Consultant Physiotherapist

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits at a leading healthcare institution for a Consultant Physiotherapist. This role involves providing innovative clinical leadership within the musculoskeletal physiotherapy team, contributing to service transformation and ensuring high-quality patient care. You will engage in education and research, collaborating with academic institutions to enhance practice. Join a dynamic team dedicated to excellence, where your contributions will shape the future of physiotherapy services and improve patient outcomes across the region.

Qualifications

• Expert practitioner in musculoskeletal physiotherapy with clinical autonomy.
• Strong leadership and teaching skills to support staff development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the MSK physiotherapy service ensuring clinical excellence.
• Contribute to education, training, research, and policy development.

Skills

Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy

Clinical Leadership

Teaching Skills

Research Skills

Presentation Skills

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

Postgraduate qualifications in MSK

Job description

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An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Therapies service at King’s for an expert with strong clinical experience in the field of musculoskeletal physiotherapy.

The post is based within the musculoskeletal physiotherapy Consultant team. You will be key to service transformation work and deliver the Clinical Leadership for the MSK and MCATS services.

King’s is a Major Trauma centre and a centre of excellence for Neurosurgery. The physiotherapy service has strong links to clinics and consultants in these specialities as well as Orthopaedics; Rheumatology and Primary Care in Southwark and Lambeth. You will be contributing to pathway improvement within King’s hospitals and the community and across the region to share best practice. We aim to achieve high quality care in the right place at the right time for all patients.

You will have an active role in education & research both within King’s Health Partners (King’s College Hospital; King’s College London; Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Trust) and across the regional network. Therefore you will have strong, teaching, and presentation skills including lecturing.

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust serves the local populations of Lambeth, Southwark and Bromley Boroughs. There will be opportunities to have influence over future service design for the sector.

To be an expert practitioner in musculo-skeletal (MSK) physiotherapy, to carry a caseload and work with an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability in the provision of clinical care to patients, carers and professional colleagues.

• To be an expert consultant providing innovative clinical leadership and contribute to the strategic direction of the Trust and the physiotherapy profession in the management of patients with musculo-skeletal disorders
  
  

To contribute to leadership and delivery of the KCH MSK physiotherapy service by providing monitoring and evaluation of a high quality, safe, effective and efficient service, ensuring maintenance of clinical excellence and facilitating patient access within safe parameters

• To lead, develop and support staff within the MSK physiotherapy service, providing education and supervision & professional development to senior physiotherapy clinicians as well as the wider team
  
  

To work in collaboration with academic institutions and lead on & initiate education, training, research, audit and practice development within the field of Musculo-skeletal physiotherapy at KCH, and support other staff in their development

To contribute to planning and policy development within physiotherapy, the Care Group and the Trust

• IT is expected that this post will be approximately minimum 50% clinical practice.
  
  

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Frankie Northfield Job title: Head of Physiotherapy Email address: [e-mail]

Seniority level

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  Director

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