The closing date is 19 July 2026

Job summary
We have an exciting new opportunity for a Registered Professional with an interest in patients who are visiting our Musculoskeletal departments. You will be working alongside an established, consultant and nurse led team to enable you to provide expert care to this complex patient group and assisting with advice and clinic reviews. You will support the team in ensuring a high standard of care and act as an advocate to the patient and their families. You will use your knowledge and clinical decision making skills to provide a quality, integrated service for rheumatology, fracture and orthopaedic patients within North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust. Good communication skills and resourcefulness are key to the role as the post holder will communicate closely with a variety of personnel and departments across the Trust and the wider community. The successful candidate will manage and lead the teams and will support and guide the wider multi-disciplinary team to develop new services and pathways in order to improve the patient experience. The post holder will act as a role model in the delivery of patient care, support, teach and inspire others to ensure a positive patient experience and delivery of an ever growing service. The post holder will be required to travel between Peterborough City Hospital and Hinchingbrooke Hospital.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a management role for the Rheumatology and Orthopaedic CBU outpatient staff ensuring that care is delivered to a high standard.
• To be responsible for the effective management of the workload and provide a safe environment for patient's staff and visitors.
• To undertake a management role, alongside Matron, in planning co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the MSK service to outpatients on a day-to-day basis.
• To work within and across professional and organisational boundaries, liasing with other professionals to deliver expert care to a high standard to clients.
• Take the lead role in specialist advice for MSK patients.
• To work with the Matron to improve services to patients and develop staff.

About us
We are committed to supporting colleagues through organisational change. Priority will be given to staff at risk within North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care Board

Qualifications

• Essential
  • Registered Professional
  • Education to diploma level or equivalent
  • Evidence of post registration education
  • Teaching qualification or willingness to undertake
• Desirable
  • Degree level study
  • Management qualification
  • Plastering qualification

Experience

• Essential
  • At least 5 years post-registration experience
  • At least 2 years working as a senior team member
  • Experience of leading a team
  • Experience of direct supervision of qualified and unqualified staff
  • Ability to manage staff, conflict and difficult situations and to challenge and support others appropriately and assertively
• Desirable
  • Experience in plastering skills
  • Experience in managing a team

Skills

• Essential
  • Able to organise and lead meetings
  • Computer literate. Internet, email, Word
  • Able to communicate effectively at different levels
  • Excellent communication skills with an ability to write concise and comprehensive reports
  • Keyboard accuracy

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).