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Senior MSK Physiotherapist (Deputy Lead)
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Job Description: Senior MSK Physiotherapist, Deputy Lead
Location: Cromwell Hospital, London, SW5 0TU
Position: Permanent
Salary: Competitive salary
Hours: Full Time – 37.5 hours, including late and early shifts
About the Role
We make health happen. Working as our Senior MSK Physiotherapist, Deputy Lead, you’ll provide assessment and treatment for adults with MSK conditions and may also include some older teenage patients through implementation of specialist MSK treatments to maximize their rehabilitation outcomes.
As Deputy Lead MSK Physiotherapist, you will support the Lead MSK Physiotherapist in the operational and clinical leadership of the service. You will deputise in their absence, providing day-to-day clinical oversight, caseload support, and contributing to service delivery, performance, and patient flow. You will be actively involved in service development initiatives, audit, and quality improvement to ensure high standards of care and continuous service enhancement. You will be expected to establish and maintain efficient communication within the multi-disciplinary team (both internal and external) to ensure a holistic and complete duty of care. This includes verbal, non-verbal, and written communication, both in expression and active listening, to facilitate accurate comprehension of information.
Responsibilities
- Be independently responsible for the Physiotherapy management of your patient load and to practice as an accountable professional using reflective practice and clinical reasoning in undertaking specialist assessment in order to provide an individualized treatment program for each patient.
- Obtain informed, valid consent on an ongoing basis which endeavors to keep them involved in their own health care plan. This includes education to support ongoing management.
- Provide programs of care for the MSK patients in your care through assessment and implementation of specialist MSK treatments in order to maximize their rehabilitation outcomes.
- Represent and advocate for your patients’ needs within the multidisciplinary team, including attending MDT meetings as required.
- Provide appropriate information, education, and support for your client group.
- Comply with confidentiality policies as set out by Cromwell Hospital (CH), HCPC and the CSP.
- Respect a patient’s right to be chaperoned and appropriately implement the hospital chaperone policy.
- Accept accountability for your clinical and non-clinical actions.
- Maintain accurate, comprehensive, and timely patient treatment records.
- Manage clinical risk within your caseload at all times and ensure potential clinical risk is effectively communicated and managed.
- Promote dignity, privacy, and safety at all times, with particular consideration of the patient’s cultural, spiritual, and personal needs and preferences.
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Key Skills/Qualifications
- Degree in physiotherapy
- HCPC Registration
- Enhanced DBS clearance
- CSP Membership
- Member of special interest group
- Further qualifications in one or more of the following is desirable: MSK, sports rehabilitation, shockwave therapy, acupuncture, TMJ physiotherapy, and/or alternatively Male & Female Health.
- Proven knowledge, experience, competence, and confidence in MSK conditions
- Knowledge and experience in fitting Orthopaedic/ MSK braces and other relevant items
- Confident and able to work unsupervised
- Sound clinical reasoning skills
- Commitment to multi-disciplinary teamwork
- Evidence of CPD / record of mandatory training
- Knowledge of the Care Standards Act and Care and Quality Commission Requirements.
- Knowledge of Quality Assurance tools.
- Strong organizational and planning skills, including risk management.
- Knowledge of health and safety issues in a therapy setting
- UK healthcare experience
- Proficient in the use of a PC, including the use of software and systems.
- Previous experience working in a private MSK setting in the UK
Benefits
- Payment of professional registration fees
- Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- An enhanced pension plan, life insurance, and income protection
- Discounted access to online gym sessions
- Subsidised staff canteen
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Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Get in touch or apply today!
For a confidential chat, please email adele.orchard@bupa.com within our recruitment team.
Time Type: Full time
Job Area: Clinical Services
Locations: Cromwell Hospital London
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