Senior Sports Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are dedicated to delivering the highest level of patient care, in the most efficient and cost-effective way, with re-investment to ensure services are sustainable. We are looking for well-organised MSK Clinicians, to deliver quality clinical care for patients with MSK conditions. Whilst undertaking comprehensive assessment and diagnosis of patients with a wide variety of physical and emotional needs, you must formulate, deliver, review and progress individual treatment programmes and ensure effective treatment, specialist advice and timely discharge are achieved.

Join our motivated, ambitious, and fast-growing team. We focus on competency, developing talent and offer great flexibility. You’ll be registered with the HCPC or equivalent regulator (as professional background dictates) and be qualified as a clinician that works within MSK practice.

We are committed to a multi-professional workforce based on competency and welcome applications from Physiotherapists, Osteopaths, Sports Therapists and Rehab Therapists. If you’re able to manage a varied caseload of MSK patients, committed to CPD and have the desire to develop yourself and the service, with a keen eye on improving patient care, then we’d like to hear from you.

Why work for Connect Health?

We are dedicated to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and rewarding our colleagues. We continue to reward our staff with competitive salaries and a great range of employee benefits. These include:

· A minimum of 5% of your hours is bespoke personal development time

· A proven roadmap to Consultant-level practice for those that wish to develop this level of capability.

· Access to an internal network of Consultant clinicians (medical and AHPs) that provide leadership, educational, research and clinical support.

· Access to the full content (live and recorded sessions) of the Connect Clinical Education Academy

· Access to support and engagement with our entire MDT clinical workforce via

o Emergency clinical on call rota

o Clinical supervision

o Coaching and mentoring

o Online clinical resource and chat network

o Internal conferences and study days

o Clinical support tools/pathways

· Up to 30 days holiday (plus public holidays)

· option to buy additional annual leave

· an additional day off for your birthday

· online discounts portal

· employer pension contributions

· salary sacrifice schemes

· an employee assistance programme

· performance related pay rewards

· team building/away days

· reimbursement of professional body membership fees for clinicians

These benefits are our way of saying thank you to our colleagues.

“The best thing about Connect Health? For me it’s the opportunity to develop and be part of an organisation that aren’t afraid to innovate whilst keeping the patient at the centre of everything we do.” – Connect Health MSK Clinician

Person Specification

The ideal applicant will have

Essential

• Previous experience in delivering MSK services with tangible results.
• Current valid registration with your relevant professional body or equivalent regulator (HCPC, GOsC, SST or BASraT)
• A keen and enthusiastic clinician with a commitment to providing excellent, personalised care.
• An understanding of the impact of MSK pain in the wider community and how collaborative working across the local system enables prevention and addresses health inequalities
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner, within scope of practice and deliver a quality clinical service meeting the clinical and operational needs of the MSK service with senior support as required.
• To contribute to the development of, and promote a positive and dynamic image and culture to both internal and external stakeholders. At all times striving to reflect and encourage our core value behaviours
• To develop and foster productive relationships with local stakeholder groups, charities, GPs, and other potentially productive links.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Connect Health Group Limited

Address

Wolsey House

Wolsey Road

Hemel Hempstead

HP2 4TU

Employer's website

https://www.connecthealth.co.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)