Musculoskeletal (MSK) Outpatient Physiotherapist

You will be required to be flexible, to move across sites according to the department needs and therefore transport will be essential.
Full and part time hours will be considered.
As a DCHS employee it will be your responsibility to ensure that your behaviour and values reflect those set out in the DCHS Way.
As a Physiotherapist working within our service you will:
+ Assess, diagnose, advise and treat patients with a variety of musculoskeletal conditions.
+ Be responsible for the management of patients on your caseload.
+ Maintain professional autonomy, being responsible for the management of your own patients whilst working within Trust and National guidelines.
+ You will be a key member of the outpatient physiotherapy team responsible for delivering a high quality physiotherapy service., To formulate and deliver individual treatment programmes based on sound knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options, using clinical assessment, reasoning skills and treatment skills, eg respiratory therapy techniques, exercise therapy, patient education, and other techniques as appropriate.
To effectively use a wide range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to negotiate and engage with patients across a diverse multicultural and intellectual spectrum. This will include patients who may have difficulties with understanding or communicating. For example, people with a learning disability, blind, deaf, dysphasic, cognitively impaired or who do not have English as a first language.
To appropriately convey complex information to other health and social care professionals to ensure collaborative working and the delivery of a coordinated multidisciplinary patient-centred service.
To formulate accurate prognoses and recommend best course of intervention.
Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
Be responsible for organising and planning own caseload and others (e.g. Technical Instructors/Physiotherapy Assistants) and use of other resources to meet service and patient priorities, re-adjusting plans as situations change/arise, eg other colleague's sickness/annual leave.
To use acquired knowledge to identify those patients requiring on-going rehabilitation and refer to the most appropriate service to fulfil these needs in order to facilitate discharge.
Be responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient treatment records in line with DCHS NHS Trust and HPC Standards, including producing timely and informative written reports and discharge summaries.
Be responsible for collecting statistics as required by the clinical areas and DCHS for service level monitoring.
Participate in staff appraisal scheme and be responsible for complying with your agreed personal development programme and the progression of those appraised.

+ You will have previous experience of working as a physiotherapist, including working in musculoskeletal outpatients.

Derbyshire Community Health Services has a great opportunity for a Physiotherapist to join our Derbyshire Musculo-skeletal Outpatient Physiotherapy team, based in Belper, Ashbourne and High Peak and Dales.
We offer a supportive environment with senior clinical mentorship and leadership support across all of our teams.
We have an established mentorship and in-service training programme, offering CPD time. People joining the Trust would be eligible to join the DCHS preceptorship programme.
(2024/25 pay award is due to be reflected in pay from October 2024, with any arrears due paid in November 2024), Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.
We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations., Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust (DCHS) is one of the largest providers of specialist community healthcare in England and we currently employ around 4,500 staff. We deliver a variety of services across Derbyshire, caring for nearly 1.8 million patients each year.
We deliver patient care through 11 community hospitals, 4 minor injury units, 29 health centres and a learning disability centre. Another key part of our service is out in the community where we care for people in their own homes via therapists, health visitors and district nurses, and promoting public health in the wider community. As a Trust we care for patients of all ages with a special focus on the needs of elderly people and the very young.
DCHS has been recognised as a top 10 NHS organisation to work for in the UK by the Health Service Journal and NHS Employers in their Best Places to Work 2015 campaign. The Trust is also the runner-up in the category for the best NHS community trust employer.

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Our vision "to be the best provider of local healthcare and to be a great place to work"
Our values:
1) To get the basics right
2) To act with compassion and respect
3) To make a difference
4) To value and develop teamwork
5) To value everyone's contribution because everyone matters

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for our service and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.