Job summary

Are you an experienced and enthusiastic Musculoskeletal Outpatients Physiotherapist looking to take the next step in your career?

This fixed-term opportunity offers an exciting chance to lead and develop the Staff Physiotherapy Service alongside the Musculoskeletal Outpatients Service within the Brownsword Therapies Centre. You'll play a key role in shaping high-quality, patient-centred care while supporting and inspiring a dedicated multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

• Plan, co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate the outpatient Physiotherapy service on a day-to-day basis.
• Provide supervision, training and appraisals to the outpatient Physiotherapy team.
• Undertake advanced assessment and treatments to patients who may have diverse presentations.
• Manage the Staff Physiotherapy Service, assessing and treating staff members presenting with musculoskeletal conditions.
• Report on progress of ongoing service projects relating to local, divisional and trust wide objectives.
• Deputise for Deputy Head of Therapies - Outpatients in their absence.

About us

At the RUH we're proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centered care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

Job responsibilities

Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Experience
Essential

• Advanced knowledge of broad range of condition in specialist area
• Experience of supervising more junior staff/students
• Involvement in audit, research and understanding quality issues
• Knowledge of validated assessment tools and outcome measures
• Knowledge and experience of complying with trust policies

Desirable

• Evidence of appraisal, supervision and teaching of Band 5/6 staff, assistants and students.
• Training in clinical supervision and/or leadership skills
• Experience of implementing change
• Experience in staff recruitment and interviewing techniques

Qualifications & Training
Essential

• Degree in Physiotherapy
• HCPC Registration
• Evidence of CPD
• Attendance of relevant postgraduate courses
• Competent IT skills

Desirable

• CSP Member
• Involvement in Special Clinical Interest Groups

Specific Skills
Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• To remain updated with professional and evidence based practice and new research
• Effective presentation skills
• To understand the legal responsibilities of the profession
• To be able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner and to keep accurate and legible patient notes
• To be able to comprehend and work within all the Trusts' policies of clinical governance, data protection, auditing and health and safety
• To be experienced in performing specialist assessments and treatments with patients with a variety of specific conditions

Desirable

• Experience of running internal/ external courses

Physical Skills & Emotional Effort
Essential

• To have experience of working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers
• To carry out assessments and treatments of patients for several periods with moderate to intense physical effort whilst carrying out concurrent activities
• To deal sensitively with patients who have high levels of anxiety and aggression caused by pain, dementia or limited mobility

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.

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).

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

Employer details
Employer name: Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Royal United Hospitals Bath, Bath, BA1 3NG, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

For questions about the job, contact:
Deputy Head of Therapies - Outpatients
James Crossfield
james.crossfield@nhs.net
01225821241