Specialist Physiotherapist

Job summary

Women's Health Band 6 Physiotherapist- Part Time

Ready to grow your career in Women's & Men's Health Physiotherapy?

Join our welcoming and highly supportive pelvic health team at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust and take the next step in a rewarding specialist career.

You'll work within a specialist multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality care to patients referred from GP practices, Gynaecology & Urology services, Obstetric & Colorectal Consultants, Specialist Nurses, and Midwives.

Assessment and treatment of pelvic girdle pain, urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse

Running groups - Pelvic health advice and Pelvic girdle pain

Supporting patients on maternity wards - pelvic health advice and mobility

Supporting patients on breast cancer surgical wards - advice and exercises post-op

Providing exercise guidance and discharge advice alongside experienced therapists

Essential experience: Musculoskeletal physiotherapy and ward-based working.Women's Health experience is desirable -- but not essential.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly, innovative, and passionate pelvic health team committed to delivering exceptional patient care while supporting your professional growth.

Interviews for this role will be conducted in person to assess relevant skills effectively.

Main duties of the job

As a specialist physiotherapist working with the women's and men's health physiotherapy team you will have an outpatient caseload of women's health patients; such as pelvic girdle pain, gynae and breast cancer patients. You will also work on the wards alongside our experienced band 4's offering advice and exercises to women post-partum, or post-breast cancer surgery.

To demonstrate women's health physiotherapy skills to manage patients referred to the service working in accordance with individual performance metrics

To ensure safe, efficient and effective delivery of patient focussed care in line with identified evidence-based practice, local and national standards

To work collaboratively within Multidisciplinary and Multi-agency Teams

To participate in delegated projects for service development with the team

To act autonomously in the assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality

To demonstrate a flexible approach to working in support of the whole in patient/outpatient team

To be available to provide Clinical Supervision

To guide support staff in the management and delivery of therapeutic care plans

About us

Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust's redeployment process.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more details regarding this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
• HCPC Registered
• Evidence of post graduate training/qualification relevant to clinical area -musculoskeletal physiotherapy and women's health physiotherapy

Desirable

• CSP member
• Member of CSP Specialist section - POGP

Experience

Desirable

• Ability to demonstrate working with regional/national networks

Experience

Essential

• Clinical experience working in musculoskeletal physiotherapy
• Experience of Multi-Disciplinary working
• Demonstrate active involvement in the audit process
• Experience of change management
• Experience of supervising and mentoring junior members of staff and pre-registration students
• Experience of developing staff and sharing knowledge

Desirable

• NHS experience working within Women's and Men's health

Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrate sound level of theoretical profession specific knowledge
• Evidence of current practices and developments within the field Women's and Men's health
• Sound knowledge of interventions relevant to clinical area
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of clinical governance including implications on service and audit

Key Skills

Essential

• Provide enhanced clinical care in line with professional registration, code of conduct and defined scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for decisions
• Flexible and adaptable to prioritise workload
• Demonstrate self-reflective practice and experience of supporting others with reflective practice through supervision or mentorship
• Ability to demonstrate good written, verbal and non- verbal communication skills
• Demonstrate ability to use evidence-based practice to inform clinical care
• Able to work as a team player/ independently
• Standard key board skills & the ability to use IT packages such as Word, Outlook, Power point & Excel

Other

Essential

• Awareness and respect for colleagues, patients and relatives cultural, religious and emotional needs and beliefs
• Able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trusts Values and Behaviours
• Be prepared to work across sites as and when required