This Advanced Pain Clinician role sits within Cora's community pain management service, managing a varied caseload of patients with chronic pain. The work centres on assessing and diagnosing patients with a wide range of physical and emotional needs, then building, reviewing and progressing individual treatment programmes through to timely discharge. Hybrid working and flexible hours are on offer, and the post welcomes applications from physiotherapists, osteopaths and nurses. Applicants need current registration with a recognised regulator such as the HCPC, GOsC, SST or BASraT.
What the job involves
- Assess and diagnose patients with chronic pain and a wide range of physical and emotional needs
- Formulate, deliver, review and progress individual treatment programmes
- Ensure effective treatment, specialist advice and timely discharge
- Manage a varied caseload of chronic pain patients
- Drive the quality of audits and the integration of evidence-based practice
- Provide specialist teaching in chronic pain
- Lead on service change and innovation
- Develop team members
What’s required
Qualifications
- Qualified clinician working within MSK practice
- Professional background as a physiotherapist, osteopath or nurse
Registration & licences
- Current valid registration with HCPC, GOsC, SST or BASraT, or an equivalent regulator
Experience
- Delivering pain rehabilitation with tangible results
- Proven track record of influencing patients, people, commissioners and pathways
- Experience of developing team members
Skills & knowledge
- Deep understanding of the impact of chronic pain in the community and how collaborative working reduces health inequalities
- Educational acuity to develop and deliver specialist chronic pain teaching
- Drive to deliver innovation and lead change
- Ability to influence audit quality and the integration of evidence-based practice
Other
- Outstanding values that underpin clinical expertise and people management
- Commitment to excellent, personalised care
- Commitment to CPD and to developing self and the service
Nice to have
- BSc in Physiotherapy or a nursing degree
- Pain management experience in a community setting
What’s offered
- Minimum 5% of working hours for development, plus Cora Clinical Education Academy learning
- Up to 30 days' holiday plus public holidays, an extra day off for your birthday, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
- Wellness support tools and an employee assistance programme
- Performance awards, gifts and an annual colleague awards event
- Blue Light and healthcare discounts and employer pension contributions
- Reimbursement of role-required professional membership fees
- Clinical supervision, coaching, mentoring and emergency on-call support
- Hybrid working and flexibility in working hours and times
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
