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Site: Lakeside Mental Health Unit - West Middlesex Hospital
Town: Isleworth
Salary: £42,938.70 - £50,697 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
Job overview
As a band 6 MSK physiotherapist, you will have the opportunity to continue developing your clinical skills for practice. Participation in our in-house development program will also equip you with skills and attributes essential to the rest of your career. You will be fully integrated into a larger team with a focus on delivering high-quality care at the right time and place.
As the successful candidate, you will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong leadership skills, and good organization skills: able to plan your own work but also work effectively within a team. You will carry a varied caseload of musculoskeletal complaints with a view to utilizing all treatment and care options as appropriate, with the support of a named supervisor.
Main duties of the job
To carry out effective and appropriate assessments using knowledge and skills combined with clinical reasoning and also to contribute towards accurate diagnosis.
1. Work with patients to identify and agree treatment goals delivering patient-centered care based on assessment outcomes, demonstrating a good knowledge of the complex interaction of risk, safety, patient choice, shared decision making, independence, areas of conflict and eligibility for the services.
2. Use communication, reasoning, and negotiation skills to establish a working partnership with patients, families, and carers identifying barriers to communication.
3. Plan and lead patient group sessions as clinically relevant.
4. Address all risk areas associated with individual patients’ ability to function.
5. Contribute to effective discharge planning.
6. Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions/treatments using outcome measures.
7. Represent the Physiotherapy Service within the multidisciplinary team and participate in relevant team/network meetings, clinics, and contribute to the discussion and planning of patient care.
8. Work with assistants and technical instructors regarding clinical caseloads and provide necessary support on clinical issues.
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from the South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow, and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent.
* Current HPC registration.
* Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
* Relevant special interest group membership.
* Working towards MSc or MACP membership.
Experience
* Significant post-registration clinical experience in musculoskeletal care in the NHS or equivalent experience.
* Significant recent practical experience as a band 5 Physiotherapist in the NHS or equivalent experience.
* Broad range of band 5 care clinical specialties including Musculoskeletal and Orthopaedics.
* Out-patient musculoskeletal physiotherapy to include consultant, GP, and Rheumatology referrals and orthopaedic inpatients.
* Previous experience at Band 6 level.
Skills and Abilities
* Able to present information, written and orally in a clear and logical manner.
* Experience of committee membership e.g. safety committee.
Knowledge
* Understanding and experience of quality and audit.
* Remains updated with relevant professional practice and new research/research papers.
* Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust’s policies of data protection, equal opportunities, and Health and Safety to meet the differing needs of the diverse patient population.
As an employee of West London NHS Trust, you have a responsibility to maintain a sound understanding of, and a commitment to uphold the National Health Service values and principles set out in the NHS Constitution.
We reserve the right to close adverts prior to the closing date stated should we receive a high volume of applications.
By applying for this post you are agreeing to West London NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which can take between 4-8 weeks. After which your information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system (ESR).
Please ensure you include email addresses for your referees which MUST be at supervisory or managerial capacity covering the last 3 years of employment to date to avoid delay in the recruitment process.
West London NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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.
At West London NHS Trust, we want to support you to build a career you can be proud of, and this starts before your first day with us. Our people live our values every day as they deliver, manage, and work to improve our services to patients, carers, families, and other professionals.
We’re committed to making our recruitment process clear and efficient. It’s in everyone’s interest that we get the very best people on board as soon as we can.
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