Highly Specialist Physiotherapist

Job summary

We are looking to recruit a Band 7 Highly Specialist Physiotherapist with experience of working with people living with chronic to join the Chronic Pain Self Management Team (CPSMT), St George's Hospital. The CPSMT)is a well established and experienced multi disciplinary team offering highly specialist assessments and interventions for people living with complex chronic pain presentations. We aim to support people referred to our service to develop a range of self management skills to allow them to improve their overall quality of life despite pain. Interventions are focussed on improving understanding of chronic pain, increasing function and engagement in valued activities, managing pain related distress and reducing inappropriate health case.

This post would suit a physiotherapist who is looking to further develop their skills in chronic pain / long term condition management including -

• Delivering self management interventions for complex chronic pain presentations in groups and with individuals
• Developing and maintaining links with a range of services at St George's Hospital and in the community in order to improve care pathways.
• Teaching and training other health professionals

The post is supported via regular supervision from a senior physiotherapist working within the team, as well as an established team meeting structure including monthly CPD sessions, team handover meetings and case discussions.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide highly specialist assessment and treatment for people attending the Chronic Pain Self Management Team. This will require working as an autonomous practitioner, with advice and support from the Band 8a Clinical Physiotherapy Specialist in Chronic Pain and the service clinical lead. The post holder will work with patients presenting with complex chronic pain presentations, offering specialised clinical assessment, treatment planning and appropriate discharge from the service, adapting practice to suit the needs of the patient.

In addition to direct clinical work, the postholder will work with the CPT 8a Clinical Physiotherapy Specialist to further develop and maintain a valuable link between the MSK and Chronic Pain Services. As such the postholder will provide case consultation, teaching / training and assist with developing pathways between the services to ensure timely, quality and effective care for patients.

About us

A thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment. The Trust is clear that all staff have a responsibility to be aware of children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures and that each member of staff, clinical and non-clinical, will attend child or adult safeguarding training that is provided at an appropriate level to suit their role. The Trust has the additional expectation that all staff will be able to identify concerns and know what action to take.