Main area Physiotherapy Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week (Applications will be considered from those seeking part time or compressed hours.)
Job ref 438-PB2671
Employer Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Royal Preston Hospital
Town Preston
Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 02/04/2025 23:59
Interview date 10/04/2025
Clinical Lead Physiotherapist - Occupational Health
Band 7
Job overview
Are you a Physiotherapist with Occupational Health experience looking to further develop your career, with opportunities to build strategic and clinical experience and have an impact? If this sounds like you, we have a unique opportunity that is too good to miss.
Looking after the wellbeing of our workforce has never been such a high priority. The NHS has faced unprecedented challenges in the last few years, and our teams achieve amazing things every day, putting our patients at the heart of everything they do. We are just as passionate about supporting them and need you to join us to provide and further develop a rapid access physiotherapy service which is responsive to the needs of our workforce and takes a preventative approach. You will also support delivery of our broader health and wellbeing strategy, helping us develop a culture where caring compassionately for our staff is embedded in everything that we do.
Main duties of the job
MSK conditions are the second highest reason for sickness absence within our organisation. Supporting our colleagues back to work or helping them stay at work is a key priority for us.
You will provide a proactive service for our workforce, using your clinical expertise to comprehensively assess and formulate individual treatment and management plans. This might involve functional workplace assessments and the provision of ergonomic advice. You will work closely with our core Occupational Health service to ensure that relevant advice is provided to managers to inform them about how to keep colleagues safe at work and support them through adjustments. You will be someone who thrives in a busy environment, and you will be able to independently manage your clinical caseload.
We have an ambitious programme of work around preventing MSK injury in the workplace, and you will be part of a multi-disciplinary project team, driving awareness, education and risk assessment.
Your passion and enthusiasm for your specialism will help us make a difference for our workforce. The workload is diverse, a commitment to professional development is crucial and you will also have the skills to continually evaluate the work of the team to ensure we are making impact where it counts.
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The service is provided at two main sites, Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley & South Ribble hospital to which the trust has a regular shuttle bus service to ease the commute.
Duties will include, but not be limited to:
* To communicate and collaborate with all Core Therapies stakeholder
* To help ensure the health, safety and security of service users, self and colleagues
* To support equality of opportunity and access to the service
* To provide and use information to support admin processes and patient care.
* To directly support the delivery of therapy to patients.
* To provide leadership and management support
For more information, please see the job description.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
* HCPC registration
* Diploma or Degree in Physiotherapy
* Evidence of CPD
* Clinical educator
* Post graduate courses in relevant area
* Member of the CSP
* Leadership course or qualification
* Member of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Occupational Health and Ergonomics
Knowledge & Experience
* Significant varied experience
* Significant experience in relevant clinical area of Physiotherapy at Band 6/7 level
* Knowledge of standardised and specialist assessments, treatment techniques and outcome measures
* Specialist knowledge and application of current best practice in physiotherapy and area of speciality
* Good understanding of MDT dynamics
* Understanding of clinical governance
* Experience of leading and management of a team
* Experience of inter-disciplinary working with shared goals
Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we’re looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received so it would be best to apply as soon as you can. We’ll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.
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