Women's Health Specialist Physiotherapist
The Waltham Forest Women's Health Hub is seeking an experienced and innovative Specialist Physiotherapist to provide specialist assessment, treatment, and advice to patients referred via a new single point of access for gynaecology referrals. This role will involve providing leadership in developing, planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating the Pelvic Health service provided to patients within the multidisciplinary clinic in the Women's Health Hub.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Physiotherapist to help deliver and shape the future of women's health services within the NHS. If you are passionate about improving healthcare outcomes for women and have postgraduate experience as a senior physiotherapist in relevant MSK/Women's health outpatients, we would love to hear from you.
Applicants are invited to apply for the post above to join the Women and Children's Division at Whipps Cross University Hospital. The Division has been rated Good by the CQC and is part of Barts Health NHS Trust, providing Women and Children's Services across East London.
We are looking for an experienced Specialist Physiotherapist with a commitment to and passion for improving services and outcomes for patients and their families. This role requires individuals with experience of working with Gynaecology/Maternity/Urology patients and evidence of CPD in accordance with HPC recommendations.
Main duties of the job
1. This is a role working in a Women's Health musculoskeletal outpatient physiotherapy department, but working closely alongside Women's Health Hub colleagues, including Gynaecology/Sexual and Reproductive Health Consultant and GPs with a Special Interest in Women's Health.
2. To provide specialist assessment, treatment, and advice to patients within the field of women's health, facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries.
3. Provide leadership in developing, planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating the Pelvic Health clinic service provided to patients within your specialist area on a day-to-day basis and with a view to future developments.
4. To give highly specialist guidance and advice to other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) on matters relating to your specialist area.
5. To act as a specialist resource for physiotherapy staff and other health care professionals.
6. To take a lead role in providing women's health physiotherapy care, including the advanced assessment and treatment of patients who have diverse presentation and can be highly complex. To work in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team to provide clinical diagnosis, and as an autonomous practitioner plan and perform appropriate treatment, and maintain records and ensure others do the same. To assess to a high level and be able to treat and provide advice on cases.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate, and support an inclusive working environment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Job responsibilities
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one-size-fits-all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
Although this position is a 12-month fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 12 months.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
Experience
* Postgraduate experience as a senior physiotherapist in relevant MSK/women's health outpatients.
* Experience of working with Gynaecology/Maternity/Obstetric/Urology patients.
* Documented evidence of CPD, in accordance with HPC recommendations.
* Experience of working as part of a uni-professional and multi-professional team.
* Advice, supervision, appraisal, training, and support to more junior staff, support staff, and students.
* Experience of audit/research.
* Experience with chronic pain patients.
* Postgraduate training in a specialist field demonstrating advanced knowledge and treatment of complex pelvic health conditions.
* Evidence of self-directed learning.
* Appropriate post-registration NHS experience.
* Experience of sole working as part of an out-of-hours orthopedic weekend service.
* Member of an appropriate specialist interest group such as POGP.
* Evidence of ability to continue postgraduate training and development to MSc level.
* Leadership training.
* Evidence of research experience.
* Experience with QI methodology.
* Experience setting up a new service.
* Experience of line management of junior members of staff.
Skills
* Good knowledge of current best practice in physiotherapy in the relevant setting e.g., MSK/pain/maternity/obstetric/urology.
* Expert knowledge of relevant Women's health conditions.
* Specialist MSK skills in OPD/Maternity/Obstetric/Urology areas.
* Understanding and application of risk management.
* Understanding of the legal responsibilities of the profession and the associated code of ethics.
* Evidence of ability to demonstrate leadership and supervisory skills.
* Ability to demonstrate expert skills in assessment and treatment of patients in line with current practice and research.
* Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for service delivery and demonstrate evidence of its application such as audit and SOP.
* Experience of service improvement work.
* Ability to organise and prioritise own and more junior staff's workload and supervise support staff in this field.
* Ability to work autonomously and set own priorities and support other staff in this field.
* Demonstrate understanding and previous participation in activity to support the clinical governance agenda.
* In-depth knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the client group.
* Ability to demonstrate flexibility and reliability.
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
Knowledge & Qualifications
* Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy.
* Member of the Health Professions Council.
* To have clinical experience in the relevant field at Band 7.
* Training of junior staff in relevant conditions, treatment, and management.
* Supervision and appraisal of junior staff.
* Evidence of recent and relevant managerial experience e.g., team leader.
* Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
* Member of a special interest group specialising in women's health.
* To have broad clinical experience.
* Training of students on placements.
Other
* Supervisory & appraisal skills of other staff including junior staff/support staff/students.
* Ability to pass on knowledge and deliver training both internally within the profession and externally to other staff groups.
* Committed to lifelong and self-directed learning.
* After induction, to be able to actively participate as an appraiser to the Trust IPR system.
* Committed to personal and team development.
* Ability to gain patients' trust and engender confidence & feeling of safety in patients about their care.
* Ability to present information both orally and in writing in a clear and logical manner.
* Ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes.
* Fully IT literate with IM&T skills to use a range of applications to support workload.
* Ability to cope with working in a busy or stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients/carers.
* Able to carry out moderate to intense physical effort throughout the working day and carry out concurrent activities.
* Commitment to non-discriminatory practice.
* Understanding and compliance with Data Protection.
* Member of a relevant specific interest group.
Personal Qualities
* Flexible approach.
* Reliable.
* Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
* Ability to problem solve and manage change.
* Ability to work under pressure.
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.
£59,490 to £66,239 a year per annum inc pro rata.
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