Advance Physiotherapist Chronic Pain Service

Job summary

The Musculoskeletal (MSK) Service Chronic Pain Team Stafford and Cannock are looking for an enthusiastic Advanced Physiotherapist to join our friendly team.

You will be required to hold avalid HCPC registration,be able to evidence advanced skills as a senior clinician working with patients with long-term chronic pain and have a clear desire to expand your knowledge & skills with a capacity for autonomous clinical decision-making and problem solving.

We are looking for a team player who is a good communicator, has a solution-focused outlook and emotional resilience. You will need to be open, honest & compassionate, as you may be required to lead difficult conversations and support for patients regarding the prognosis of their condition.

You will need to have the ability to work flexibly and react quickly and calmly to rapidly changing circumstances and a drive to develop effective professional working relationships.

Main duties of the job

As part of your role in The Musculoskeletal (MSK) Service Chronic Pain Team Stafford and Cannock you will be:

• Providing chronic pain assessments & treatments in a variety of settings 1:1, group and virtual
• Able to support development and delivery of structured interdisciplinary education for the team, including day-to-day clinical support for physiotherapists and other health care professionals.
• Working closely with other teams/agencies - involvement in addressing a range of support issues across MSK and pain conditions
• Supporting service development and delivery of local and Trust wide projects.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by

• Supporting your career development and progression.
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resource.
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.