Job summary
- Main area
- MSK
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (covering Maternity leave)
- Hours
- Part time - 28 hours per week (working weekends and bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 844-6827636
- Employer
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Catheriens Health Centre
- Town
- Birkenhead
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Physiotherapist
Band 6
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
We are proud to support our Armed Forces Community as a Veteran Aware NHS Trust and are pleased to share that we recently achieved Bronze Award accreditation, in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We support the armed forces as an employer; recognising the experiences and skills ex-military personnel have gained through their service.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, forward thinking Specialist Physiotherapist who is keen to develop and advance their clinical skills within a friendly, supportive and innovative environment.
This is a full time permanent post with some evening clinic cover required
Main duties of the job
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust MSK Physiotherapy service provides a comprehensive range of treatments for patients presenting with a wide variety of MSK related complaints. We operate as part of the Wirral MSK triage service providing assessment and treatment of MSK conditions and referring back to triage for onward investigation where this is identified. We also receive referrals from secondary care with a mixture of orthopeadic, rheumatology and post-operative conditions. Working as an MSK Physiotherapist, you will be required to assess to a high standard and provide a range of quality and evidenced based interventions in a variety of community settings throughout the Wirral peninsula.
You must possess a degree in physiotherapy and be registered with the Health & Care Professions Council. You must also possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and have the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and other healthcare professionals.
Working for our organisation
The MSK service as a whole offers osteopathy, outpatient neurology, hand splinting and access to well-equipped patient gyms. We also have close links to the podiatry service for biomechanical assessments
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The position requires applicants to be able to work flexibly; therefore you must have access to your own transport for work purposes. This post provides an excellent opportunity for pro-active clinicians to consolidate their existing skills whilst developing new skills under the mentorship of an experienced and friendly team.
Person specification
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Broad experience of working in a variety of clinical areas as a physiotherapist e.g., elderly care, neurology, general medicine, orthopaedics, MSK, respiratory care
- Good knowledge of working in specialist physiotherapy area
- Knowledge of current best practice in specialist physiotherapy area
- Knowledge of team / group dynamics and role of a Physiotherapy specialist within a team
- Evidence of effective working within an MDT
- Good computer skills
- Excellent clinical reasoning skills
- Broad base of clinical physiotherapy knowledge and different approaches required to clinical interventions
- Knowledge of governance issues
- Supervision of staff and delegation of tasks
- Ability to work under own initiative, be adaptable, flexible, compassionate, and approachable
- Ability to establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with service users and their carers
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
- Effective communication skills, including report writing and presentation skills
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience of working in a related clinical area
- Experience as a physiotherapist in the NHS and be able to demonstrate awareness of current NHS and organisation issues
- Respiratory on call competent as relevant to the post being applied for
- Evidence of participation in health, safety, and risk management
- Participation in audit / research
Skills and attributes
Essential criteria
- Good computer skills
- Excellent clinical reasoning skills
- Broad base of clinical physiotherapy knowledge and different approaches required to clinical interventions
- Knowledge of governance issues
- Supervision of staff and delegation of tasks
- Ability to work under own initiative, be adaptable, flexible, compassionate, and approachable
- Ability to establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with service users and their carers
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
- Effective communication skills, including report writing and presentation skills
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of participation in health and safety and risk management
- Participation in audit and research
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Degree in physiotherapy or equivalent
- HCPC registered physiotherapist
- Relevant post grad level training or equivalent relevant experience
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- Clinical educator certificate
- MSc modules in relevant health studies
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel to various hospital and community locations
- Ability to fulfil occupational health requirements for the post, with reasonable adjustments as necessary
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Awareness of relevant national frameworks / guidance relating to area of work
- Commitment to professional lifelong learning
- Able to cover evening clinics as required by the service
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Heather Hesketh
- Job title
- MSK Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 514 2314
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