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Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner

Royal Berkshire Nhs Foundation Trust, Reading

Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner

£60504

Royal Berkshire Nhs Foundation Trust, Reading

  • Full time
  • Temporary
  • Onsite working

, 13 Nov | Get your application in now before you're too late!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 04f9e9776a2549a69c4d51461398981b

Full Job Description

  • To oversee and provide clinical leadership for the pelvic health and maternity physiotherapy team with implementation of the perinatal pelvic health services.
  • To undertake an Advanced Clinical Practitioner clinical and leadership role within pelvic health/maternity department at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.
  • To provide highly specialised physiotherapy assessment and management to a highly specialised clinical caseload that frequently have complex and / or chronic or life limiting conditions, without supervision.
  • Interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical data to form accurate diagnoses and prognoses informing complex decision making ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient focused care.
  • To act as an expert Advanced Clinical Practitioner and leader within the wider musculoskeletal therapies team
  • To support the Professional lead of Therapies in the development of relevant service and clinical initiatives and modernisations.
  • To act as the lead clinical representative on agreed clinical and service development groups and boards.
  • To provide highly specialist care of complex patients including Advanced Clinical interventions and management as appropriate.
  • To provide expert training, advice and clinical education to service providers, service users and service commissioners.
  • To lead and support audit and research projects and identify opportunities for research in relation to Pelvic Health services in order to evaluate service delivery.

    Are you a dynamic individual with extensive pelvic health and maternity clinical and leadership experience?
    • Are you passionate about patient-centred care and do you value working in a positive team environment focused on peer support and development? We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity to come and join our team at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. We are a GOOD rated hospital following CQC inspection and are looking to employ a highly skilled, forward thinking, dynamic individual as a clinical specialist Physiotherapist working in pelvic health and maternity. The post is suitable for an experienced physiotherapist with past leadership and service development experience. The post will be operating across the Outpatient Physiotherapy department and, working with individuals with a variety of complex needs. The successful applicant will have extensive NHS pelvic health and maternity experience and possess excellent assessment, clinical reasoning, treatment and teaching skills.,
  • Degree or diploma in Physiotherapy MSc or equivalent experience
  • HCPC Registered
  • Extensive post graduate clinical experience
  • Demonstrable experience of delivering a service based on the needs of the patient
  • Service development and clinical leadership experience within a multi-faceted organisation
  • Experience of mentoring and training clinical staff and students, across multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience of using research and other evidence to inform and drive practice
  • Extensive Post Graduate training in maternity/pelvic health conditions
    • Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of working in an extended scope role/ Advanced Clinical Practitioner role
  • Change management experience
  • Experience of leading clinical governance initiatives, Proven experience of leading a team
  • Clinical Leadership training or equivalent
  • Experience of proactively engaging with service users and commissioners
  • Experience of leading clinical governance initiatives, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

    Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated 'Good' with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust's overall rating has also improved to 'good'. This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust. Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.
    • At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is "Working together to provide outstanding care for our community." We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don't you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical. Diversity is what makes us interesting… Inclusion is what will make us outstanding. Inequality exists and the journey to eliminate it is not easy. Every step we take will be a purposeful step forward to deliver a truly inclusive culture where all our people are enabled to deliver outstanding care, where background is no barrier, and where everyone can be their authentic self and we truly represent our patient community., The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest District General Hospitals in the country. The hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1st June 2006. It was the first Foundation Trust in the South Central Strategic Health Authority. The Trust has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for 500,000 patients across West Berkshire, an area extending from Newbury in the west to Henley-on-Thames in the east, and including Wokingham and parts of Hampshire to the south and parts of Oxfordshire to the north. The Trust is Reading's biggest employer. Our innovative Therapies Practice Education Team are an integral part of our staff's experience in their roles. Please follow this link to see more of what we do! https://youtu.be/dFeVzr_UqCw, By applying for this post you are agreeing to Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are appointed to a post information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information. All new appointments to the Trust, with the exception of executive positions, are subject to a 6 month probationary period. The Trust may close any vacancy prior to the advertised closing date due to the high level of responses we receive for some of our vacancies. Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust's sites.

    Staff Benefits
  • Flexible working opportunities and a strong emphasis on your work, life balance
  • Annual leave - 27 days for new starters, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years NHS service. Pro rata for part time staff
  • NHS pension scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Money Advice Service
  • Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave for eligible staff
  • On-site nursery (based at RBH)
  • Full educational library services
  • Cycle to work scheme, lockable storage for cycles
  • Bus to work scheme
  • Excellent rail and bus links
  • A huge range of Health Service Discounts at hundreds of big brands from holidays to gadgets and restaurants to retail.

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