Job summary
We have exciting opportunities in our MSK Outpatient Physiotherapy teams for a static Band 5 Physiotherapist, in Solihull Community MSK Service, Solihull Hospital MSK and Heartlands Hospital MSK.
Our teams are friendly and welcoming teams with passion to provide high quality care through Evidence Based learning. We believe in maximising the potential of each member of the team based on their individual needs, and alongside National agendas such as FCP.
We believe now is an exciting time to be part of the MSK Service, with multiple opportunities to provide outstanding and individualised care to patients within the community in which they live.
The role will involve assessing and treating patients from various referral resources and supervising junior staff and students, with opportunities to lead classes and contributing to service development initiatives. We treat adults and in the Community we treat some paediatric patients.
In the current challenging healthcare environment, the ideal candidate will be flexible and adaptable, with excellent communication skills, providing mainly face to face appointments.
Main duties of the job
To hold responsibility for own case load and be responsible for a defined area of the service, working without direct supervision. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case conferences. Access to advice and support from senior physiotherapists is available.
To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and maintain associated records.
To assist with supervision, education and assessment of the performance of physiotherapy students; this would be to a graduate standard and involve working with universities to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification.
To assist with supervision, education and co-ordination of generic therapy assistants, and junior therapy staff.
Undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and teams clinical practice. Make recommendations to clinical lead/manager of service for changes to practice by the team. May lead the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service protocols.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. * BSc or Equivalent in Physiotherapy
2. * HCPC Registered
3. * Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
4. * MSK Work Based Training
5. * Evidence of on-going CPD
Experience
Essential
6. * NHS experience
7. * Band 5 rotations to include MSK Outpatients
8. * Evidence of participating delivering training