Pelvic Health Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist
Band 6
Main area: Physiotherapy
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 20.5 hours per week
Job ref: 153-SP04382
Department name: UHD - General Recruitment
Site: Poole Hospital
Town: Bournemouth
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pa pr
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/04/2025 23:59
University Hospitals Dorset is a three-site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches, you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth, and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming, and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
As a Trust, we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
Specialist Physiotherapist, Pelvic Health Band 6 University Hospitals Dorset (Cross site) Part time up to 0.55 WTE / 20.5 hours per week
Christchurch and Poole are friendly, welcoming hospitals where the PH physiotherapists are part of the outpatient physiotherapy team and well-integrated into the MDT and Maternity services delivering care to Gynae, Uro-gynae, Colorectal, Men’s Health, Antenatal MSK, Perinatal Pelvic Health, including post-natal in and outpatient work which will be at the new BEACH maternity unit Royal Bournemouth site. You will have a keen interest to develop your skills in all aspects of Pelvic Health.
We can offer you:
* Training opportunities and extensive clinical experience
* Leadership and management training opportunities
* Coaching and mentoring facilities
Base Location: Poole, Christchurch, and Royal Bournemouth Hospitals
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
You will:
* Provide evidence-based, specialist care to perinatal, urogynecology, male & colorectal patients.
* Contribute to key aspects of the service, mentoring of Band 5 and students and supporting the wider Pelvic Health Physiotherapy team, including cross-site and off-site working.
* Promote and deliver a high quality, evidence-based, customer-focused service
* Work within national and local guidelines, including working at off-site clinics
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree (BSc Hons Physiotherapy) or equivalent
* Current HCPC registered Physiotherapist
* Full or Affiliate member of POGP
Experience
* Experience working in NHS
* At least 2 years post-graduate physiotherapy experience
* Have had experience of Band 5-6 MSK outpatient Physiotherapy
* Experience of using electronic patient/service user record systems
* Proven advanced clinical assessment/ reasoning/ problem-solving skills within clinical area
* Have had some experience working as a Pelvic Health Physiotherapist in a professional setting
Technical skills competencies
* Highly motivated and reliable with the ability to motivate others
* Excellent time-management and organisational skills
* Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
* Demonstrate some digital competencies with a varied number of systems related to healthcare
* Be proficient in intimate examinations relevant to pelvic health physiotherapy
Knowledge
* Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions within Pelvic Health Physiotherapy
* Demonstrable knowledge of current relevant guidelines in Pelvic health
* Demonstrable professional development relevant to Pelvic Health
Other requirements specific to the role
* Willingness to attend external and internal CPD opportunities and to share this learning within the Pelvic Health Physiotherapy Team and wider MDT
* Ability to effectively manage available resources in the pursuit of quality service provision ensuring a safe environment
* Have completed courses for urinary and colorectal dysfunction and AN PN MSK and common symptoms [POGP or equivalent]
Personal attributes
* Flexible approach to their work - the ability to provide telephone, video, and face-to-face clinical interventions depending on clinical need
* Demonstrate experience of working within an NHS team
Language
* Able to speak English as necessary to undertake the role
Please note: Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.
This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst this vaccination is not a condition of employment we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Internal Candidates: staff employed prior to merger who voluntarily change jobs will be appointed to UHD terms and conditions.
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.
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