Band 7 Pain and Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapist

Job overview

Opportunities for 4 or 5 days working

Whittington Health is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced Physiotherapist to join our Adult Community Services team in a unique 50/50 split role between the Haringey Community Pain Service and Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapy Service.

Working across both services, you will provide specialist assessment, treatment and management for patients with complex musculoskeletal and persistent pain conditions, while contributing to multidisciplinary team working, service development and the delivery of evidence-based care.

Based across sites in Islington and Haringey, this role offers excellent opportunities to develop advanced clinical skills in both pain management and musculoskeletal physiotherapy, supported by experienced senior clinicians, Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioners and a wider multidisciplinary team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to broaden your expertise, develop your career and help shape high-quality community services within a supportive and dynamic organisation.

Click to find out more about our Adult Community Services, what it is like to work for Whittington Health, and why you should join our team.

Main duties of the job

Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be expected to:

• Triage electronic referrals regularly.
• Effectively use and ensure that the electronic patient database records reflect your current caseload and activity; with timely discharge and outcome appointments.
• Provide high quality physiotherapy including assessment, treatment and advice to patients with various Neuromusculoskeletal presentations.
• Assess and treat own caseload of patients, and maintain associated records as an autonomous practitioner with support from senior staff when required.
• Communicate with other health professionals, patients and carers with regard to the delivery of patient focused care.
• Participate in departmental continuous professional development, departmental education and training, audit and evidence-based projects.
• Undertake all necessary verbal and written documentation required for patient care.
• Have clinical supervision on a regular basis with senior staff. Supervision can take the form of formal training, clinical reasoning, peer review, case reviews and reflective practise.
• Supervise and appraise juniors and students.
• Provide education, training and supervision to physiotherapists, students and other staff as appropriate.
• Assist in the operation and development of MSK Outpatient Service provision across Whittington Health.

Please read the personal specification carefully to ensure your application clearly demonstrates all of the essential criteria. Please provide examples in your supporting information to show how you meet these criteria.

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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.