Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our excellent dynamic out-patient Physiotherapy teams
The role will involve working autonomously as a lead Physiotherapist providing a clinical specialist Physiotherapy service within associated specialist clinics across the sites but predominantly the HGS sites and take clinical responsibility for the assessment and management decisions for patients who are referred. Responsibilities may include FCP and Orthopaedic work.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring clinical effectiveness across the Physiotherapy service clinic by utilising evaluation and research skills. They will also provide strong clinical leadership in the provision of an effective, high quality, Physiotherapy Service for patients.
We are an innovative and outward looking department and this is a fantastic role for those looking to expand their clinical portfolio, highly rewarding and will enable the successful candidate to work within a service that prides itself on quality and putting the patient first.
This post is for a 12 month secondment/fixed term contract and is for 18.75 hours per week.
Main duties of the job
To work autonomously as a lead Physiotherapist providing a clinical specialist Physiotherapy service within associated specialist clinics across the sites but predominantly the HGS sites (working in collaboration with the Director of AHPs on the QEHB site) -and take clinical responsibility for the assessment and management decisions for patients who are referred.
To be responsible for ensuring clinical effectiveness across the Physiotherapy service clinic by utilising evaluation and research skills.
To provide strong clinical leadership in the provision of an effective, high quality, Physiotherapy Service for patients.
To lead and support audit and research projects to evaluate service delivery.
To be responsible for the education, training and development of Physiotherapy staff across the OPD clinic section.
To regularly review clinical practice delivery considering new models of care and clinical transformation programmes within UHBFT, and to identify new ways of working, this includes the advancement of extended clinical skills in this post and others.
To work with medical, nursing, AHP and other healthcare colleagues across the clinical specialty within UHBFT and outside of the Trust to optimise patient management. This may include implementing and delivering education and training to cross professional groups.
To develop and maintain key working relationships across professional boundaries with consultant and nursing teams who are associated with the Physiotherapy service.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Appropriate Physiotherapy or professional qualification e.g. MCSP/ BSc or MSc.
- *Registration with Health Care Professions Council
- *CSP or equivalent professional registration.
- *MSc in relevant subject or working at "M" level as demonstrated by ongoing CPD
- *Evidence of commitment to advanced clinical and non-clinical continued professional development within own speciality, e.g. post registration training, management competencies and evidence of a detailed personal development portfolio
- *Relevant, accredited, postgraduate education/courses in this specialist physiotherapy area
Desirable
- *Management, Leadership or teaching qualification
- *Master's degree or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- *Extensive post registration experience of which significant years have been in this specialist area of care in an acute NHS organisation.
- *Significant experience as a clinical leader including direct clinical supervision of staff.
- *Significant experience in education and clinical training of others. Teaching experience to uni and multi-professional groups with evidence of ability to deliver high quality presentations
- *Significant experience of clinical/service evaluation.
- *Advanced knowledge and skill in the advanced assessment and treatment of a wide range of complex acute and chronic clinical presentations relating to the patients presenting with spinal conditions.
- *Advanced knowledge of anatomy and physiology.
- *Good working knowledge and application of all areas of Clinical Governance including Quality, Audit and Risk management
- *Awareness of current evidence in care physiotherapy and application to clinical practice, using advanced clinical reasoning skills.
- *Understands the legal responsibilities of the profession
- *Good understanding of principles of data and statistics and experience of their use in evaluation of service delivery
- *Knowledge and understanding of the research process
- *Good understanding of IT and its application
- *Significant experience in the development and performance management of physiotherapists and students
Desirable
- *Experience of managing budgets and resources
- *Experience of clinical pathway development and redesign
- *Managing programmes of organisational change that have led to tangible improvements
- *Able to demonstrate experience of patient and public engagement
- *Able to demonstrate experience of operational management knowledge and skills
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Ability to work autonomously within specialist clinical area & undertake advanced clinical analysis and reasoning skills in the assessment and treatment patients presenting with spinal conditions and apply broad standards & guidelines to own practice.
- *Well-developed leadership and influential skills, able to lead and command confidence in senior therapists, consultants, senior nurses and managers within and related to services & work effectively across boundaries.
- *To regularly horizon scan to ensure that, with relevance to own specialty area, the service responds to national initiatives and policy within the framework of clinical governance including clinical effectiveness, evidence-based healthcare, managing clinical risk and development issues, and that there is evaluation against national benchmarks where appropriate.
- *Able to demonstrate the ability to select and apply a wide range treatment options for a range of clinical presentations.
- *Able to demonstrate advanced physical skills especially in precision, dexterity and hand-eye/sensory co-ordination to undertake e.g. palpation and mobilisation at an advanced level.
- *Ability to constructively challenge current practice and identify opportunity to develop, implement and facilitate change in practice by others.
- *Excellent verbal & written skills; able to communicate complex clinical information in a clear and logical manner to patients, colleagues and other healthcare professional concerning a wide range of clinical situations.
