Trainee/ Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner - Pain Management

• Key Duties
  • As an Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner (APP), you will provide a high level of clinical expertise and autonomous decision-making, determining the most appropriate course of action for patients’ care.
  • This may include assessing and managing patients without prior review or direct contact with a Pain Management Consultant.
  • You will use advanced clinical reasoning skills to undertake comprehensive assessments of presenting problems, critically interpret clinical findings, formulate working and differential diagnoses, and develop, communicate and implement individualised management plans.
  • These plans will consider the person’s needs, goals and preferences, available local services, and relevant local and national guidelines and policies.
  • You will promote shared decision-making and support individuals to take an active role in decisions about their care.
  • This will include helping patients identify the priorities and outcomes that are important to them, explaining available treatment and management options in clear, non-technical language, and discussing the potential risks, benefits and consequences of each option to support informed decision-making.
  • You will provide clinical and strategic leadership within the service, contributing to and taking responsibility for patient safety, quality improvement, education and training, clinical governance and service development.
  • You will act as a clinical role model, supporting colleagues to develop their knowledge, skills and confidence in the assessment and management of people living with persistent pain.
  • A key element of the role will be to lead the development and delivery of an education programme for primary care staff, with a focus on biopsychosocial assessment and management of musculoskeletal and pain-related conditions.
  • The programme will aim to enhance clinical knowledge and confidence within primary care, promote appropriate self-management and early intervention, and support the effective and efficient use of Pain Management Service resources.

• Application Process

  • Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
  • We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist.
  • Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

• Trust Values

  • The Trust is committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development.
  • We are committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.
  • We operate Zero Tolerance to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.
  • We will make reasonable adjustments to ensure our recruitment and selection process is accessible to all.
  • Flexible Working applications will be considered.
  • The Trust operates a No Smoking Policy.

• Reasonable Adjustments

  • Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact a member of Recruitment Services on 01254 732075 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

• Additional Information

  • Please Note: new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

For further details / informal visits contact:

• Name: Karen Oliver or Gemma Gumbley
• Job title: Interim Head of IMPReS
• Email address: karen.oliver@elht.nhs.uk
• Telephone number: 01706 235391