Connect Health Group Limited

Pain Management Nurse

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Job summary

We at Connect Health are delighted to be growing our team of talented clinicians and are currently looking for a Clinical Specialist in Pain who is passionate about providing high-quality patient-centred care to join us as part of a large multidisciplinary team in West Yorksire.

The service in West Yorkshire provides a tailored approach to the individual service user. The successful candidate will be required to work facilitating face to face clinics in GP practices across the West Yorkshire area, Pain Management Programmes both face to face and online and telephone reviews. They will be joining a multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses and wellbeing practitioners who are committed and passionate about providing a biopsychosocial model of care to people with persistent pain.

Main duties of the job

You will utilise Clinical expertise to function as a Pain specialist, managing a varied and complex clinical caseload within the community service contract. This will include:

  • Assess patients requirements, in relation to their goals. Plan, manage and review functional and psychological restoration for individuals and groups.
  • Review care plans at timely intervals and communicate effectively with the patients GP, advising on ongoing and flare up management plans agreed with the patient.
  • Provide safe, effective and dignified care according to best practice and national guidelines.
  • To provide advice and treatments to individual patients within best practice and national guidelines.

About us

Connect Health is a leading community services healthcare provider encompassing mental health, IAPT, rehabilitation, physiotherapy, tier-2 MSK (musculoskeletal), chronic pain, functional disorder/long Covid, First Contract Practitioners (FCP), rheumatology and occupational health services, serving over 375k NHS patients pa across 55+ NHS partners and 100+ occupational health wellbeing services.

As by far the largest independent MSK and Pain services provider, Connect Health supports the NHS to effectively and efficiently deliver care in more appropriate community settings, transforming services around specific quality and financial objectives, reducing waiting times and improving outcomes for patients.

Connect Health was established over 30 years ago and has built an enviable level of specialist expertise in delivering sustained transformation through its dedication to patient care, sophisticated infrastructure, digital tools, highly advanced clinical and operational insight and change methodology.

Details

Date posted

21 August 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience £31,000 - £39,000

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

E0332-NK28

Job locations

Dewsbury Health Centre

Wellington Road

Dewsbury

West Yorkshire

WF13 1HN


Job description

Job responsibilities

We are dedicated to delivering the highest level of patient care, in the most efficient and cost-effective way, with re-investment to ensure services are sustainable. We are looking for well-organised Pain Clinician, to deliver quality clinical care for patients with chronic pain. Whilst undertaking comprehensive assessment and diagnosis of patients with a wide variety of physical and emotional needs, you must formulate, deliver, review and progress individual treatment programmes and ensure effective treatment, specialist advice and timely discharge are achieved.

We are committed to a multi-professional workforce based on competency and welcome applications from Physiotherapists, Osteopaths, Sports Therapists and Rehab Therapists, youll be registered with an appropriate professional body and ideally be a qualified practitioner that works within Pain. If youre able to manage a varied caseload of chronic pain patients, committed to CPD and have the desire to develop yourself and the service, with a keen eye on improving patient care, then wed like to hear from you.

Join our motivated, ambitious, and fast-growing team. We focus on competency, developing talent and offer great flexibility. Full details of the post are contained within the Job Description in supporting documents.

Why work for Connect Health?

We are dedicated to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and rewarding our colleagues. We continue to reward our staff with competitive salaries and a great range of employee benefits. These include:

A minimum of 5% of your hours is bespoke personal development time

A proven roadmap to Consultant-level practice for those that wish to develop this level of capability.

Access to an internal network of Consultant clinicians (medical and AHPs) that provide leadership, educational, research and clinical support.

Access to the full content (live and recorded sessions) of the Connect Clinical Education Academy

Access to support and engagement with our entire MDT clinical workforce via

o Emergency clinical on call rota

o Clinical supervision

o Coaching and mentoring

o Online clinical resource and chat network

o Internal conferences and study days

o Clinical support tools/pathways

Up to 30 days holiday (plus public holidays)

option to buy additional annual leave

an additional day off for your birthday

online discounts portal

employer pension contributions

salary sacrifice schemes

an employee assistance programme

performance related pay rewards

team building/away days

reimbursement of professional body membership fees for clinicians

These benefits are our way of saying thank you to our colleagues.

