Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Musculoskeletal and Staff Physiotherapy Service Team Lead
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Job Overview
Are you an experienced and enthusiastic Musculoskeletal Outpatients Physiotherapist looking to take the next step in your career?
This fixed-term opportunity offers an exciting chance to lead and develop the Staff Physiotherapy Service alongside the Musculoskeletal Outpatients Service within the Brownsword Therapies Centre. You’ll play a key role in shaping high-quality, patient-centred care while supporting and inspiring a dedicated multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will:
- Plan, co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate the outpatient Physiotherapy service on a day-to-day basis.
- Provide supervision, training and appraisals to the outpatient Physiotherapy team.
- Undertake advanced assessment and treatments to patients who may have diverse presentations.
- Manage the Staff Physiotherapy Service, assessing and treating staff members presenting with musculoskeletal conditions.
- Report on progress of ongoing service projects relating to local, divisional and trust wide objectives.
- Deputise for Deputy Head of Therapies - Outpatients in their absence.
Working for our organisation
At the RUH we're proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centered care we pride ourselves on.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.
We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.
Person specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Advanced knowledge of broad range of condition in specialist area
- Experience of supervising more junior staff/students
- Involvement in audit, research and understanding quality issues
- Knowledge of validated assessment tools and outcome measures
- Knowledge and experience of complying with trust policies
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of appraisal, supervision and teaching of Band 5/6 staff, assistants and students.
- Training in clinical supervision and/or leadership skills
- Experience of implementing change
- Experience in staff recruitment and interviewing techniques
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- Degree in Physiotherapy
- HCPC Registration
- Evidence of CPD
- Attendance of relevant postgraduate courses
- Competent IT skills
Desirable criteria
- CSP Member
- Involvement in Special Clinical Interest Groups
Specific Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- To remain updated with professional and evidence-based practice and new research
- Effective presentation skills
- To understand the legal responsibilities of the profession
- To be able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner and to keep accurate and legible patient notes
- To be able to comprehend and work within all the Trusts’ policies of clinical governance, data protection, auditing and health and safety
- To be experienced in performing specialist assessments and treatments with patients with a variety of specific conditions
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Desirable criteria
- Experience of running internal/external courses
Physical Skills & Emotional Effort
Essential criteria
- To have experience of working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers
- To carry out assessments and treatments of patients for several periods with moderate to intense physical effort whilst carrying out concurrent activities
- To deal sensitively with patients who have high levels of anxiety and aggression caused by pain, dementia or limited mobility
Please note
- Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered unless an alternative right to work solution can be provided. Candidates requiring sponsorship (or will need sponsorship at the end of a current visa e.g. those with graduate visas) should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying: Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name: James Crossfield
- Job title: Deputy Head of Therapies - Outpatients
- Email address: james.crossfield@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01225821241
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