Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
We're looking for an exceptional Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our NoW MSK Service within NCHC. This is a high-quality, patient-centered, and innovative service. This role involves assisting the team with the treatment of patients with a wide range of MSK conditions. We provide comprehensive in-service training as well as peer supervision and dedicated problem-solving slots.
Flexible hours are an option for this role. We are specifically looking for someone to cover our Thetford and Diss areas, although work bases will vary depending on service needs across various sites in Norfolk.
Main duties of the job
You will contribute to the delivery of high standards of health care to patients with MSK conditions in clinics, providing specialist MSK assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating packages of care. You will manage your own caseload, which may include complex patients.
About us
Norfolk and Waveney Community Musculoskeletal Services (NoW MSK) is a collaborative service between Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust (NCH&C) and East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH), providing MSK services to patients within Norfolk and Waveney.
The NoW MSK Service's team comprises Extended Scope Practitioners, First Contact Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Specialist Hand Therapy Occupational Therapists, Specialist Biomechanics Podiatrists, and MSK Assistant Practitioners.
We provide First Contact Practitioners from within our overall MSK structure. We work out of various venues, including health centres, GP surgeries, community hospitals, and leisure centres.
Apply now to join NCHC, an organization that has been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.
Job responsibilities
* To assess and prescribe care packages for patients with complex MSK conditions to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.
* Assessments and treatments will take the form of face-to-face or virtual consultations to enhance patient access to our services.
* To work with all healthcare professionals and statutory/non-statutory agencies to provide a seamless integrated service to our service users.
* Work when needed in a variety of locations including lone working.
* Engage with System One Optimisation.
* Engage with referral to discharge standard processes.
* To be aware of the demand and capacity model which will reflect workload needs at any given time.
Person Specification
Skills, Abilities, and Knowledge
* Evidence of having worked at a relevant level.
* Demonstrate tact and diplomacy.
* Work flexibly to accommodate patient/service needs.
* Ability to use own initiative.
* Good observational & reporting skills.
* Demonstrate good IT and standard keyboard skills.
* Ability to communicate in English, both written and verbal forms.
* Highly motivated.
* Empathy & sensitivity.
* Concentrate when undertaking patient care & inputting data/patient records.
* Evidence of good team working.
* Knowledge of additional specialist areas through in-house training and short courses.
Qualifications
* Diploma or 1st level degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent experience.
* Current HCPC registration.
* Evidence of specialist MSK knowledge and skills acquired through postgraduate courses attended.
* Previous MSK experience.
* Clinical Educators Course.
* Evidence of experience working within the NHS as an MSK Physiotherapist.
Personal Qualities
* The ability to kneel, bend & stoop.
* The ability to maneuver limbs of around 5-6 kg.
* Ability to travel to all sites/hold a UK driving license.
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.
Address
Thetford Healthy Living Centre (although may have to cover other sites within Norfolk).
Croxton Rd, Thetford Various sites within Norfolk NCHC.
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