Lead Hydrotherapy Physiotherapist

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust; Bath; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS foundation is seeking an experienced musculoskeletal outpatient Physiotherapist with Hydrotherapy training to lead their Hydrotherapy service at the Brownsword Therapies Centre. This role involves delivering high-quality patient care, managing a caseload of patients, and providing supervision to the physiotherapy team, all while contributing to the Trust's broader patient care objectives.

Benefits

Comprehensive staff wellbeing program

Supportive, inclusive work environment

Access to ongoing professional development

Qualifications

• Experience supervising staff and delivering training.
• Knowledge of assessment tools and outcome measures.
• Experience in audit and research.

Responsibilities

• Manage hydrotherapy services, ensuring safe patient treatment.
• Plan and coordinate the Hydrotherapy service across the trust.
• Supervise outpatient physiotherapy team and provide training.

Skills

Advanced knowledge of hydrotherapy

Excellent interpersonal skills

Ability to work in stressful environments

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

HCPC Registration

Attendance of relevant postgraduate hydrotherapy courses

Job description

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Job Overview

Are you an experienced and enthusiastic musculoskeletal outpatient Physiotherapist with Hydrotherapy training? This substantive role offers a great opportunity to lead the Hydrotherapy service, delivering high level patient care both in the water and on land, within the Brownsword Therapies Centre.

Job Overview

Are you an experienced and enthusiastic musculoskeletal outpatient Physiotherapist with Hydrotherapy training? This substantive role offers a great opportunity to lead the Hydrotherapy service, delivering high level patient care both in the water and on land, within the Brownsword Therapies Centre.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will;

• To manage hydrotherapy to ensure safe treatment of patients in and out of water.
• To be the Specialist Physiotherapist for Hydrotherapy to facilitate movement and independence for patients with a range of complex musculoskeletal conditions.
• To be responsible for planning, co-ordinating, delivering, evaluating and developing the Hydrotherapy service throughout the Trust, on a day to day basis.
• Hold an individual complex caseload of hydrotherapy and musculoskeletal patients.
• Provide supervision and training to the outpatient Physiotherapy team.
• Report on progress of ongoing service projects relating to local, divisional and trust wide objectives.
• Deputise for Deputy Head of Therapies - Outpatients in their absence.
  
  

Working for our organisation

At the RUH we're proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centered care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.

Person specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• Advanced knowledge of broad range of conditions, professional and evidence based practice and new research in Hydrotherapy
• Experience of supervising staff
• Involvement in audit, research and understanding quality issues
• Knowledge of validated assessment tools and outcome measures
• Knowledge and experience of complying with trust policies
• Experience of delivering training
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of appraisal, supervision and teaching of Band 5/6 staff, assistants and students.
• Training in clinical supervision and/or leadership skills
• Knowledge of the workings of community physiotherapy services and intermediate care services
• Experience of implementing change
• Experience in staff recruitment and interviewing techniques
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
  
  

Qualifications & Training

Essential criteria

• Degree in Physiotherapy
• HCPC Registration
• Evidence of CPD
• Attendance of relevant postgraduate hydrotherapy courses
• Competent IT skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• CSP Member
• Involvement in Special Clinical Interest Groups
  
  

Specific Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• To be able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner and to keep accurate and legible patient notes
• To understand clinical governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit
• To be able to comprehend and work within all the Trusts’ policies of data protection, equal opportunities and health and safety
• To be experienced in performing specialist hydrotherapy assessments and treatments with patients with a variety of specific conditions
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of running internal/ external courses
• To have experience of organisation, prioritisation and delegation
  
  

Physical Skills & Emotional Effort

Essential criteria

• To have experience of working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers
• To carry out assessments and treatments of patients for several periods with moderate to intense physical effort whilst carrying out concurrent activities
• To deal sensitively with patients who have high levels of anxiety and aggression caused by pain, dementia or limited mobility
  
  

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Hydrotherapy Lead Physiotherapist JD & Person Spec (PDF, 419.9KB)
• Join the RUH (PDF, 1.1MB)
  
  

Further details / informal visits contact

Name James Crossfield Job title Deputy Head of Therapies - Outpatients Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01225821241

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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