Lead Physiotherapist

Job summary

Experienced Physiotherapist wanted to support our physiotherapy team joining our caring Practices and one of the largest Health Boards in Wales.

We are a cluster of GP Practices across the South Monmouthshire county which serves a population of c.50,000.

Monmouthshire has it all - a mix of beautiful market towns and award winning rural areas within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Not only our the GP Practices of Monmouthshire a great place to work, Monmouthshire is an amazing place to live with brilliant country primary and secondary schools, a fantastic welcoming community ethos and easy transport routes to Cardiff, Bristol, Bath and Gloucester to name but a few.

For sometime the practices of Monmouthshire have been diversifying their teams to include many different Allied Health Professionals of different specialities and are delighted to be now able to look to support the widespread adoption of the Physiotherapist role across all our practice sites.

The practices are used to training GPs and also pharmacists and are now keen to use this skill set to help support Physiotherapists when needed. We, however, also wish to have the support of an experienced physiotherapist who can support the new band 7 physiotherapist(s) in their new role working one morning a week alongside the NCN team.

Main duties of the job

The Lead Physiotherapist will encourage the band 7 physiotherapists to develop and enhance their skill set with regular personal appraisals and opportunities for development depending on agreed preferences by the band 7 Physiotherapist, NCN team and practice teams.

To thrive in this challenging, exciting, and demanding role you will require commitment, resilience, and an eagerness to support others to succeed.

You will need to have confidence to communicate and influence groups and individuals at all levels while remaining committed to providing excellent patient care.

The Lead Physiotherapist will be based within the NCN team, supporting the band 7 physiotherapist(s) across the five GP Practices.

The Lead Physiotherapist will ensure that the band 7 physiotherapist provides both telephone appointments and face to face appointments for patients presenting to primary care dependent on their agreed competencies.

The Lead Physiotherapist will attend the quarterly NCN meetings.

The Physiotherapist will attend regular meetings with the band 7 physiotherapist(s) and the NCN team as is deemed necessary.

About us

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.