- *Good teaching, supervisory and appraisal skills
- *Proven organisational skills including prioritisation and delegation
- *Able to interpret and analyse a range of policy, clinical guidelines and data and their relevance for practice.
- *Excellent report writing skills
- *Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust's policies of data protection, equal opportunities and Health and Safety to meet the differing needs of patients.
- *Enthusiasm
- *Strong sense of professional integrity and compliance with trust vison and values
- *Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- *Flexibility
- *Commitment
- *Willingness to take responsibility
- *Confidence
- *Able to maintain judgement under pressure
- *Assertive
- *Ability to participate in weekend working, supporting delivery of extended and 7-day service where relevant
- *Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post -- holds a UK driving licence and has use of a vehicle for work purposes Therapy services
Desirable
- *Ability to manage change and conflict ensuring resolution
- *Ability to cope with flexible working patterns and adapt to change, capacity and demand
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Appropriate Physiotherapy or professional qualification e.g. MCSP/ BSc or MSc.
- *Registration with Health Care Professions Council
- *CSP or equivalent professional registration.
- *MSc in relevant subject or working at "M" level as demonstrated by ongoing CPD
- *Evidence of commitment to advanced clinical and non-clinical continued professional development within own speciality, e.g. post registration training, management competencies and evidence of a detailed personal development portfolio
- *Relevant, accredited, postgraduate education/courses in this specialist physiotherapy area
Desirable
- *Management, Leadership or teaching qualification
- *Master's degree or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- *Extensive post registration experience of which significant years have been in this specialist area of care in an acute NHS organisation.
- *Significant experience as a clinical leader including direct clinical supervision of staff.
- *Significant experience in education and clinical training of others. Teaching experience to uni and multi-professional groups with evidence of ability to deliver high quality presentations
- *Significant experience of clinical/service evaluation.
- *Advanced knowledge and skill in the advanced assessment and treatment of a wide range of complex acute and chronic clinical presentations relating to the patients presenting with spinal conditions.
- *Advanced knowledge of anatomy and physiology.
- *Good working knowledge and application of all areas of Clinical Governance including Quality, Audit and Risk management
- *Awareness of current evidence in care physiotherapy and application to clinical practice, using advanced clinical reasoning skills.
- *Understands the legal responsibilities of the profession
- *Good understanding of principles of data and statistics and experience of their use in evaluation of service delivery
- *Knowledge and understanding of the research process
- *Good understanding of IT and its application
- *Significant experience in the development and performance management of physiotherapists and students
Desirable
- *Experience of managing budgets and resources
- *Experience of clinical pathway development and redesign
- *Managing programmes of organisational change that have led to tangible improvements
- *Able to demonstrate experience of patient and public engagement
- *Able to demonstrate experience of operational management knowledge and skills
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Ability to work autonomously within specialist clinical area & undertake advanced clinical analysis and reasoning skills in the assessment and treatment patients presenting with spinal conditions and apply broad standards & guidelines to own practice.
- *Well-developed leadership and influential skills, able to lead and command confidence in senior therapists, consultants, senior nurses and managers within and related to services & work effectively across boundaries.
- *To regularly horizon scan to ensure that, with relevance to own specialty area, the service responds to national initiatives and policy within the framework of clinical governance including clinical effectiveness, evidence-based healthcare, managing clinical risk and development issues, and that there is evaluation against national benchmarks where appropriate.
- *Able to demonstrate the ability to select and apply a wide range treatment options for a range of clinical presentations.
- *Able to demonstrate advanced physical skills especially in precision, dexterity and hand-eye/sensory co-ordination to undertake e.g. palpation and mobilisation at an advanced level.
- *Ability to constructively challenge current practice and identify opportunity to develop, implement and facilitate change in practice by others.
- *Excellent verbal & written skills; able to communicate complex clinical information in a clear and logical manner to patients, colleagues and other healthcare professional concerning a wide range of clinical situations.
- *Good teaching, supervisory and appraisal skills
- *Proven organisational skills including prioritisation and delegation
- *Able to interpret and analyse a range of policy, clinical guidelines and data and their relevance for practice.
- *Excellent report writing skills
- *Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust's policies of data protection, equal opportunities and Health and Safety to meet the differing needs of patients.
- *Enthusiasm
- *Strong sense of professional integrity and compliance with trust vison and values
- *Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- *Flexibility
- *Commitment
- *Willingness to take responsibility
- *Confidence
- *Able to maintain judgement under pressure
- *Assertive
- *Ability to participate in weekend working, supporting delivery of extended and 7-day service where relevant
- *Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post -- holds a UK driving licence and has use of a vehicle for work purposes Therapy services
Desirable
- *Ability to manage change and conflict ensuring resolution
- *Ability to cope with flexible working patterns and adapt to change, capacity and demand
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
