Job summary
The North Central London Perinatal Pelvic Health Service (hosted by Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust) provides specialist perinatal pelvic health care across hospitals and community sites, throughout Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Islington and Camden.
This role has been developed as part of the Maternity Transformation Programme for North Central London, aiming to enhance specialist perinatal pelvic health care for women during pregnancy and postpartum.
The Perinatal Pelvic Health Service is closely linked with departments such as Gynaecology, Maternity, Urology, and Colorectal, ensuring appropriate clinical pathways for patients experiencing pelvic health symptoms. The post-holder will work closely with the Band 8a Clinical Lead Perinatal Pelvic Health Specialist, who will provide leadership, supervision, and mentoring opportunities. There will also be opportunities to join the local networks multicentre physiotherapy and multidisciplinary training sessions.
This role involves working across two site locations, requiring flexibility in service delivery to meet the needs of the perinatal population.
Unfortunately, the service will not be able to support any accommodation packages for this post
Main duties of the job
To work as an autonomous practitioner within the multidisciplinary Perinatal Pelvic Health Service.
To provide highly specialised assessment and intervention for a varied caseload of outpatients within the speciality of perinatal pelvic health, including patients with highly complex presentations, with the aim of facilitating short- and long-term self-management strategies.
To contribute to the ongoing development of the Perinatal Pelvic Health Service, in consultation with the Head of Therapy Services, ensuring maximum efficiency, productivity, and cost-effectiveness.
To work closely with the Band 8 Clinical Lead Perinatal Pelvic Health Specialist to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care and service improvements.
To supervise, teach, and appraise junior physiotherapists, assistants, and students as appropriate.
To lead, initiate, and participate in evidence-based projects and in-service training sessions.
About us
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top
Therapy Services has a high profile within the Trust, being firmly committed to quality improvement, audit, service evaluation and improvement. We undertake yearly presentations of our achievements for the year; undertaking PDSA and QI projects to ensure we are delivering the most effective, safe and high quality service.
For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Person Specification
Skills and aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent communication skills with a range of patients and healthcare professionals regarding complex and sensitive issues
- Highly effective written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively within different teams both multi and unidisciplinary
- Ability to manage own time & meet deadlines and support others to do the same
- Competent IT skills including use of internet, email and word processing
- Good presentation skills
Education & professional Qualifications, Values
Essential
- BSc Degree in Physiotherapy or Diploma or equivalent
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration for profession
- Evidence or portfolio of postgraduate continued development in specialist clinical area
Desirable
- Evidence of study or intention to study at Master's level
- Membership of specialist interest group
Experience
Essential
- Substantial postgraduate experience at a Band 6 level or equivalent including within specialist area
- Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches for the management of patients within specialist clinical area
- Awareness of cognitive behavioural approaches to rehabilitation
- Experience of group work
- Previous experience of junior staff & student supervision/ clinical education
- Experience of leading a team
- Experience of clinical audit and/or research
- Evidence of active involvement in service development & contribution to change within the workplace
- Experience of teaching to unidisciplinary/ multidisciplinary groups
- Experience of multidisciplinary and interagency working
Desirable
- Experience of teaching to unidisciplinary/ multidisciplinary groups
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Person Specification
Skills and aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent communication skills with a range of patients and healthcare professionals regarding complex and sensitive issues
- Highly effective written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively within different teams both multi and unidisciplinary
- Ability to manage own time & meet deadlines and support others to do the same
- Competent IT skills including use of internet, email and word processing
- Good presentation skills
Education & professional Qualifications, Values
Essential
- BSc Degree in Physiotherapy or Diploma or equivalent
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration for profession
- Evidence or portfolio of postgraduate continued development in specialist clinical area
Desirable
- Evidence of study or intention to study at Master's level
- Membership of specialist interest group
Experience
Essential
- Substantial postgraduate experience at a Band 6 level or equivalent including within specialist area
- Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches for the management of patients within specialist clinical area
- Awareness of cognitive behavioural approaches to rehabilitation
- Experience of group work
- Previous experience of junior staff & student supervision/ clinical education
- Experience of leading a team
- Experience of clinical audit and/or research
- Evidence of active involvement in service development & contribution to change within the workplace
- Experience of teaching to unidisciplinary/ multidisciplinary groups
- Experience of multidisciplinary and interagency working
Desirable
- Experience of teaching to unidisciplinary/ multidisciplinary groups
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
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).
