Band 7 Highly Specialist Physiotherapist Chronic Pain Service

NHS; Romford; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job description

Band 7 Highly Specialist Physiotherapist Chronic Pain Service

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Highly Specialist physiotherapist to join the multi-disciplinary pain management service at Queens Hospital. The team continues to rise to meet the challenge of providing high quality, modern therapy services within pain management. If you have the skills outlined and want a rewarding opportunity where you will be encouraged to be innovative whilst being valued and supported, then apply today.

The appointee will work with the existing Pain Consultants, a Clinical Specialist Pain Physiotherapists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, and a Consultant Psychologist, in delivering comprehensive assessments, treatments and Pain Management Programmes within a Multi-Disciplinary Team context. To have a key role in the delivery and development of the therapy aspect of the Chronic Pain Services and ensure they are consistent with the strategic objectives of the Trust and Division and will secure our position as a major national neurosciences and cancer centre.

You will be at the forefront of a multi-disciplinary team, delivering elements of our pain management programme, highly specialised physiotherapy clinics, joint clinics with Pain Physicians and Psychologists, leading our post intervention education and exercise programme, and involvement with the newly devised Spinal cord stimulator modality pathway, across the BHRUH CCG locality.

Main duties of the job

1. To provide specialist assessment, treatment, and advice to patients within pain management outpatients. To facilitate and maximise patient potential within service boundaries.
2. To give highly specialist guidance and advice to other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) and General Practitioners (GP's) on relevant matters as necessary.
3. To provide leadership for the physiotherapy team, in conjunction with the Clinical Lead, in planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating the physiotherapy service provided to pain management out-patients on a day-to-day basis.
4. To provide a lead role in teaching, supervising and appraising peers, student physiotherapists, physiotherapy assistants and technical instructors on a daily basis within the outpatient setting.
5. To deputise in the absence of senior colleagues as required.
6. To contribute to the day to day running and development of the service through the promotion, adaptation and development of policies, procedures and guidelines using evidence-based practices and current research.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.

Job responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Adeyemi Kaka, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5162. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

• Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
• Evidence of post graduate training and development to MSc level
• Member of appropriate specialist interest group

Experience/ Knowledge

• To have at least 1 year's clinical experience in the relevant field during band 6 rotations and a minimum of 3 years post-graduate training.

Skills/ Abilities

• Evidence of teaching skills with the use of different mediums
• Evidence of development of Biopsychological assessment and treatment skills

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.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

£51,883 to £58,544 a year Per annum Inclusive Pro Rata