Job summary
We are delighted to be able to advertise a full-time permanent
Band 7 Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Lower Limb Rehabilitation post within
the MSK Outpatients Therapies service at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust. This
highly specialist post will initially be based predominantly at Pontefract
Hospital but will involve working Trust wide.
We are looking for a highly motivated, hardworking and
innovative Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist with specialist experience in
the delivery of lower limb rehabilitation. The candidate should have a
specialist interest in trauma and orthopaedics, with exceptional knowledge and skills
in the assessment and management of acute injuries.
The role will assume that of senior specialist physiotherapist
in Lower Limb Rehabilitation, having overall responsibility for the clinical
delivery of lower limb physiotherapy in partnership with other members of the
team (service lead, team leaders, clinical specialists and advanced
practitioners) across the trust within this specialist area, ensuring parity of
pathways and services cross site.
We at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust have led significant changes
with advanced and extended scope practice in this area and contribute
substantially to the delivery of the MDT outputs. We are committed to supporting you in your
personal and professional development to expand your knowledge in this
specialism for the benefit of the patient and the service.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be responsible for the
clinical management of the lower limb physiotherapy service and be expected to
manage the day-to-day organisation of the gym, including assisting/deputising
for the team leader where appropriate.
You will be expected to coordinate Physiotherapy input to
patients referred into the Mid Yorkshire Teaching hospitals lower limb Physiotherapy
service. This will include hip, knee, foot,
ankle, trauma, multi trauma and elective Orthopaedics. You will carry a complex
clinical caseload including assessment, management, and rehabilitation of a
variety of acute and chronic lower limb presentations. This will include
ensuring patients are able to return to function, employment, and sport.
You would have the opportunity to work with Advanced
Physiotherapy Practitioners on competencies required to deliver an extended
scope Physiotherapy role in an orthopaedic lower limb clinic alongside
consultants and/or APPs dependent upon skills, training level and service
requirements.
You would also be required to provide highly specialist,
evidence-based advice, teaching and supervision to members of the Physiotherapy
team, including the wider lower limb team and other colleagues as appropriate.
The role will be important in driving active participation
in audit and research within the Physiotherapy team to ensure services provide
the best possible outcomes for patients.
About us
We provide care and support to over a million people in
Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our
three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of
innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our
workforce.
We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful
and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid
Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.
We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm
irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and
gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation,
or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to
someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the
LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently
under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from
members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all
applicants are treated fairly and consistently.
We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable
guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.
We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If
you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our
patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Duties
-
Be
professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects
of own work, including the management of patients in your care.
-
Ensure a high standard of clinical care for the
patients under your management.
-
Accept sole clinical responsibility for a
designated caseload of patients, and organise this effectively and efficiently
with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
-
Undertake the specialist and comprehensive
assessment of patients referred from a variety
of sources, including those with a complex presentation, using
investigative and analytical skills.
-
Formulate individualised management and
treatment plans, using clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range of
advanced treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of
care in conjunction with the patient and carers.
- Plan a care programme for individual patients in
conjunction with other professional staff within the multidisciplinary team
(MDT).
- Provide specialist clinical expertise to
colleagues within the team and referrers to the service.
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
to maximise rehabilitation potential and ensure understanding of condition.
- Communication skills of persuasion, motivation and explanation to encourage
patients to undertake their treatment programme.
- Use verbal and non-verbal communication skills to
gain informed consent with patients where there will often be barriers to
effective communication e.g. loss of hearing, altered perception, expressive or
receptive dysphasia, pain, fear.
-
Assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and
have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who may lack
capacity to consent to treatment.
-
Participate in appropriate on call rota as
required.
Clinical Practice
- To coordinate Physiotherapy input to patients referred into the Mid Yorkshire Teaching hospitals lower limb service. Referrals are accepted from GP, ED, and Orthopaedic teams both within and outside of the Mid Yorkshire area. This will include hip, knee, foot, ankle, trauma, multi trauma and elective Orthopaedics.
- To take a lead role in the delivery of an effective, evidenced based Physiotherapy service for those with lower limb musculoskeletal conditions working alongside Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioners within this speciality and the wider lower limb team.
- To carry a complex clinical caseload including assessment, management, and rehabilitation of a variety of acute and chronic presentations. This will include ensuring patients are able to return to function, employment, and sport.
- To monitor and develop clinical pathways between the in-patient elective orthopaedic and trauma service and cross site outpatient Physiotherapy services to ensure continuity of care.
- To work alongside Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioners to ensure highly specialist and evidence-based rehabilitation classes and 1:1 sessions for lower limb patients within this speciality to ensure the best possible outcome for patients.
- To work with Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioners on competencies required to deliver an extended scope Physiotherapy role in an elective orthopaedic lower limb clinic alongside consultants and/or APPs dependent upon skills, training level and service requirements.
Education
- To provide highly specialist, evidence-based advice, teaching and supervision to members of the Physiotherapy team, including the wider lower limb team and other colleagues as appropriate.
- To collaborate with the lower limb team in developing and delivering the MSK physiotherapy in service training program.
- To be involved in/lead problem patient sessions where required.
Leadership
- Responsible for the clinical management of the lower limb physiotherapy service, responding to the changing needs of the service including direct staff supervision.
- To manage the day-to-day organisation of the gym, including assisting/deputising for the team leader where appropriate.
- To participate in managing capacity and demand of the lower limb service cross-site and respond as required.
- To act as a representative at both lower limb governance meetings and MSK clinical governance to drive the lower limb service forward.
- To produce annual objectives for the team/service in collaboration with the wider lower limb team.
- To collaborate with the wider lower limb team to ensure parity of treatment pathways and waiting lists across trust sites.
