MSK Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Occupational Health

Location - Scotland/North East

Full time, Mon-Fri, x40 hours per week (30 minute unpaid lunch)

To work as an autonomous practitioner and deliver a quality clinical service meeting the clinical and commercial needs of PPS. To strive for clinical excellence in the management of musculoskeletal and occupational health problems, to ensure optimal outcomes for patients and customers. To develop and promote a positive and dynamic image and culture to both internal and external stakeholders, reflecting and encouraging PAM values & behaviours.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and foster productive relationships with key external stakeholders within the region e.g. Occupational Health partners, HR, Health & Safety professionals, referring line managers and employees.
• Work with the Clinical Governance Director and Regional Clinical Operation Directors to ensure clinical delivery is designed, developed, and delivered in line with the highest standards as defined by relevant professional bodies and in line with evidence-based guidance.
• Provide clinical leadership across the region, demonstrating PAM values and actively supporting and championing PPS strategy.
• Provide expert clinical insight and leadership of occupational health clinical governance matters such as incidents, complaints and leading on lessons learnt being disseminated across your region.
• Work at or towards Advanced Practice level clinical practice, ACPOHE Registered membership and competency level C.
• Contribute to ongoing clinical development of occupational health care and service pathways, standards, policies, services and guidelines to drive continuous improvement across occupational health services.
• Contribute to teaching within PPS and PAM academy.
• Delivery of non-core services to clients within designated region and support training and development of PPS clinicians.

Key Tasks:

• Utilise specialist occupational health expertise to function as an experienced practitioner managing a complex clinical caseload and delivering consultancy and training services.
• Conduct onsite clinics and remote and virtual services for occupational health customers.
• Assessment of fitness for work, functional capacity assessments, workplace assessments and ergonomic workplace risk assessments.
• Delivery of manual handling training, train the trainer and ergonomic risk assessor training, DSE assessor training.
• Delivery of health and wellbeing projects and initiatives focusing on healthy lifestyles and behaviour change.
• Mentor other MSK clinicians in an OH service.
• Provide clinical leadership to designated region and act as a source of expertise in the management of musculoskeletal conditions and occupational health challenges.
• Regularly involved in workplace ergonomics and job design.
• Support quality assurance, governance, audit and evaluation.
• Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of clinical and professional activities.
• Demonstrate a commitment to ongoing professional development and maintain a contemporary record of such activity, in line with recommendations of CSP and HCPC.
• Contribute to service development initiatives and other ad-hoc projects and tasks as agreed with line manager.
• Contribute as required to internal and external educational initiatives and PAM academy.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary audit research and evaluation of the clinical effectiveness and evidence base for the management of occupational health and musculoskeletal conditions.
• Work collaboratively with Operational Leadership to optimise the delivery of occupational health services in your region.
• Contribute as required to continuous improvement and clinical excellence in occupational health services including supporting clinical supervision.
• Stay abreast of the latest clinical research and evidence-based practice and use this knowledge to enhance occupational health practice and the way PPS delivers services.
• Contribute to bid-writing, stakeholder meetings and other business development activity in region.
• Ensure personal mandatory training is up to date including refresher training.
• Perform any other reasonable tasks.

Key Performance Measures:

• Support Clinical quality reporting for region.
• Support Clinical governance performance regarding clinical quality, safety and patient satisfaction for region.
• Support operational key performance indicators for region.
• Performance and competency development of occupational health clinical staff in region.

Personal Profile:

The role of a MSK Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Occupational Health is fundamentally about the consistent delivery of quality clinical management of musculoskeletal conditions in occupational health. Expected to be positive, constructive, and approachable, always carrying out tasks with fairness and integrity. From a clinical perspective, they will have or be working towards a postgraduate qualification in a clinically relevant area or provide evidence of expertise and experience relevant to the role and be able to provide a highly specialised source of expertise within the team. They will have a strong track record of service delivery, leadership and teaching in this area and be expected to inspire and contribute to clinical development of colleagues.

The MSK Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Occupational Health is expected to be well organised, conscientious, and capable of managing the varied and often challenging demands of a caseload of complex patients in a variety of clinical and potentially pressured environments. Excellent communication skills are vital to the role and must be able to communicate confidently and effectively with both patients and internal and external key stakeholders alike. Ideally, they should have good IT skills and be willing to embrace innovation and technological advances that improve service delivery.

Essential Qualifications:

• BSc or MSc (pre-registration) qualification.
• Registered with a regulator for the profession.
• Post-graduate qualification relevant to occupational health and/or relevant experience and/or evidence of OH MSK expertise relevant to the role.
• Ideally three years plus experience within OH setting.
• Confidence in interacting with and representing a multi-professional workforce.
• Understanding of Occupational Health service provision and customer interface.
• Understanding of Workplace Health and government services working towards increasing employment opportunities for people with ill health.
• Ability to interact confidently with Key stakeholders in a corporate environment.
• Experience of delivering clinical supervision and teaching.

Desirable Experience/Qualifications:

• Experience in presenting clinical material at meetings and conferences.
• Experience in clinical leadership.
• Experience in being effective in meetings with internal and external key stakeholders.
• Formal training in clinical leadership.
• Experience in incident and complaint investigation and handling.
• Experience in safeguarding.
• Technical or Registered membership or experience on committees for special interest groups e.g. ACPOHE.
• Working towards ACPOHE competency level C.

Variation:

The duties of this post may be subject to variation from time-to-time following consultation with the post holder.

Health & Safety:

It is the general duty of every employee to take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and others (including patients). This may involve the wearing of suitable protective clothing and footwear, and cooperating with the management in meeting its responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act. Any failures to take such care or any contraventions of safety or managerial instructions may result in disciplinary action being taken.

Confidentiality:

All staff are required to respect confidentiality of all matters that they may learn relating to their employment, other members of staff and the public and will be required to confirm their compliance with relevant codes of conduct.

Benefits:

• We pay your auto-enrolment pension contribution of 8%, you can also make enhanced contributions which are matched up to a further 5%.
• 33 days annual leave including bank holidays with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days (FTE).
• Life insurance scheme valued at 4x your annual salary.
• Income protection.
• Health Cash Plan Scheme, which covers you for things like Opticians, Dental Treatment and even Physio if needed!
• Perkbox membership with amazing discounts on things like food and drink, retail and days out, all through our rewards scheme.
• Long service rewards.
• Flexible Working Hours.
• Access to a 24/7 EAP Counselling line and a 24/7 GP line and wellness support.
• Support with training and development.
• Group Income Protection.

PAM group are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone is valued and respected. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender expression, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion and socioeconomic status. We believe everyone should have the same opportunities for employment and promotion based on their ability, qualifications and suitability for the work.

The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees and provide support to clients from all over the country.