Pain Management Occupational Therapist

We at Connect Health are delighted to be growing our team of talented clinicians and are currently looking for a Pain Management Occupational Therapist (Clinical Specialist) who is passionate about providing high-quality patient-centred care to join us as part of a large multidisciplinary team in the North West Pain Services. The North West Pain Service provides a tailored approach to the individual service user. The successful candidate will be required to work a hybrid working pattern facilitating face to face and remote clinics in a number of sites in the North Manchester and Rochdale area, Pain Management Programmes both face to face and online and telephone reviews. They will be joining a multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, nurses and wellbeing practitioners who are committed and passionate about providing a biopsychosocial model of care to people with persistent pain. We are dedicated to delivering the highest level of patient care, in the most efficient and
cost-effective way, with re-investment to ensure services are sustainable. We are looking for well-organised Clinical Specialist in Pain, to deliver quality clinical care for patients with chronic pain. Whilst undertaking comprehensive assessment and diagnosis of patients with a wide variety of physical and emotional needs, you must formulate, deliver, review and progress individual treatment programmes and ensure effective treatment, specialist advice and timely discharge are achieved.

Previous experience in delivering pain services with tangible results. Current valid registration with your relevant professional body or equivalent regulator (HCPC or NMC) A keen and enthusiastic clinician with a commitment to providing excellent, personalised care as part of a multidisciplinary team An understanding of the impact of chronic pain in the wider community and how collaborative working across the local system enables prevention and addresses health inequalities Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner, within scope of practice and deliver a quality clinical service meeting the clinical and operational needs of the Pain service with senior support as required. To contribute to the development of, and promote a positive and dynamic image and culture to both internal and external stakeholders. At all times striving to reflect and encourage our core value behaviours To develop and foster productive relationships with local stakeholder groups, charities, GPs, and other
potentially productive links.

Connect Health is the largest and most experienced independent community healthcare provider in the UK encompassing mental health, rehabilitation, physiotherapy, tier-2 MSK (musculoskeletal), chronic pain, long Covid, First Contact Practitioners (FCP) and rheumatology services, serving over 375k NHS patients pa across 29 NHS ICBs (Integrated Care Boards).