Band 7 Enhanced Practice Physiotherapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the University Hospitals Dorset MSK Therapy Team for a full time band 7 enhanced practice physiotherapist.

Predominantly working as a clinical MSK and orthopaedic clinician, the post holder will act as a clinical lead for the lower limb team. This will involve managing a varied caseload covering outpatient MSK services and clinical work within the Dorset Musculoskeletal surgical interface service. The post-holder will hold leadership responsibilities within the wider MSK therapy team including clinical supervision and service development.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in an innovative and growing service, providing the highest quality of care for patients and leading the development of a growing and evolving service to shape it for the future.

Main duties of the job

To take a clinical leadership role in the delivery of therapy services to MSK therapy patients treated at University Hospitals Dorset and within the DMSK surgical interface service.

This post will predominantly involve the delivery of outpatient clinical care for lower limb outpatient MSK clinics and DMSK service.

The post holder will provide skilled leadership and responsibility for service development, the setting and monitoring of standards of practice and implement policy and policy changes in own clinical area. Furthermore, will participate and lead quality improvement projects across MSK Therapy and make recommendations to the team and service leads.

What we offer:

Management support to continue learning, with support from both the MSK Therapy Service and DMSK leadership structures.

This role involves enhanced practice, and the successful candidate will be supported in the training and delivery of enhanced practice skills to support their core practice. This may include injection therapy and imaging requesting and interpretation skills.

Our MSK outpatient clinics operate within exceptional gym facilities, enabling you to provide excellent quality of rehabilitation

Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Christchurch Hospital and Poole Hospital

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.

In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.