A Vacancy at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Chronic Pain Specialist Physiotherapist, Band 7 to support the Adult Pain Service within Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Working within our Health Centres you would support a busy pain management service. As part of the established chronic pain team comprising specialist nurses and consultants, occupational therapists and psychologists you will provide expert clinical intervention for these patients.
You will require extensive postgraduate experience, including substantial specialist experience in chronic pain at a senior level. You will provide physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients referred from the Adult Pain Clinic. You will also have advanced knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of complex and chronic patients.
The service is committed to CPD and encourages supervision at all levels. This post will give an invaluable opportunity to anyone that wishes to further their career within a chronic pain field. Your individual programme of professional development will be tailored to your interests and will relate to the knowledge and skills framework.
Evidence of qualifications will be required at interview and during the onboarding process.
To provide clinical leadership for a designated area of work and to plan and organise efficiently and effectively with regard to patient management and use of time.
To maintain own clinical professional development (CPD) by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments, and incorporate them as necessary into the work of the team.
To establish priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands, and ensure that they remain in accordance with those of the service as a whole.
To ensure excellent standards of evidence based care are delivered in specialist area of responsibility.
Choose Well – Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
On-Call
Please note that senior positions (AFC band 8A or above) may be expected to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.
· Provide physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients referred from the Adult Pain Clinic.
· To act as a source of expertise on the management of complex and general chronic pain patients providing an advisory service to patients, relatives, physiotherapists, other healthcare professionals and medical staff.
· To take a major role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have complex and or chronic presentation, and to determine clinical diagnosis and physiotherapy treatment indicated.
· To maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.
· To undertake a leadership role in the planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluation of the therapy service provided to the patients within the speciality across the sites on a day-to-day basis.
· To educate and train physiotherapists, other health professionals, medical staff and physiotherapy students in the management of chronic pain conditions.
This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Dec 2024