Physiotherapist Team Lead - Band 6

Package Description

You will feel valued  within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• Band 6 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions 
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction

This is a MSK Physiotherapy Team Lead/Trainee team lead role at Warminster community hospital. The successful candidate will take responsibility for the day to day running of the local physiotherapy department. They will need to demonstrate excellent organisational and time management skills to allow them to integrate their non-clinical work into busy clinical schedule.

This would be an ideal role for those with a keen interest in MSK Physiotherapy who are looking to develop their leadership/management skills in a supportive environment. 

We are looking for a friendly, professional and self-motivated physiotherapist to join our flourishing musculoskeletal physiotherapy service. You must be able to demonstrate excellent assessment and clinical reasoning skills that these posts will require, within a variety of musculoskeletal, orthopaedic and general health conditions.  Good communication skills with a variety of people, conditions and within demanding situations will be an asset. You will join a friendly team with other physiotherapy staff and APP clinicians. There are excellent training opportunities within APP-led Orthopaedic clinics and MSK pathway projects that are currently ongoing in these departments. 

The successful candidate will possess a friendly, professional attitude to supplement their good MSK knowledge. We are looking for keen, interested persons who are ready to learn and develop both as people and responsible clinicians. As a senior physiotherapist you would be given responsibilities and training that reflect your current level of practice and then encouraged to manage a larger, more complex caseload as your skills are tested and improve over time. 

The role would be joining a purely musculoskeletal and orthopaedic service where you would have an excellent training and CPD program, regular mentoring from senior clinicians. In addition, there is currently no on call rota or weekend working.

The MSK service for Wiltshire is based across 11 community sites and additional GP clinics with excellent links to our acute hospitals in Bath, Salisbury, and Swindon.  We receive MSK referrals from patient Self-referral, GPs, Orthopaedics, A&E, Rheumatology, Midwives and other Health Care Professionals. Alongside MSK Physiotherapy we deliver services in Hand Therapy, Women’s and Men’s Health and Amputees.

For an informal discussion please contact Cara O’Rourke, Head of MSK Physiotherapy Service

Mobile: 07901640822

Email: cara.orourke@nhs.net

Main Responsibilities

As a Physiotherapist (Musculoskeletal – MSK) – Band 6 you will work as an integral part of the Warminster Outpatient Physiotherapy Team, to provide team leadership and specialist assessment and treatment of patients with MSK conditions. To independently manage a caseload by delivering a range of treatments in line with best practice guidelines. Participating in and coordinating the supervision and training of team members and continually evaluating and improving the service.  

Please see the attached Job description for the full list.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• HCPC Registered
• BSc or equivalent in Physiotherapy
• MSK work based training
• Evidence of on-going CPD / Reflective Practice in-line with job role
• Band 5 Level Rotations
• Experience of NHS working
• Experience in treating own caseload of MSK Patients
• Participation in delivering training / mentorship / supervision
• Delivering class based treatment
• Clinical and/or operational audits
• Supervision of Students / Juniors
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to keep legible and accurate records
• Ability to communicate with individuals with communication difficulties and patients requiring a translator
• Excellent organisational skills including time management, appropriate delegation, integration of non-clinical work into busy clinical schedule
• Ability to manage a varied and sometimes unpredictable caseload
• Ability to make clinically reasoned judgements and diagnosis on a variety of MSK conditions
• Ability to work as a sole practitioner and seek appropriate advice / guidance when required
• Ability to appropriately manage / onward refer patients with non-musculoskeletal presentations
• Well-developed assessment and treatment skills including manual therapy, exercise prescription, directing a class
• Presentation and teaching skills which can be utilised for In-Service Training / External Training
• IT Skills including the use of Outlook, Patient Administration Systems, Imaging Viewers, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams and video consulting.
• Ability to work integrally within a team, including taking direction and leading team activities where appropriate.

 Desirable

• MCSP
• Accredited MSK Training
• Accredited specialist training (Acupuncture / Clinical Pilates)
• MSc level learning
• Management training
• Experience of B6 level working
• Experience of working as a sole practitioner in Satellite Clinics
• Experience of working in a community hospital based service
• Experience in team leadership
• Ability to treat highly complex patient presentations autonomously
• Knowledge of Human Resources / Policy / Procedure associated with people management

Other requirements:

• Willing to work in other areas of the Trust or Trust-wide as and when required to do so.
• Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner
• Ability to attend service and departmental meetings held at various locations.
• Car driver with access to vehicle and appropriately insured

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

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