Band 7 Enhanced Practice Physiotherapist - Spinal Interface
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the University Hospitals Dorset MSK Therapy Team for a part time band 7 enhanced practice physiotherapist.
This role would involve working in a supported clinical role as a spinal interface clinician within the DMSK spinal service. This will involve using enhanced level of practice skills in the assessment, diagnosis and shared decision making for patients with spinal pain or pathology. This post would be supported by our team of established spinal advanced practitioners, and involve responsibilities for education and supervision within the wider MSK therapy team including clinical supervision.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in an innovative and growing service, providing the highest quality of care for patients and leading the development of a growing and evolving service to shape it for the future.
Furthermore, this is an opportunity to gain specialist knowledge and advanced clinical skills in the management of spinal pain.
Location: Poole Hospital
Main duties of the job
To take a clinical leadership role in the delivery of therapy services to MSK therapy patients treated at University Hospitals Dorset and within the DMSK surgical interface service.
This post will predominantly involve the delivery of outpatient clinical care for the spinal DMSK service.
The post holder will provide skilled leadership and responsibility for service development, the setting and monitoring of standards of practice and implement policy and policy changes in own clinical area. Furthermore, will participate and lead quality improvement projects across MSK Therapy and make recommendations to the team and service leads.
About us
What we offer:
Management support to continue learning, with support from both the MSK Therapy Service and DMSK leadership structures.
This role involves enhanced practice, and the successful candidate will be supported in the training and delivery of enhanced practice skills to support their core practice. This may include imaging requesting and interpretation skills.
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Christchurch Hospital and Poole Hospital
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree in Physiotherapy
* Continued professional development diary including evidence of reflective practice, in service training and courses attended
* Post-graduate courses relevant to the clinical speciality
* Recognised post-graduate qualification e.g MSc or equivalent experience
* Post graduate courses or experience in leadership
* NHS QI or research qualification
* Achieved or working towards independent prescriber registration
* Previous experience as a Non-Medical referrer for imaging
Experience
* Broad range of experience at Band 5 level
* Experience at Band 6 level
* Experience of managing other therapists
* Audit, research and quality improvement
* Student supervision/clinical education
* Previous experience at Band 7 level
* Evidence of leading robust service improvements
* Specialist experience in managing complex spinal MSK pathologies
Skills
* Skills for the assessment and treatment for a range of complex conditions
* Able to communicate and receive complex and/or sensitive information
* Skills in the ordering and interpretation of spinal imaging
* Skills in the ordering and interpretation of blood results
Other
* Able to demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning and select from a range of treatment options
* Committed to providing high quality care as demanded through the Clinical Governance Agenda
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.
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