Band 6 Physiotherapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Providing a high standard of physiotherapy delivery to Service personnel including highly specialist interventions in the muscular-skeletal/sports and training injury environment.
• Providing a positive caring environment, in which patients can expect a high quality professional service.
• Provide full support to the line manager in ensuring the provision of a comprehensive and professional physiotherapy/rehabilitation service for entitled personnel. This will include undertaking highly skilled and specialist work, including both individual and group based therapy.

• Having professional and legal accountability to the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) Standards of Practice, Health Professions Council Standards of Proficiency, Conduct, Performance and Ethics, Ministry of Defence (MoD) local policies and or law in all aspects of practice.

• Performing highly skilled physiotherapeutic assessment of patients referred by the Medical Officer (MO) or regional physiotherapy teams. Presentations may be diverse including complex and acute/chronic physical and psychological conditions plus sports injuries. To use clinical reasoning skills to provide an accurate clinical diagnosis.

• Working closely with an Exercise Rehabilitation Instructor (ERI) to deliver residential rehabilitation, in which assessments, treatments and classes are conducted on a group or individual basis.

Please see job description and person specification for additional job duties and responsibilities.

Selection Process:

The selection at sift stage will be based on your application. At interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Technical Skills:

• NHS Core - NHSC1 - Communication
• NHS Core - NHSC2 - Personal & People Development
• NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
• NHS Core - NHSC4 - Service Improvement
• NNHS Core NHSC5 Quality
• NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning
• NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB5 Provision of Care
• NHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB7 - Interventions & Treatment
• NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK1 Information Processing

To be eligible to be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

Please ensure the required skills, qualifications and memberships are demonstrated in your application.

Additional Information:

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

Requests to work flexibly will be considered, taking into account business needs.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed.

The level of security needed is security check.

If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Please see the attached further information document for full details.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, <a href=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans/>Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans</a>

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment by 31st December 2022. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional Qualifications:
• Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (MCSP).
• State Registered Physiotherapist (HCPC).
• Degree in Physiotherapy plus additional specialist training or experience to post graduate diploma level or equivalent.

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.

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

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Address

Royal Air Force Halton

Aylesbury

Buckinghamshire

HP22 5PG

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence (Opens in a new tab)