Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner – Pelvic Health & Maternity

Job overview

Band 8A Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner – Pelvic Health & Maternity

PLEASE NOTE: Sponsorship is not normally available for this vacancy - applicants must have the right-to-work in the UK for this role by their proposed start date.

Are you a dynamic individual with extensive pelvic health and maternity clinical and leadership experience?

Are you passionate about patient-centred care and do you value working in a positive team environment focused on peer support and development?

We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity to come and join our team at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. We are a GOOD rated hospital following CQC inspection and are looking to employ a highly skilled, forward thinking, dynamic individual as a clinical specialist Physiotherapist working in pelvic health and maternity.

The post is suitable for an experienced physiotherapist with past leadership and service development experience. The post will be operating across the Outpatient Physiotherapy department and, working with individuals with a variety of complex needs.

The successful applicant will have extensive NHS pelvic health and maternity experience and possess excellent assessment, clinical reasoning, treatment and teaching skills.

There is a possibility this role could be offered as a Band 7 Advanced Practice Training post, dependent upon applicant qualifications. This would be determined at interview stage.

Main duties of the job

To oversee and provide clinical leadership for the pelvic health and maternity physiotherapy team with implementation of the perinatal pelvic health services.

To undertake an Advanced Practitioner clinical and leadership role within the pelvic health/maternity department at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

To provide highly specialised physiotherapy assessment and management to a highly specialised clinical caseload that frequently have complex and/or chronic or life limiting conditions, without supervision.

Interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical data to form accurate diagnoses and prognoses informing complex decision making, ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient-focused care.

To act as an expert Advanced Practitioner and leader within the wider musculoskeletal therapies team.

To act as the lead clinical representative on agreed clinical and service development groups and boards.

To provide highly specialist care of complex patients including Advanced Clinical interventions and management as appropriate.

To provide expert training, advice and clinical education to service providers, service users and service commissioners.

To lead and support audit and research projects and identify opportunities for research in relation to Pelvic Health services, in order to evaluate service delivery.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details of the job role.

If there are any questions please link in with the key contact.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.