Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 2 years (18.75hrs)
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 200-NN-6316450-KL-RB-Y
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Georges Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £70,387 - £80,465 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Physiotherapist (Spinal & Pain Management)
Band 8b
*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers
Job overview
Job title: Consultant Physiotherapist (Spinal & Pain Management)
Band: 8b
Hours of Work (pw): 18.75hrs (0.5FTE)
Speciality/Service: Therapies, MSK Physiotherapy
Base: Required to work at any of the Trust’s sites.
Accountable to: Chief AHP
Nature of Appointment: 0.5 FTE Permanent
Main duties of the job
The Consultant Practitioner will meet the requirements of the Centre for Advancing Practice’s framework and guidelines for consultant practitioner level practice
· The Consultant Practitioner will act as an expert practitioner, providing professional clinical leadership and developing advanced practice within their specialist area
· To provide consultancy and work across the four pillars of advanced practice (clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research) putting expertise in place across systems of health and social care
· To develop, facilitate and oversee education, audit, research, innovation and service improvement in advanced practice their specialist area
· 50% of the post holder’s time will be in clinical practice
· To contribute to the strategic direction and implementation of the corporate objectives and clinical strategy within the local service
· To proactively lead within the Division/Care Group/service, providing support, guidance and direction to achieve optimal clinical effectiveness, and financial outcomes
· To support the Division/Care Group/service to ensure that effective governance structure and processes are in place
Working for our organisation
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description for more information.
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Registered with HCPC UK
- • Master’s degree level in advanced practice or equivalent
- • Certified speciality courses
- • Recognised management or leadership course
Desirable criteria
- • Independent prescribing course if relevant for role
- • Teaching qualification
- • Credentialled as advanced practitioner in relevant specialist area e.g. NHSE Digital badge, full member of the MACP or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant leadership experience at band 8a (AP) level in an NHS organisation or equivalent
- • Expertise in relevant specialist area of practice with significant experience in advanced practice across the 4 pillars clinical, leadership, education, and research
- • Significant experience in planning activities and quality improvement projects resulting in improved outcomes
- • Experience in policy development and implementation
Desirable criteria
- • General business management experience
- • Experience of patient involvement and improving patient experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Highly developed specialist knowledge in spinal and pain management physiotherapy and formal training in specialist field
- • Demonstrable knowledge of risk management processes and clinical governance
- • Applied research methodology at post-graduate level
Desirable criteria
- • Training in quality improvement
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Expert communication skills in managing highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, and supporting people in making complex decisions
- • Able to make judgements involving highly complex facts where there may be conflicting information/opinion
- • Evidence of translation of research evidence into practice through guidance or policy authorship
- • Track record of knowledge dissemination through publication and conference presentation
- • Experience of gathering and analysing complex information/report writing
- • Excellent IT/digital skills
- • Evidence of leadership skills
Desirable criteria
- • Strategic planning skills
Management
Essential criteria
- • Department/staff management experience
- • Proven ability to manage complex and changing workload which includes the ability to identify and resolve conflicting priorities within tight timeframes
- • Evidence of the ability to manage within financial balance
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected].
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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
- Sue Baillie
- Job title
- Chief Allied Health Professional
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 725 4385
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