Band 7 Highly Specialist MSK Physiotherapist

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; East Finchley; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Training and career development

Generous benefits

Job summary

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist to join the MSK team. The role involves assessing and treating complex pain, teaching junior staff, and delivering services across two sites with flexible hours including evenings.

The post requires HCPC registration, a postgraduate MSK portfolio, and a track record in complex caseload management and bio-psychosocial approach.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate MSK specialist development portfolio
• HCPC registration as physiotherapist

Responsibilities

• Take professional and legal responsibility for own practice in line with Trust, CSP and HCPC standards
• Plan and manage own complex specialist caseload, prioritising clinical need and time
• Use advanced clinical reasoning and evidence to assess highly complex patients and deliver management plans autonomously
• Explore complex and distressing personal histories sensitively
• Assess and modify treatment aims and outcomes with patients, carers and the multidisciplinary team
• Use advanced communication and behaviour change skills to support long-term self-management
• Apply cognitive behavioural principles to improve functional capacity, including education, goal setting, exercise, relaxation and activity management
• Share responsibility for supporting junior and less experienced staff
• Teach and train junior staff and other healthcare professionals
• Deliver a mix of Telehealth and face-to-face consultations, one-to-one and in groups
• Work cross-site between the Barnet and Chase Farm sites, with extended and evening hours depending on demand

Skills

Advanced clinical reasoning

Leadership

Group work

Telehealth

IT skills

Education

BSc in Physiotherapy

Job description

This is a highly specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapy post in the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust's MSK team, working across two sites. The core of the work is assessing and treating patients with complex and persistent pain using a bio-psychosocial approach, delivered one-to-one and in groups, both remotely and in person. The role also carries teaching and supervision of junior colleagues, with extended hours and evening sessions depending on demand. Fit depends on a portfolio of postgraduate specialist MSK development and HCPC registration.

What the job involves

• Take professional and legal responsibility for own practice in line with Trust, CSP and HCPC standards
• Plan and manage own complex specialist caseload, prioritising clinical need and time
• Use advanced clinical reasoning and evidence to assess highly complex patients and deliver management plans autonomously
• Explore complex and distressing personal histories sensitively
• Assess and modify treatment aims and outcomes with patients, carers and the multidisciplinary team
• Use advanced communication and behaviour change skills to support long-term self-management of acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions and pain
• Apply cognitive behavioural principles to improve functional capacity, including education, goal setting, exercise, relaxation and activity management
• Share responsibility for supporting junior and less experienced staff
• Teach and train junior staff and other healthcare professionals
• Deliver a mix of Telehealth and face-to-face consultations, one-to-one and in groups
• Work cross-site between the Barnet and Chase Farm sites, with extended and evening hours depending on demand

Qualifications

• BSc in Physiotherapy, or diploma or equivalent
• Evidence or portfolio of postgraduate continued development in a specialist MSK area

Registration & licences

• HCPC registration as a physiotherapist

Experience

• In-depth knowledge and experience of complex and persistent pain, and of a range of approaches for complex conditions
• Working with patients of all age groups
• Multidisciplinary and interagency working
• Group work with patients
• Supervising staff and students, and teaching uni- and multidisciplinary groups
• Leading a team

Skills & knowledge

• Advanced clinical reasoning and management of complex patients
• Clinical governance, national standards and critical appraisal of research
• Excellent, assertive communication with patients and staff on complex and sensitive issues
• Organisational skills to manage caseload and meet deadlines
• IT skills including Telehealth

Other

• Self-motivated and flexible, able to work independently and in a team
• Able to comply with Trust manual handling guidelines

Nice to have

• Evidence of study, or intention to study, at masters level
• Membership of a specialist interest group
• Working at Band 7 level
• Evidence of working across face-to-face and virtual mediums

What's offered

• Flexible hours
• Generous benefits (not itemised in the advert)
• Training and career development