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Job summary

Main area
Therapies
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent: B8a
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week (Across LUHFT sites, main base Aintree site)
Job ref
287-DSS-361-24
Employer
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
RLB Musculoskeletal
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/08/2024 18:00

Employer heading

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Advanced Practitioner: Physiotherapy - Spines

Band 8a

Job overview

This role provides an exciting opportunity for experienced clinicians with a passion for spinal assessment and rehabilitation to work alongside our Consultant Spinal Therapist to deliver high quality care for our patients. The successful candidate will provide clinical expertise within Physiotherapy departments, Musculoskeletal Triage Clinics (MCAS) and Consultant led Clinics. The role will lead on service development and provide clinical education, supervision, leadership, research and audit, in addition to clinical expertise, in line with the HEE AP framework.  Working within this large university foundation trust will enable the successful candidate to shape service delivery and influence change at a local, regional and national level.

Proposed interview date - TBC (update once approval to recruit)

Main duties of the job

  • Clinical lead for Spinal MCAS (Musculoskeletal Clinical Assessment Service)
  • Advanced practitioner role within Walton Centre Consultant Clinics (hosted at Royal Liverpool site) 
  • Musculoskeletal Triage
  • Expert physiotherapy assessment supporting the MDT
  • To order and oversee spinal investigations within physiotherapy departments
  • Lead spinal service development including audit and research activity
  • Spinal clinical education
  • Development of evidence-based pathways for Spinal conditions.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate should possess wide ranging knowledge and skills in the assessment and management of spinal conditions. They will take a lead role in the triage, clinical assessment and management of patients with spinal conditions referred to the outpatient therapy service. This will include working in an Advanced Practice role assessing and diagnosing patients referred to the MCAS service and within Consultant led clinics. 

The role will involve referring patients for a wide range of investigations including imaging and blood tests, evaluating and acting upon the results. Using a shared decision-making approach, they will be required to make onward referrals to relevant services and agencies to optimise patient care.  Training opportunities are available to support this skill development if required.

A flexible and dynamic approach is essential, and the successful candidate must be willing to work across all trust sites. Some working hours will be fixed due to the clinical templates, but others could be negotiable.

The post holder will provide clinical expertise and leadership in the ongoing development of the Spinal service in collaboration with key stakeholders. They will take an active role in service evaluation, audit and research and contribute to shared learning and evidence-based practice.

Person specification

Other

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate a good understanding of Risk Assessment and Health & Safety issues
  • Positive attitude to change and flexible work practices to meet the changing demands of the service
  • Be adaptable to changing needs of the service and clinical role giving resource and expertise as required

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work flexibly across the service to support other Clinical staff and Therapies Management team on other specific initiatives and developments as required
  • Ability to initiate evidence based practice within clinical area
  • Ability to manage own time within clinical and non-clinical activity and to show effective leadership skills empowering others to use problem solving and decision making skills
  • Ability to demonstrate specialist clinical skills accompanied by an extensive and current working knowledge of Therapy practice within the identified specialist field of clinical practice
  • Highly effective communicator at all levels
  • Ability to manage own stress and awareness of stress in others and ability to access support as relevant
  • High level of ability to work in multidisciplinary and collaborative teams
  • Ability to demonstrate tact/diplomacy and empathy within clinical and team settings
  • High level of interpersonal skills
  • High level of organisational and negotiation skills
  • Ability to lead effectively
  • Ability to motivate patients/staff
  • Ability to demonstrate assertiveness within the clinical/team and service settings
  • Ability to delegate appropriately
  • Ability to represent the Therapy service and the organisation at Trust initiatives and with external agencies
  • Ability to demonstrate and promote reflective practice
  • Demonstrate a commitment to personal development and the development of others
  • Demonstrate a commitment to keep up to date with all mandatory training

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Extensive working knowledge of Therapy practice within the identified specialist field of clinical practice
  • Ability to demonstrate a comprehensive clinical expertise within the identified specialist field of clinical practice
  • Excellent clinical reasoning skills
  • To act as an expert within specialist clinical field providing strong clinical leadership both within Therapies and the wider multi-disciplinary team
  • Take an active role within multi-agency practice both within the organisation and outside the Trust
  • Good understanding of standardised assessment tools and treatment principles Demonstrate a commitment to personal development and the development of others
  • Ability to demonstrate clinical reasoning and an holistic problem solving approach
  • Awareness of and local involvement in current NHS issues and relevant frameworks/quality indicators
  • Demonstrate awareness of Clinical Governance and its application within Therapies

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Effective teaching and presentation skills, experience of formal teaching and presentation
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of Human Resource related issues e.g. recruitment/retention, management of sickness, attendance and special leave
  • Proven experience in the formal management and supervision of staff

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Diploma/Degree in Therapy profession
  • Current registration with the HCPC
  • Masters qualification or equivalent
  • Completion of Educator /Mentorship qualification or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
  • Training qualification in relevant management/leadership development
  • Non-medical prescribing qualification (dependent on role) – Desirable

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lorraine Thompson
Job title
Spinal Consultant Therapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0151 7062760
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