Team Leader and Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist - Pelvic Health

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Pelvic Health Physiotherapist to join our Pelvic Health Physiotherapy Service to help support the existing team as a Clinical Specialist and Team Leader. The team works closely with our maternity, urogynaecology, urology, colorectal and general consultant teams, and local specialist physiotherapists. The team is currently expanding into the management of complex pelvic pain patients and working closely with the Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) to develop exciting new changes to physiotherapy care for the postnatal population., You will be responsible for your own outpatient caseload which includes patients with urinary, bowel and pelvic floor dysfunction and, on occasion, referrals from our local community musculoskeletal services for specialist antenatal musculoskeletal reviews. Your caseload will include patients presenting with complex pelvic pain. You will already have prior postgraduate training in vaginal and anorectal examinations and will have experience of managing highly complex patients autonomously.
As Team Leader you will have responsibilities to support the team with training and development of existing staff, and students on clinical placement, day-to-day management of the team, as well as take an active role in service development. You will also be expected to provide clinical support to staff members involved in inpatient working on the maternity and gynaecology wards.

Working for our organisation
JPUH is a vibrant university hospital providing the best possible care to the people of east Norfolk and north Suffolk. We are situated on the coast with several beautiful beaches and the Broads National Park on the doorstep, and we are within commuting distance of Norwich city centre.
The Integrated Therapy Department are a positive and forward-thinking multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dietitians and therapy assistant practitioners.
Personal and professional development is key within the James Paget University Hospital and the Integrated Therapies Department, and we are currently in the process of developing our research and innovation strategy in line with the recently released AHP Research and Innovation Strategy.
We will support you in achieving your career goals, through our well-structured supervision and appraisal system. The department actively encourages the utilisation of courses and training opportunities provided and signposted through our Operational Development and Wellbeing Service.
As part of the role, you will be key in supporting the team to provide education not only within the Integrated Therapies Department but to our wider workforce, from healthcare assistants to qualified/overseas nursing staff and our medical colleagues., + Provide clinical management and leadership of a therapy team to achieve high quality, responsive and efficient care alongside a supportive role for the whole of therapy services to include operational and service development support under the direction of the Clinical Services Therapy Leads for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy
+ To take a lead role in advanced assessment and treatment of female, male and paediatric pelvic health patients, who will often have highly complex and/or chronic presentation and for whom embarrassment and/or anxiety will often provide a barrier to communication. Use of advanced clinical reasoning skills to determine clinical diagnosis and physiotherapy treatment indicated and to maintain records as an autonomous practitioner
+ To keep abreast of new research and development within the speciality, identifying any learning needs within the team and arrange training as necessary
+ To provide leadership and line management to integrated therapy staff in the pelvic health speciality and wider department including recruitment, appraisals, performance and sickness absence management. To be responsible for service development within the speciality and wider service development workstreams
+ To implement policy and policy changes in own clinical area, which affect the whole service and the Trust. To support implementation to the therapy-wide service
+ To plan, co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate the therapy service (occupational therapy and physiotherapy) provided to the speciality on a day-to-day basis. This includes ensuring the team's workload is appropriately prioritised and work is effectively distributed and co-ordinated across the team on a day-to-day basis. To support therapy-wide staff co-ordination as required
+ To represent the therapy team at relevant team meetings including the Business and Governance meetings, and at Trust meetings as requested by Clinical Lead
+ To provide clinical excellence, advice and support for all health care professionals within the speciality
+ To provide specialist advice and guidance in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the pelvic health speciality who may have complex and/or chronic presentation and to support clinical staff to determine clinical diagnosis and therapy treatment indicated
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The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of around 250,000 people in the Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney areas. The Trust provides an integrated hospital and community children's service.
Patient and staff experience is important to us and these are the behaviours we live by:
+ Putting patients first
+ Aiming to get it right
+ Recognising that everybody counts
+ Doing everything openly and honestly