Job summary
Band 6 Senior Hand Physiotherapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 6 Physiotherapist to work in the Regional Plastic Surgery and Specialist Hand Physiotherapy team at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. The Brunel Bristol Hand & Upper Limb Centre provides high quality care in a highly specialised clinical area for the Southwest of England. We are a friendly team committed to providing outstanding patient experience working closely alongside our surgical colleagues.

We are looking for a Senior Physiotherapist with a Musculoskeletal or Plastic Surgery background to join the team.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a senior member of the specialist hand and upper limb physiotherapy team with responsibility for a mixed caseload of primarily hand trauma patients including the management of complex patients requiring daily treatment. The position requires caseload management & organisation duties within the team on a day-to-day basis. The post-holder routinely covers other Senior Staff during their regular periods of absence.

About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Job responsibilities
Clinical Practice

• Assess and treat referrals from all sources (GP, A&E, Pain and Hand and upper limb clinics, whether acute or chronic and often with complex hand and upper limb dysfunction
• Assess patients following complex hand trauma, diagnose, set realistic goals for rehabilitation & healing, devise appropriate patient specific treatment programmes, monitor progress and determine the final rehabilitated outcome
• Assess patients using specialist physiotherapy methods based upon the Biopsychosocial model, devise appropriate treatment plans, regularly re-assess and monitor progress
• Maintain a high standard of clinical practice and self-directed CPD
• Continually evaluate physiotherapy standards of practice; participate in audit and to help ensure patient management is effective and best practice
• Provide in service training for Physiotherapy colleagues, ensure skills and knowledge is shared
• Maintain full and effective clinical records and communications within departmental policy
• Supervise, support, develop and coach staff under post-holder's supervision to ensure they meet the high clinical standards, skills and dexterity required of the role
• Gather, analyse and evaluate information to identify relevant problems with patients, carers and colleagues
• Teach patients how to manage their condition, engage in home treatment programmes to and effectively limit their activities to protect their condition
• Monitor and manage engagement or non-engagement, communicate patients' progress and monitor the receipt of such communication to Consultants GPs and other parties clearly

Person Specification
Education/Training/Qualifications
Essential

• Degree or equivalent in physiotherapy
• HPC registration
• Evidence of experience in the Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy field

Desirable

• Evidence of experience in Hand Physiotherapy/Burns and Plastics field

Work Experience
Essential

• CPD (Continuing Professional Development) portfolio to provide evidence of evidence based practice
• Completion of core competencies in physiotherapy as an undergraduate and evidence of experiences in variety of Physiotherapy settings

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Southmead Hospital, Southmead Road, Bristol, BS10 5NB, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Hand Centre Team Leader, James Henney, james.henney@nbt.nhs.uk, 01174141879

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce.