Highly Specialist MSK Physiotherapist

Job description

Job summary

This exciting role is an opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced individual to utilise their leadership and musculoskeletal skills as part of our established MSK Physiotherapy service. Working as a highly specialist MSK Physiotherapist in a busy and vibrant MSK department.

A dynamic and motivated individual would contribute to the MSK physiotherapy service based at HMG and Leominster community hospitals MSK Physiotherapy departments in the beautiful Herefordshire county managing an adult caseload of MSK patients across the spectrum of acute and chronic conditions in secondary care.

Whilst also benefitting from a committed and supported development program to support the progression of MSK service within Herefordshire, the candidate will provide clinical and mentorship within the MSK department.

The successful candidate would work as part of a committed and progressive MSK team including specialist physiotherapists, advanced practice and FCP colleagues.

Please read the Job description and Personal Spec for full details and requirements of the role.

Main duties of the job

This role will combine a demanding clinical caseload of adult MSK patients as well as the day-to-day management of a small MSK department, the successful candidate will be expected to provide a high quality service demonstrating advanced clinical reasoning for patients with diverse and complex presentations.

The successful candidate will be able to participate in local and national research and audit as well as identify and initiate improvement across the wider MSK service.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view the Job description and person specification attached to this vacancy in the supporting documents.

Job description
Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view the Job description and person specification attached to this vacancy in the supporting documents.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

• Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Physiotherapy
• HCPC Registration
• Evidence of relevant and up to date post graduate training within MSK Physiotherapy(level 7 or above)
• Leadership qualification or significant experience of leading a team in a healthcare setting

Desirable

• Working towards stage 1 HEE Roadmap to FCP

Experience

Essential

• Extensive post graduate MSK physiotherapy experience including NHS primary and secondary care
• Experience of supervision, teaching and support of physiotherapy staff/ students

Desirable

• Experience at Band 7 MSK Physiotherapy or equivalent

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

• Highly specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions
• Evidence of highly specialist MSK physiotherapy skills and ongoing CPD
• Experience of complex multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping
• Computer skills including clinical noting
• Ability to manage own caseload, prioritise workload and optimising performance capability of local MSK team
• Highly specialist MSK assessment skills with clinical reasoning and analytical ability
• Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance
• Ability to work autonomously using own knowledge, skills and initiative in highly complex situations
• Audit & Research

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Able to maintain confidentiality and professionalism within the environment that they are working
• Able to demonstrate awareness of own limitations and need to ask for help
• Evidence of ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in written documentation
• Evidence of ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in written documentation
• Able to work as part of a Team
• Evidence of being a reliable and diligent Physiotherapist

Other Factors

Essential

• Ability to fulfil the travel requirements of post
• Able to meet physical & moving and handling requirements of post. I.e. re-positioning of a patient, use of moving & handling equipment, approved manual physical movement practices of patient
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats

Person Specification
Education & Qualifications

Essential

• Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Physiotherapy
• HCPC Registration
• Evidence of relevant and up to date post graduate training within MSK Physiotherapy(level 7 or above)
• Leadership qualification or significant experience of leading a team in a healthcare setting

Desirable

• Working towards stage 1 HEE Roadmap to FCP

Experience

Essential

• Extensive post graduate MSK physiotherapy experience including NHS primary and secondary care
• Experience of supervision, teaching and support of physiotherapy staff/ students

Desirable

• Experience at Band 7 MSK Physiotherapy or equivalent

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

• Highly specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions
• Evidence of highly specialist MSK physiotherapy skills and ongoing CPD
• Experience of complex multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping
• Computer skills including clinical noting
• Ability to manage own caseload, prioritise workload and optimising performance capability of local MSK team
• Highly specialist MSK assessment skills with clinical reasoning and analytical ability
• Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance
• Ability to work autonomously using own knowledge, skills and initiative in highly complex situations
• Audit & Research

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Able to maintain confidentiality and professionalism within the environment that they are working
• Able to demonstrate awareness of own limitations and need to ask for help
• Evidence of ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in written documentation
• Evidence of ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in written documentation
• Able to work as part of a Team
• Evidence of being a reliable and diligent Physiotherapist

Other Factors

Essential

• Ability to fulfil the travel requirements of post
• Able to meet physical & moving and handling requirements of post. I.e. re-positioning of a patient, use of moving & handling equipment, approved manual physical movement practices of patient
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats

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

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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address

Leominster Community Hospital

Leominster

HR6 8JH

United Kingdom

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