Senior Physiotherapist Orthopedic Outpatients

NHS Foundation Trust; Goole; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in England is looking for an experienced Orthopedic Physiotherapist to work in Goole Hospital. The role involves comprehensive patient assessments, managing a caseload with minimal supervision, and supervising students and Band 5 Physiotherapists. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and have at least one year of postgraduate experience in core clinical areas. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to advance in their career while contributing to high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Must have 1+ year of postgraduate experience in core clinical areas.
• Ability to travel around the geographical area in a designated timeframe.
• Evidence of CPD activities related to post.

Responsibilities

• Perform advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients.
• Manage own caseload with little supervision.
• Supervise and educate Physiotherapy students and staff.

Skills

Advanced physiotherapeutic assessment

Clinical reasoning

Patient education

Supervision of staff

Education

Relevant professional qualification

HCPC qualification

Job description

Job overview

Working in the Orthopedics Out‑Patients department at Goole Hospital, the job will involve:

• Performing advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse orthopedic presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions. Use advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide a diagnosis and to develop and deliver an individualized treatment programme.
• Responsible for managing own caseload and a defined area of the service, working without direct supervision.
• Supervise, educate and assess Physiotherapy students, Assistants and Band 5 Physiotherapists and provide specialist advice to other health care professionals in the specific clinical area.
• Undertake evidence‑based audit and research projects to further own and team’s clinical practice. Make recommendations to clinical lead/manager of service for changes to practice by the team and may lead the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to development of service protocols.
• Undertake comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations or multiple pathologies, using advanced clinical reasoning skills and a range of assessment techniques including manual assessment to provide an accurate diagnosis.
• Formulate and deliver an individual treatment programme based on this assessment and on knowledge of evidence-based practice and treatment options using specialised clinical assessment, reasoning skills and knowledge of treatment skills e.g. manual therapy techniques, patient education, exercise classes and other alternative options including aids or devices.
• The post would ideally suit an experienced Band 6 Therapist. Please see detailed job description and person spec attached.

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion. Made up of two Trusts — Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) — our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve. Together we employ nearly 20 000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH. As teaching hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas — biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology. We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work‑life balance for our employees. Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees. We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work‑life balance or a multi‑role career. Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on patient/service user experience, service delivery and work‑life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well‑being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients. We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Relevant professional qualification
• Relevant accredited courses or experience to equivalent level
• HCPC qualification
• Ability to travel around the geographical area in a designated timeframe

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of Masters level study

Occupational experience and abilities

Essential criteria

• Variety of post‑graduate experience in core clinical areas (min 1 year)
• Evidence of a range of CPD activities associated with clinical area of post

Desirable criteria

• Specific evidence of experience in the role related area.

Knowledge and skills

Essential criteria

• Experience of student / staff supervision
• Evidence of involvement in Quality Improvement activities e.g. audit or service development activities

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of working to support staff / students in relation to HR processes

Employer certification / accreditation badges