The best thing about Connect Health? For me its the opportunity to develop and be part of an organisation that arent afraid to innovate whilst keeping the patient at the centre of everything we do. Connect Health MSK Clinician, Spring 2022

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are dedicated to delivering the highest level of patient care, in the most efficient and cost-effective way, with re-investment to ensure services are sustainable. We are looking for well-organised Pain Clinician, to deliver quality clinical care for patients with chronic pain. Whilst undertaking comprehensive assessment and diagnosis of patients with a wide variety of physical and emotional needs, you must formulate, deliver, review and progress individual treatment programmes and ensure effective treatment, specialist advice and timely discharge are achieved.

We are committed to a multi-professional workforce based on competency and welcome applications from Physiotherapists, Osteopaths, Sports Therapists and Rehab Therapists, youll be registered with an appropriate professional body and ideally be a qualified practitioner that works within Pain. If youre able to manage a varied caseload of chronic pain patients, committed to CPD and have the desire to develop yourself and the service, with a keen eye on improving patient care, then wed like to hear from you.

Join our motivated, ambitious, and fast-growing team. We focus on competency, developing talent and offer great flexibility. Full details of the post are contained within the Job Description in supporting documents.

Why work for Connect Health?

We are dedicated to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and rewarding our colleagues. We continue to reward our staff with competitive salaries and a great range of employee benefits. These include:

A minimum of 5% of your hours is bespoke personal development time

A proven roadmap to Consultant-level practice for those that wish to develop this level of capability.

Access to an internal network of Consultant clinicians (medical and AHPs) that provide leadership, educational, research and clinical support.

Access to the full content (live and recorded sessions) of the Connect Clinical Education Academy

Access to support and engagement with our entire MDT clinical workforce via

o Emergency clinical on call rota

o Clinical supervision

o Coaching and mentoring

o Online clinical resource and chat network

o Internal conferences and study days

o Clinical support tools/pathways

Up to 30 days holiday (plus public holidays)

option to buy additional annual leave

an additional day off for your birthday

online discounts portal

employer pension contributions

salary sacrifice schemes

an employee assistance programme

performance related pay rewards

team building/away days

reimbursement of professional body membership fees for clinicians

These benefits are our way of saying thank you to our colleagues.

The best thing about Connect Health? For me its the opportunity to develop and be part of an organisation that arent afraid to innovate whilst keeping the patient at the centre of everything we do. Connect Health MSK Clinician, Spring 2022

Person Specification

The ideal applicant will have

Essential

  • Previous experience in delivering pain services with tangible results.
  • Current valid registration with your relevant professional body or equivalent regulator (HCPC or NMC)
  • A keen and enthusiastic clinician with a commitment to providing excellent, personalised care as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • An understanding of the impact of chronic pain in the wider community and how collaborative working across the local system enables prevention and addresses health inequalities
  • Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner, within scope of practice and deliver a quality clinical service meeting the clinical and operational needs of the Pain service with senior support as required.
  • To contribute to the development of, and promote a positive and dynamic image and culture to both internal and external stakeholders. At all times striving to reflect and encourage our core value behaviours
  • To develop and foster productive relationships with local stakeholder groups, charities, GPs, and other potentially productive links.
Person Specification

The ideal applicant will have

Essential

  • Previous experience in delivering pain services with tangible results.
  • Current valid registration with your relevant professional body or equivalent regulator (HCPC or NMC)
  • A keen and enthusiastic clinician with a commitment to providing excellent, personalised care as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • An understanding of the impact of chronic pain in the wider community and how collaborative working across the local system enables prevention and addresses health inequalities
  • Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner, within scope of practice and deliver a quality clinical service meeting the clinical and operational needs of the Pain service with senior support as required.
  • To contribute to the development of, and promote a positive and dynamic image and culture to both internal and external stakeholders. At all times striving to reflect and encourage our core value behaviours
  • To develop and foster productive relationships with local stakeholder groups, charities, GPs, and other potentially productive links.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Connect Health Group Limited

Address

Dewsbury Health Centre

Wellington Road

Dewsbury

West Yorkshire

WF13 1HN


Employer's website

https://www.connecthealth.co.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Connect Health Group Limited

Address

Dewsbury Health Centre

Wellington Road

Dewsbury

West Yorkshire

WF13 1HN


Employer's website

https://www.connecthealth.co.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

the Talent Team

talent@connecthealth.co.uk

Details

Date posted

21 August 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience £31,000 - £39,000

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

E0332-NK28

Job locations

Dewsbury Health Centre

Wellington Road

Dewsbury

West Yorkshire

WF13 1HN


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