Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner – Pelvic Health & Maternity

The Royal Berkshire; Reading; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Band 8A Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner specialising in Pelvic Health and Maternity in Reading. You will lead a multidisciplinary pelvic health physiotherapy team and provide highly specialised assessment and management for a complex caseload.

The post emphasises clinical leadership, service development, and teaching across the department, with opportunities for research and training.

Qualifications

• Extensive pelvic health and maternity expertise.
• Leadership and service development experience.
• Advanced clinical assessment, reasoning, and teaching skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and provide clinical leadership for the pelvic health and maternity physiotherapy team.
• Deliver highly specialised assessment and management for complex cases.
• Provide expert training, advice and clinical education to staff and service users.
• Lead and support audit and research projects related to pelvic health services.

Skills

Pelvic health

Maternity

Clinical leadership

Audit & research

Job description

Band 8A Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner – Pelvic Health & Maternity

PLEASE NOTE: Sponsorship is not normally available for this vacancy - applicants must have the right-to-work in the UK for this role by their proposed start date.

Are you a dynamic individual with extensive pelvic health and maternity clinical and leadership experience?

Are you passionate about patient-centred care and do you value working in a positive team environment focused on peer support and development?

We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity to come and join our team at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. We are a GOOD rated hospital following CQC inspection and are looking to employ a highly skilled, forward thinking, dynamic individual as a clinical specialist Physiotherapist working in pelvic health and maternity.

The post is suitable for an experienced physiotherapist with past leadership and service development experience. The post will be operating across the Outpatient Physiotherapy department and, working with individuals with a variety of complex needs.

The successful applicant will have extensive NHS pelvic health and maternity experience and possess excellent assessment, clinical reasoning, treatment and teaching skills.

There is a possibility this role could be offered as a Band 7 Advanced Practice Training post, dependent upon applicant qualifications. This would be determined at interview stage.

To oversee and provide clinical leadership for the pelvic health and maternity physiotherapy team with implementation of the perinatal pelvic health services.

To undertake an Advanced Practitioner clinical and leadership role within the pelvic health/maternity department at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

To provide highly specialised physiotherapy assessment and management to a highly specialised clinical caseload that frequently have complex and/or chronic or life limiting conditions, without supervision.

Interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical data to form accurate diagnoses and prognoses informing complex decision making, ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient-focused care.

To act as an expert Advanced Practitioner and leader within the wider musculoskeletal therapies team.

To act as the lead clinical representative on agreed clinical and service development groups and boards.

To provide highly specialist care of complex patients including Advanced Clinical interventions and management as appropriate.

To provide expert training, advice and clinical education to service providers, service users and service commissioners.

To lead and support audit and research projects and identify opportunities for research in relation to Pelvic Health services, in order to evaluate service delivery.

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

Our Trust "CARE" values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented team to make this happen.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jessica Riddy Job title: Team Lead MSK Outpatients Physiotherapist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01183226513

Jessica Riddy (Team Lead MSK Outpatients Physiotherapist) [e-mail] / 0118 322 6513

Alistair Clapham (Head of Therapies) [e-mail] / 0118 322 5440