice.
* Facilitate effective communication and handover within the multi-professional team and ensure patients and their families are appropriately involved and informed.
* Support and assist with the training of the multi-professional team as they are inducted to the specialty.
* Gather, analyse, and report a wide range of data and information.
* Act as a role model and an expert resource for patients and staff throughout the Trust.
* Support the Consultants, Intensive care/Anaesthetic Registrars, and other Doctors, in providing patients with treatment plans within the specialty.
* Perform invasive and non-invasive and complex specialist procedures relevant to the specialty and make recommendations for treatment.
* Participate in service development. Write protocols, guidelines, and procedures for own remit which impacts on other members of the multi-disciplinary team. Develop and evaluate these protocols and guidelines and procedures using current literature and research.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* First level registered nurse/professional UK registration
* First Degree (or equivalent experience)
* Post registration course in specialty
Desirable
* Master's in advanced clinical Practice
* Registered health professional with legal and accountable responsibilities for non-medical prescribing
* Teaching qualification (C&G730, CertEd, PGCE or equivalent)
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
* Significant demonstrable experience of working in the setting, some of this must include working at a senior level managing and leading teams and this will be assessed at interview
* Ability to demonstrate specialist expertise underpinned by theory through CPD
* Excellent clinical reasoning/clinical decision-making skills
* Evidence of involvement in the development of programs of care, protocols and guidelines
* Knowledge of Clinical risk management and Governance
Skills
Essential
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills demonstrating negotiation and persuasion skills
* Evidence of both theoretical and practical skills and competency in Care Management within the specialty
* Ability to manage demanding and challenging workload
* Ability to handle sensitive situations with tact and diplomacy
* Ability to make effective decisions
* Interpretation of diagnostic tests
* Ability to build rapport with colleagues, patients and relatives
* Experience of MDT working
* Strong leadership and team building skills
* Ability to use own initiative
* Effective time management skills
* Ability to work autonomously or within a team
Desirable
* Confident with IT
* Enthusiastic, dynamic, self-motivated
Other
Essential
* Occasional requirement to exert moderate physical effort for short periods during a given time when moving and transferring patients.
* Required to concentrate when carrying out care. Work is generally predictable but there is an occasional requirement to deal with unpredictable emergency situations.
* Working closely with complex patients and their carers.
* Supporting patients, carers, and families who have been given bad news.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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