Senior MSK Clinician in Pain - Rehab Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Purpose of Role

To work as an autonomous practitioner, within scope of practice and deliver a quality clinical service meeting the clinical and commercial needs of the Community Pain Management Services contract with senior support as required.

To develop and promote a positive and dynamic image and culture to both internal and external stakeholders. At all times striving to reflect and encourage core value behaviours

Work effectively as part of multi-professional workforce to provide holistic care to the patient population within the biopsychosocial model of care and communicate effectively with local stakeholders (including GPs, Consultants)

Key Tasks

Clinical

Determine Clinical diagnosis and provide treatment indicated as an autonomous practitioner, developing appropriate packages of care, giving specialist clinical / professional advice to patients, carers and other Health Care Professionals.

Undertake comprehensive assessment and diagnosis of patients with a wide variety of physical, and emotional needs. To formulate, deliver, review and progress individual treatment programmes, ensuring effective treatment, specialist advice and timely discharge is achieved.

Evaluate own clinical practice through use of outcome measures, reflection and audit, to facilitate continuous improvement for our patients and promote evidencebased practice.

Maintain patient documentation, records and accurate statistical information to reflect care provided and to meet professional and company standards and local and national guidelines.

Demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance, including ability to audit own practice.

Responsible for organisation, prioritisation and planning of own caseload with support from our patient coordination centre.

To demonstrate clinical competencies to required company standards

Be flexible in methods of clinical delivery, including working at agreed sites within the contractual area to meet the varied needs of our patients. Treatment may include but is not limited to; individual assessment, advice, screening, treatment and rehab, group rehab, pain management programs and educational seminars.;

To conduct all clinical interventions and related actions in line with relevant professional standards, such as CSP, HPC, ACPSM, BASRaT, SST as well as Connect standards and policies and where applicable, contract parameters.

To demonstrate a commitment to ongoing professional development and to maintain a contemporary record of such activity, in line with recommendations of relevant standards CSP, HPC, BASRaT and SST

To attend timetabled in service training and mandatory training programme, as well as other Connect educational initiatives which may be outside of contracted time

To be willing to share knowledge and skills and actively participate in the Connect Clinical Academy to support ongoing learning and development.

Non Clinical

Be responsible for the day-to-day organisation of the services of the clinics in which they are placed ensuring services are delivered efficiently and with high levels of patient satisfaction.

Contribute to service development/improvement and change, by identifying and liaising with team and Line Manager.

Communicate regularly and appropriately with colleagues and staff within his/her areas/sites of practice.

Be involved in regularly reviewing and updating the services, including the collation and presentation of basic statistical information regarding the delivery and outcomes of the service provided.

Utilise IT systems provided to track and record patient interactions, complete and submit service and HR data requirements, and review and respond to internal/external communications.

To demonstrate understanding and compliance with company policies and procedures including Safeguarding of Adult at Risk Policy and Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy.

To demonstrate ability to identify concerns regarding child safeguarding, welfare and child protection and safeguarding of adults at risk.

To understand the processes for escalating concerns regarding child protection, welfare and safeguarding for their service or region

To ensure that their own personal mandatory training is up to date including refresher training.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• The role of an MSK Clinician working in pain services is fundamentally about the consistent delivery of quality clinical care for the patients presenting to our Community Service to help them to live well despite persistent pain. This requires a compassionate,
• positive, constructive, and approachable clinician who can confidently carry out tasks with fairness and integrity.
• The Clinician will be expected to be well organised, conscientious, and capable of managing the varied caseload of patients in a variety of clinical environments. An ability to work well under pressure as well as a commitment to CPD and a desire to facilitate improvement in both self and services are also key characteristics.
• Excellent communication skills are vital to the role and the Clinician must be able to communicate confidently and effectively with both patients and colleagues alike using a variety of mediums. Most clinical diaries and patient notes are administered electronically and as such Clinicians are required to have good IT skills and be willing to embrace
• innovation and technological advances that improve service delivery.

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

Brentwood Community Hospital

11 Crescent Drive

Brentwood

Essex

CM15 8DR

Employer's website

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