Employer The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
Town Birmingham
Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum or pro rata if part-time
Salary period Yearly
Closing 20/04/2025 23:59
Advanced Practice Physiotherapist - Spasticity Service
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Are you dynamic, motivated, forward thinking and have a passion for driving changes to permanently improve the quality of life of patients with focal spasticity, getting actively involved in the patient’s journey?
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our newly evolving and rapidly growing service for interventional treatment of spasticity of the upper and lower limb. You will use evidence-based principles, current best practices of non-operative treatment to help optimise preoperative assessment and guide postoperative rehabilitation.
Being part of the MDT you will work within the Upper and Lower Limb MDT Spasticity clinics. You will support and guide the administration of Botulinum Toxin for a significant cohort of patients with focal spasticity who have regular injections. You will be optimising pathways for patients and supporting communication between healthcare professionals that are involved in the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of patients with upper motor neuron lesions.
This role also requires the ability to review the current service provision, explore options and make recommendations for the future service including business case development with support as required.
Main duties of the job
To act as the therapy clinical lead in the Spasticity Service and to promote and actively develop the service in conjunction with the Multidisciplinary Team and Head of Therapy Services.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. To be responsible for providing autonomous advanced assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with complex neurological disorders and focal spasticity, working in an Advanced Practice role with the skills to inject and prescribe and authority to order further investigations such as imaging.
2. To act as a source of expertise and provide specialist clinical knowledge and guidance on the management of spasticity to Primary Health Care professionals, Consultants, Senior Therapists, and other Health Care Professionals.
3. To act as a clinical lead in co-ordinating, delivering, and evaluating the Spasticity service together with the Head of Therapy Services, Lead Consultant for Spasticity and multidisciplinary team in line with the Trust Business Plan and the needs of service users.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest specialist orthopaedic units in Europe. We offer planned orthopaedic surgery to people locally, nationally and internationally.
Our Trust is a very special hospital; big enough to deliver world class services and small enough to offer exceptional patient and staff experience. We offer a working experience unique in the West Midlands and we're always on the lookout for passionate people to join our award-winning team.
The ROH is an equal opportunities employer. We employ people of difference and are committed to growing an inclusive culture, where difference is celebrated, and people feel able to bring their whole and authentic self to work.
We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a range of inclusive, family friendly and flexible working arrangements and policies, to support our people in the workplace. Flexible working requests will be considered.
The Trust is committed to the Disability Confident Interview Scheme and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy and consider them on their abilities.
If you have a disability and need any support with your application or require any reasonable adjustments to be implemented please do get in touch with the Recruiting Manager for this position so that the team can support you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see full job description and person specification attached for more information about the role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
* BSc Degree / Diploma in Physiotherapy
* Current HCPC registration
* MSc level post-grad courses including US guided injections and independent prescribing
* MSc in relevant subject
* Member of relevant special interest group
Other
* Able to develop and clinically lead a service
* Able to work independently and as part of an MDT in the management of complex patients
Experience and skill
* Significant experience at senior level as a chartered Physiotherapist within neurology, neurorehabilitation services and with patients with spasticity
* Highly developed skills including US guided injection of Botulinum toxin and splinting
* Advanced knowledge of adjunctive interventions for spasticity management
* Experience of MDT working
* Experience of teaching and mentoring
* Experience of service improvement including options appraisal and development of business cases
* Experience of autonomous clinic work at advanced practice level
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.
Name Nikki Mason Job title Head of Therapy Services Email address nicola.mason1@nhs.net Telephone number 0121 728 2185
Mr Petros Mikalef
Consultant Orthopaedic Hand and Spasticity Surgeon
pmikalef@nhs.net
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