Senior Physiotherapist / Osteopath, Chronic Pain

Job summary

Excellent opportunity to join our persistent pain team, You will work alongside our other long term conditions services including ME/CFS and long covid. Making us a truly multidisciplinary team. Working to identify client-centered needs led to ensure progress through the appropriate care pathway.

You will work as an integral member of the pain management team to provide an inter-disciplinary approach to the management of complex chronic pain clients.

You will manage your own caseload of patients with complex musculoskeletal and chronic pain conditions. Provide advanced clinical assessment and evidence-based management and treatment for these patients

You will work as an autonomous practitioner without direct supervision. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review and MDT meetings. Access to advice and support from a specialist physiotherapist is available if required, clinical work is not routinely evaluated.

You will deliver advanced, personalised physiotherapy/osteopathy treatment to patients with highly complex biopsychosocial presentations as individual appointments and group sessions. liaise with other teams

Main duties of the job

• To undertake skilled assessment using advanced clinical reasoning skills and a variety of assessment techniques to provide accurate diagnosis.
• Manage own caseload, using highly specialist knowledge and skills as an autonomous practitioner, including maintenance of comprehensive records.
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable as an autonomous practitioner for all aspects of your own professional activities, to carry a clinical caseload of patients for whom you are responsible.
• To keep up to date with evidence base, current national and developments and utilise this knowledge and best practice.
• To maintain a high-level clinical skill set within the team to ensure high quality and compassionate care for all patients.
• To ensure all care delivered empowers patients to recover their independence at the earliest opportunity.

About us

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.

Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.

The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.