Spinal Practitioner

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits at a leading healthcare provider, where you can join a dedicated team focused on spinal health. As an Advanced Spinal Practitioner, you will play a vital role in managing chronic spinal pain, collaborating closely with surgical and medical teams. This position offers a chance to enhance your skills in assessment and diagnostics while making a significant impact on patient care. With a commitment to professional development and diversity, this organization strives to provide world-class healthcare. If you are passionate about advancing your career in physiotherapy and making a difference, this role could be your next big step!

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Support for job applications

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• BSc Hons in Physiotherapy required, with MSc preferred.
• Proven competency in interpreting x-rays and MRIs.

Responsibilities

• Manage triage and assessment of chronic spinal patients.
• Work with surgical teams for patient treatment selection.

Skills

Advanced practice in spinal pain management

Assessment and diagnostic skills

Communication with multidisciplinary teams

Injection Therapy

Non-medical prescribing

Education

BSc Hons in Physiotherapy

MSc or equivalent in relevant field

Tools

X-ray interpretation

MRI interpretation

Blood test interpretation

Job description

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Advanced Spinal Practitioner Service at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. The Spinal Practitioner service is responsible for the triage, assessment, and management of all chronic spinal patients referred to the spinal outpatient department. The service has successfully grown over the last 10 years and now manages over 60% of all the outpatient spinal activity.

Main duties of the job

The Spinal Practitioner role requires a highly motivated therapist who has an interest in developing advanced practice in the management of spinal pain. The Spinal Practitioner service has become an integral part of the specialist spinal unit at NUH and supports the degenerative, deformity and emergency pathways. The successful candidate will work closely with surgical and medical teams to appropriately select and list patients for interventional treatments and become an expert advisor and leader for spinal conservative management within the trust and local community. The role will involve evening and weekend working.

Working for our organisation

The Spinal Practitioner service is responsible for the triage, assessment, and management of all chronic spinal patients referred to the spinal outpatient department. The service has grown over the last 10 years and now manages over 60% of all the outpatient spinal activity. In 2019, the spinal service opened an assessment area (NSAU) that could pull acute, non-traumatic spinal pain patients from ED. The Advanced Spinal Practitioner service is now an integrated part of the emergency care pathway. The post would suit an experienced physiotherapist who wishes to develop their assessment, diagnostic and reasoning skills in the management of degenerative spinal pain. The post will be supported by the Advanced Spinal Practitioner team and Consultant Physiotherapist.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

• BSc Hons in Physiotherapy, or equivalent.
• Proven competency and postgraduate training on the referral to & interpreting of x-rays (IRMER) / MRI’s / Blood tests.
• Evidence of maintaining professional competence through CPD.
• MSc or equivalent in relevant field.
• Non-medical prescriber.
• Injection Therapy.

Experience

• Significant post-graduate experience, including a wide variety of rotations and experiences at Band 6 in orthopedic specialty.
• Experience in evaluation of practice.
• Experience of audit and EBP implementation.
• Awareness of legislation relating to health and safety, litigation and Data protection.
• Band 7 experience in spinal outpatient field.
• Experience of involvement in research.

Communication and relationship

• Participation and leading/organizing in-service training programs.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team. Ability to lead the team where appropriate.
• Able to communicate complex condition-related information to patients, relatives/carers and other clinical/social care staff where there may be barriers to understanding e.g. language barriers, speech, cognitive problems.

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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavor to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

NUH are now able to offer application completion support and interview preparation support. Please follow the link to book onto our sessions: Support for NUH Job Applications.

If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available.

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro-rata basis for part-time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID.

Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations and screening tests as relevant to the post.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post may be subject to a DBS check which incurs a cost dependent on the level of check required (£42.90 for enhanced and £22.90 for standard).

For more information about our organisation and the career opportunities available, please visit our website and/or follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Name: Carla Eveleigh, Job title: Advanced Spinal Physiotherapist, Email address: [e-mail]