Evidence, Research and Development
- To drive active participation in audit and research within the Physiotherapy team to ensure services provide the best possible outcomes for patients.
- To work alongside colleagues in the trauma and orthopaedic department and within therapies to participate in relevant research projects.
- To contribute to developing and ensuring completion of annual audit plans for the lower limb service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Duties
-
Be
professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects
of own work, including the management of patients in your care.
-
Ensure a high standard of clinical care for the
patients under your management.
-
Accept sole clinical responsibility for a
designated caseload of patients, and organise this effectively and efficiently
with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
-
Undertake the specialist and comprehensive
assessment of patients referred from a variety
of sources, including those with a complex presentation, using
investigative and analytical skills.
-
Formulate individualised management and
treatment plans, using clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range of
advanced treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of
care in conjunction with the patient and carers.
- Plan a care programme for individual patients in
conjunction with other professional staff within the multidisciplinary team
(MDT).
- Provide specialist clinical expertise to
colleagues within the team and referrers to the service.
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers
to maximise rehabilitation potential and ensure understanding of condition.
- Communication skills of persuasion, motivation and explanation to encourage
patients to undertake their treatment programme.
- Use verbal and non-verbal communication skills to
gain informed consent with patients where there will often be barriers to
effective communication e.g. loss of hearing, altered perception, expressive or
receptive dysphasia, pain, fear.
-
Assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and
have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who may lack
capacity to consent to treatment.
-
Participate in appropriate on call rota as
required.
Clinical Practice
- To coordinate Physiotherapy input to patients referred into the Mid Yorkshire Teaching hospitals lower limb service. Referrals are accepted from GP, ED, and Orthopaedic teams both within and outside of the Mid Yorkshire area. This will include hip, knee, foot, ankle, trauma, multi trauma and elective Orthopaedics.
- To take a lead role in the delivery of an effective, evidenced based Physiotherapy service for those with lower limb musculoskeletal conditions working alongside Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioners within this speciality and the wider lower limb team.
- To carry a complex clinical caseload including assessment, management, and rehabilitation of a variety of acute and chronic presentations. This will include ensuring patients are able to return to function, employment, and sport.
- To monitor and develop clinical pathways between the in-patient elective orthopaedic and trauma service and cross site outpatient Physiotherapy services to ensure continuity of care.
- To work alongside Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioners to ensure highly specialist and evidence-based rehabilitation classes and 1:1 sessions for lower limb patients within this speciality to ensure the best possible outcome for patients.
- To work with Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioners on competencies required to deliver an extended scope Physiotherapy role in an elective orthopaedic lower limb clinic alongside consultants and/or APPs dependent upon skills, training level and service requirements.
Education
- To provide highly specialist, evidence-based advice, teaching and supervision to members of the Physiotherapy team, including the wider lower limb team and other colleagues as appropriate.
- To collaborate with the lower limb team in developing and delivering the MSK physiotherapy in service training program.
- To be involved in/lead problem patient sessions where required.
Leadership
- Responsible for the clinical management of the lower limb physiotherapy service, responding to the changing needs of the service including direct staff supervision.
- To manage the day-to-day organisation of the gym, including assisting/deputising for the team leader where appropriate.
- To participate in managing capacity and demand of the lower limb service cross-site and respond as required.
- To act as a representative at both lower limb governance meetings and MSK clinical governance to drive the lower limb service forward.
- To produce annual objectives for the team/service in collaboration with the wider lower limb team.
- To collaborate with the wider lower limb team to ensure parity of treatment pathways and waiting lists across trust sites.
Evidence, Research and Development
- To drive active participation in audit and research within the Physiotherapy team to ensure services provide the best possible outcomes for patients.
- To work alongside colleagues in the trauma and orthopaedic department and within therapies to participate in relevant research projects.
- To contribute to developing and ensuring completion of annual audit plans for the lower limb service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in relevant therapy profession.
- Registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Have or be working towards Masters degree or equivalent.
Desirable
- Relevant clinical Post-Graduate qualification.
- Management course
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of comprehensive clinical experience.
- Experience of relevant clinical setting
- Supervision of more junior and support staff and students
Desirable
- Broad general experience
- Participation in audit/evaluation/research.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Promotion of role of therapies.
- Moving and Handling
- Forward thinking
- Ability to pass on knowledge and skills within both formal and informal environments
- Ability to present information, written and orally in a clear and logical manner
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
- Understanding of Clinical Governance and its implications for services
- Working knowledge of the NHS
Desirable
- Teaching/Presentation skills
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Confident
- Able to work both independently and to promote MDT working
- Ability to motivate
- Committed to personal and team development
- Ability to cope working in a stressful environment
- Ability to cope with emotional or aggressive patients and carers
- Leadership qualities
- Adaptable
- Motivated
Desirable
- Able to cope with demands of the patient group
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in relevant therapy profession.
- Registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Have or be working towards Masters degree or equivalent.
Desirable
- Relevant clinical Post-Graduate qualification.
- Management course
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of comprehensive clinical experience.
- Experience of relevant clinical setting
- Supervision of more junior and support staff and students
Desirable
- Broad general experience
- Participation in audit/evaluation/research.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Promotion of role of therapies.
- Moving and Handling
- Forward thinking
- Ability to pass on knowledge and skills within both formal and informal environments
- Ability to present information, written and orally in a clear and logical manner
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
- Understanding of Clinical Governance and its implications for services
- Working knowledge of the NHS
Desirable
- Teaching/Presentation skills
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Confident
- Able to work both independently and to promote MDT working
- Ability to motivate
- Committed to personal and team development
- Ability to cope working in a stressful environment
- Ability to cope with emotional or aggressive patients and carers
- Leadership qualities
- Adaptable
- Motivated
Desirable
- Able to cope with demands of the patient group
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
