Job summary
Employer heading
Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist - Musculoskeletal
Band 7
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job overview
Based within the MSK physiotherapy outpatient department at Chepstow Community Hospital and Monnow Vale Community Hospital. The post holder will also be required to work from GP practices within Monmouthshire and provide specialist musculoskeletal assessment, diagnosis, triage and treatment in the role as a First Contact Practitioner
We are looking for a dynamic and highly skilled Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist to join our team. You will have experience in all aspects of musculoskeletal management, demonstrate forward thinking skills to combine highly specialist clinical practice with innovation. You will be committed to following best practice and the promotion of high quality physiotherapy services.
As a clinical specialist you will have demonstrable leadership qualities and excellent communication and time management skills with proven abilities to build networks across sites and disciplines. Through your knowledge of emerging clinical advances within the speciality, you will be expected to advise and inform strategic planning and future service development.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work within the musculoskeletal physiotherapy team, providing day to day clinical leadership and support for staff. They will provide clinical assessment and treatment as required by the service demands at Chepstow Community Hospital and Monnow Vale Community Hospital.
The post holder will also be required to work from GP practices in Monmouthshire and provide specialist musculoskeletal assessment, diagnosis, triage and treatment in the role as a First Contact Practitioner.
The post holder will be supported by a consultant Physiotherapist and the Clinical Lead Physiotherapists. The Physiotherapy Service encourages staff development through internal and external training programs, including speciality forums, clinical audit and research and clinical supervision and mentoring. We have a structured personal appraisal system in place with annual reviews underpinned by the Knowledge and Skills Framework.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board strives to be a diverse and inclusive workplace where we can all be ourselves.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff. We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work. Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Other
Essential criteria
- The ability to move between sites within the Health Board or patients’ residences if required by the job role
Desirable criteria
- The ability to speak Welsh
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- The ability to discuss advanced clinical reasoning in the management of complex cases
- The ability to identify and act upon adverse clinical signs
- Good communication skills both verbal and written when interacting with members of the team, other staff, patients and their families
- The ability to lead and work effectively in a team environment
- Evidence of initiative
- Good time management
- The ability to design and lead a Health Board wide training programme
- the ability to discuss the ethos of clinical governance and its implementation in practice
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development sufficient to meet HCPC requirements
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience at Band 6 with appropriate experience within MSK and orthopaedic field
- Significant senior postgraduate clinical experience encompassing complex case management
- Senior post graduate experience requiring people management skills
- Experience of and commitment to leading clinical and organisational audit
- Experience of and commitment to teaching locally at an undergraduate and postgraduate level
- Experience of developing and implementing clinical guidelines and standards
- Experience of supervising staff
- Experience of presenting to a wider audience
- Evidence of having worked unsupervised at a senior level
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in Primary Care
- Evidence of contributing to change management and innovation in clinical practice
- Published work in recognised journal
- Experience of working closely with medical practitioners
- Experience of representing the physiotherapy profession in public/professional arena
- Experience of integrating user participation in service development
- Experience and awareness of research principles and findings and the impact on clinical practice
- Evidence of having worked in the UK as a HCPC registered Physiotherapist
Education
Essential criteria
- Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy
- Appropriate range of postgraduate clinical education
- Completion of Clinical Educators’ Course or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- MSc or working towards relevant higher qualification
- Active participation in a relevant interest group
- Advanced Practice skills, i.e. non-medical prescribing
- Completion of an appropriate advanced assessment, diagnostic and treatment course that is recognised/accredited at M Level
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Bethan Webster
- Job title
- Interim Physiotherapy Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01873 732305
- Additional information
Nathan Chidwick
Clinical Lead
01291 636673
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