Band 7 Highly Specialist Physiotherapist – ME/CFS

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Experience

  Significant post-registration physiotherapy experience, including specialist practice at Band 6 level or equivalent with complex long-term conditions.

• Experience

  Experience of independently assessing, managing and reviewing a complex caseload, recognising risk and seeking senior advice appropriately.

• Experience

  Experience of multidisciplinary working and coordinating care with patients, carers and other professionals.

• Experience

  Experience of delivering patient education or group interventions and supporting individual self-management.

• Experience

  Experience of supervising, teaching or supporting junior staff, support workers or students.

• Experience

  Experience of clinical audit, outcome measurement or quality improvement.

• Skills and aptitudes

  Highly developed assessment and clinical reasoning skills; ability to formulate individual care plans, evaluate outcomes and identify red flags.

• Skills and aptitudes

  Knowledge of current NICE ME/CFS guidance, post-exertional malaise, energy management and the implications for safe physiotherapy practice.

• Skills and aptitudes

  Ability to tailor interventions to symptoms and energy limits, recognise flare-ups or relapse, and avoid approaches inconsistent with NICE guidance.

• Skills and aptitudes

  Ability to manage competing priorities and an autonomous caseload while working within competence and agreed escalation pathways.

• Skills and aptitudes

  Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including sensitive discussion of complex information and adaptation to cognitive or accessibility needs.

• Skills and aptitudes

  Ability to facilitate patient education and groups, promote shared decisions and support sustainable self-management.

• Skills and aptitudes

  Ability to provide supervision, feedback and teaching and to delegate clinical work safely.

• Skills and aptitudes

  Knowledge of safeguarding, consent, capacity, clinical governance, risk management and information governance.

• Skills and aptitudes

  Ability to maintain clear, accurate clinical records and use electronic records, virtual platforms and outcome data.

• Skills and aptitudes

  Ability to critically appraise evidence and contribute to audit and service improvement.

• Royal Free shared commitments

  Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust’s shared commitments.

• Personal qualities and attributes

  Compassionate, respectful and non-judgemental approach that recognises the impact of ME/CFS and values patients’ experiences.

• Personal qualities and attributes

  Commitment to inclusion, accessible care and reasonable adjustments.

• Personal qualities and attributes

  Effective team working, reliability and willingness to seek supervision and support colleagues.

• Personal qualities and attributes

  Reflective practice, self-awareness and commitment to continuing professional development.

• Personal qualities and attributes

  Ability to respond constructively to change, feedback and emotionally challenging clinical situations.

• Personal qualities and attributes

  Ability to fulfil the clinical and service duties of the post with reasonable adjustments where required.

• Education and professional qualifications

  Degree or diploma in Physiotherapy, or equivalent recognised qualification.

• Education and professional qualifications

  Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Physiotherapist.

• Education and professional qualifications

  Evidence of relevant postgraduate learning and continuing professional development in specialist physiotherapy and management of complex long-term conditions.