Highly specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist (Band 7)

The post holder will assist the Team Lead in developing physiotherapy services within MSK outpatients. The role will include a large clinical caseload, clinical governance activity, supervision and the development of Band 6 and 5 physiotherapists, physiotherapy students and assistant staff working within the MSK outpatients setting. The post holder will also assist in coordinating a rolling programme of audit and training within the pathway.
You should be a dynamic and motivated physiotherapist, who can provide decisive and effective Physiotherapy input and can demonstrate leadership qualities, effective communication skills, a flexible approach and an ability to work under pressure, both as part of a team and independently.
You must have relevant clinical experience and teaching and organisational skills with evidence of CPD.
We are an innovative Therapy Service and offer a comprehensive supervision and appraisal structure to enhance your professional development.

Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream, Clinical
To undertake all aspects of clinical duties and to carry a significant caseload of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with complex presentations.
To work at an advanced level and to be professionally and legally accountable for a highly-specialised patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands.
To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, and of the local pathway teams' work. This will include the management of clinical risk, clinical governance, knowledge of indications and precautions of chosen techniques in line with national and trust clinical guidelines and protocols where they exist.
To assess patients' capacity, gain valid and informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management of the patient.
To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients including those with complex presentation, using investigative, palpatory, analytical and clinical reasoning skills.
Under supervision of the Physiotherapy Out-Patient Team Lead to request diagnostic procedures that will inform clinical decision making as appropriate to individual competency level and the job role.
To undertake physical treatment techniques utilizing highly developed manual skills.
To formulate individualized clinical management programs, utilizing a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a highly-specialized program of care.
To use recognized outcome measures to evaluate the effect of physiotherapy interventions and ensure that treatment programs are progressing appropriately
To provide spontaneous and planned expert advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines and agencies. To promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment program. To be consulted by staff within the local pathway and the trust
To ensure accurate, comprehensive and up to date clinical records are maintained in accordance with Trust guidance and professionally agreed criteria
To identify and employ suitable verbal and non-verbal communication skills with patients where there may be barriers to understanding or the inability to accept diagnosis. To facilitate the best possible communication outcome in every situation and use appropriate services, e.g. interpreters.
To ensure that individual practice and that of the local pathway team is patient focused and patient views are incorporated into treatment planning
To employ appropriate skills such as persuasion, motivation and negotiation to gain co-operation in the continuation of the agreed treatment program
To communicate with empathy, patient information which may be of a complex and sensitive nature including details of prognosis or disability that may be unwelcome
To receive complex patient related information from patients, relatives, carers and other professionals to effectively plan and develop individual case management
To communicate and advise regarding complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working within the physiotherapy service and with other professionals across health and other agencies to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multidisciplinary service
To be integral in discharge planning including liaison with referring hospitals or community staff to which patients are discharged, providing timely discharge reports
To produce comprehensive patient related reposts for other disciplines or agencies relating to assessment findings and or treatment outcomes
To undertake an extended scope role as appropriate to the needs of the service and supervised by the team lead (an extended scope practioner undertakes delegated responsibility on behalf of medical practioner(s) including the independent management of complete episodes of care of patients from referral to discharge)
To undertake the measurement and evaluation of work through audit, outcome measurement, the application of evidence based practice and research where appropriate. To identify and initiate audit projects to review current clinical practice within the pathway
To facilitate the implementation and evaluation of physiotherapy clinical outcomes within a designated pathway and monitor adherence with professional and national standards
To work to Trust and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy clinical guidelines and have a good working knowledge of relevant national standards to which quality of practice should be monitored.
To raise physiotherapy staff awareness of current clinical developments and the implication these may have on clinical practice
To be accessible and provide expert clinical advice to colleagues in particular for complex case management
Once considered competent to participate in the orthopedic week-end and bank holiday roster.
To fully participate in whatever pattern of working (including 7-day rosters) is required by the service in the future
All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which they are deemed competent in line with guidance from their professional bodies., To educate patients/relatives/carers regarding the nature of the condition and the aims of physiotherapy intervention
To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through continuing professional development activities including reflective practice, review of current research and relevant literature, maintenance of a personal portfolio and the attendance of specialist training courses as identified within a personal development plan
To participate in peer review as appropriate
To take an active role in appropriate uni professional and multi professional research initiatives
To provide regular training for designated pathway staff in local site
In collaboration with the Physiotherapy Out-Patient Team Lead, to initiate implementation of new working practices on designated site
In collaboration with the Physiotherapy Out-Patient Team Lead, to prepare, co-ordinate, participate and contribute to the delivery if a specific in-service training program for staff in the designated pathway
To train, assess and confirm competency of staff within the pathway on designated site
To undertake the tuition, supervision and performance assessment of undergraduate physiotherapy students. This will include working with universities to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification
To provide specialist teaching and instruction to other disciplines to ensure a consistent approach to patient care
To assist / support colleagues undertaking higher education, audit and research projects
To participate in mandatory / statutory training as required by the trust and national standards
To maintain state registration with the Heath and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and to provide evidence of that registration annually upon request
Service Management
To manage day to day workload and maintain level of service within the pathway at the local site and assist other members of the team to make appropriate prioritization choices. To ensure the effective exchange of information across the pathway team and co-ordination of service delivery
To use prioritizing and time management skills to meet the unpredictable and conflicting needs of the service
To participate in ensuring clear and open channels of communication exist within the physiotherapy pathway team. To ensure the cascade of received information including corporate, strategic ideas to all pathway staff
To maintain communication links and collaborative working patterns with other recognized experts and networks in the specialty
To participate in, and occasionally lead physiotherapy pathway meetings and to attend staff and managerial meetings as requested by the Physiotherapy Out-Patient Team Lead and Therapy managers
To be responsible for management of informal conflicts, disagreements and complaints in the local site pathway by using highly developed negotiation skills
To ensure all incidents, accidents and complaints within the pathway are reported and documents in the appropriate timeframe and in line with Trust policy. To ensure Therapy managers are made aware of all incidents, accidents and complaints
To monitor the quality of care provided in the designated pathway at the local site and promote a culture of evidence based practice within the team
To participate in the interpretation of professional and national standards for the specialty, recommending and implementing changes in clinical practice where indicated
To take responsibility for the regular inspection and safe use of equipment. To advise appropriate personnel of the need to review availability of suitable resources for patient care. To comply with Health and Safety requirements and follow the policy for safe disposal of equipment
To be aware of the cost/benefit implications in the selection and ordering of appropriate equipment to be provided to the patient for long term use as an individual and by the local pathway team
To maintain and provide accurate and timely activity information both as an individual and for the designated pathway. To do this in accordance with local and national requirements to help inform service delivery and evaluation
To adhere to the policies and procedure of the Trust and Physiotherapy service
To undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as requested by senior physiotherapy managers
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, organised and dedicated individual with good communication and interpersonal skills to join our physiotherapy team. This permanent position offers an exciting opportunity to work as a physiotherapy clinical specialist in the musculoskeletal outpatients setting at University Hospital Lewisham.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.