Band 6 - MSK Outpatient - UCLH in London

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) are searching for an experienced Band 6 Senior Physiotherapist to join our Musculoskeletal Outpatient Service. UCLH is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.

Job Purpose

To provide autonomous, advanced musculoskeletal Physiotherapy management to patients referred to the service by Consultants. To contribute to the education and supervision of qualified and unqualified staff and students. To contribute to the management of the department, audit, clinical governance and to maintain personal CPD. To participate in the provision of emergency weekend and public holiday services as required. Please note this role will be Monday - Friday, 1.0 FTE.

Responsibilities to patient/client care

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of professional activities, working as an autonomous practitioner and seeking advice from more senior staff where appropriate.
• To undertake the comprehensive assessment of a wide range of patients, including those with diverse or complex musculoskeletal presentations, using advanced manual assessment techniques and clinical reasoning skills to determine impairments and disabilities and to formulate a diagnosis/hypothesis and prognosis.
• To use knowledge of evidence-based practice and assessment findings to formulate, plan and deliver a specialised individual patient-centred physiotherapy management programme and to evaluate patient progress and alter treatment programmes on a daily basis.
• To create soundly clinically reasoned prognoses and recommend best course intervention, based on evidence available, and develop negotiated goals.
• To develop advanced knowledge of anatomy and physiology, particular conditions, their contraindications and precautions, and patient types specific to individual musculoskeletal presentations or specific rotations.
• To be involved in health promotion and to facilitate the understanding of the aims of rehabilitation package, to optimise patient management and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
• To provide education to patients, carers, relatives and other health care professionals in the management of the patient's condition.
• To have appropriate clinical knowledge to triage patients according to their clinical need under the occasional guidance of more senior staff.
• To perform advanced assessments and treatments of musculoskeletal conditions on a daily basis as an advanced practitioner requiring daily moderate but variable physical effort during sessions lasting from 10 minutes to 60 minutes per patient.
• To work in an environment where work patterns are occasionally interrupted by demands from patients, carers, other clinical staff and students including responding to telephone queries.
• To use highly developed physical skills including dexterity, coordination and sensory skills for manual therapy assessment and treatment.
• To work in areas where the environment may have artificial lighting, variable temperatures, poor ventilation and inadequate ergonomics.
• To work with the possibility of exposure to body fluids, unpleasant smells, infections, hydrotherapy chemicals, and exposure to verbal or physical aggression.
• To sensitively deal with distressing or emotional circumstances regarding patient care e.g. imparting news of poor prognoses such as chronic pain management or lifelong disability or conveying news of realistic outcomes following injury or surgery.
• To be responsible for the safe and competent use of all equipment used in the course of patient management, including gym, electrotherapy and hydrotherapy equipment and to report any equipment faults to relevant agency.
• To work as a lone practitioner in clinics, on wards and hydrotherapy as required.
• To participate in the emergency weekend rota, assessing and treating patients as required.
• To assess and manage clinical risk within own patient caseload and to be aware of and advise on risks involved in the caseloads of other junior team members.
• To respect the individuality, values, cultural & religious diversity of patients & contributes to the provision of a service sensitive to their needs.
• To lead in patient management / treatment which may include interaction with other disciplines; to advise and educate patient/carers/relatives/other health professionals.

Requirements

• HPC registration
• Physiotherapy degree/or equivalent
• Evidence of commitment to advanced clinical and non-clinical continued professional development within Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, e.g. post registration training, management competencies and evidence of a detailed personal development portfolio
• Awareness of current evidence pertaining to musculoskeletal physiotherapy and application to clinical practice, using advanced clinical reasoning skills
• Significant post-registration/work experience as a physiotherapist
• Previous NHS Outpatient Physiotherapy post registration experience
• Band 5/6 experience including on call emergency duty, respiratory care, rehabilitation, orthopaedics in and outpatients

Benefits

We are so grateful for the commitment and focus of our Bank Staff, so in return we offer the following advantages:

• Access to free Bank Partners Core Skills training.
• Guaranteed line of work.
• Weekly pay.
• Competitive pay.

Apply now for this fantastic career-progressing opportunity by attaching your CV, and a member of our recruitment team will be in contact with you shortly.