Pelvic Health Physiotherapist

Job overview

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Band 7 Pelvic Health Physiotherapist to join our Outpatient Therapy team. The post holder will work across both our Primary & Secondary Care pathways providing advanced assessment, diagnosis, and management of patients with complex pelvic health conditions, including bladder and bowel dysfunction, pelvic pain, and antenatal/postnatal presentations.

The service is delivered across three hospital sites, and the successful candidate may be expected to work flexibly and collaboratively across locations to ensure equitable, high-quality care.

Working autonomously within a specialist team, you will play a key role in service development, the delivery of evidence-based practice, and supporting integrated pathways across primary and secondary care. The role also includes leadership responsibilities such as supervising junior staff and students, contributing to education and training, and working with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, effective, and patient-centred care in line with organisational and national standards.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a highly specialist, high standard Physiotherapy service, assessing and advising on patients care & treatment, as an autonomous practitioner within Pelvic Health.
• Be a clinical lead for therapy staff across the service area providing clinical advice and training and liaising with other appropriate Therapy leads to ensure an integrated service is provided for the service area.
• Provide support and advice for the continuous development, co-ordination and evaluation of the pelvic health pathways (therapy and trust pathways)
• Provide a source of expert clinical opinion within the field of pelvic health physiotherapy for therapy staff and other health care professionals both internal and external to the Trust.
• Provide knowledge and expertise on the Physiotherapy assessment and management of a broad range of pelvic health conditions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Be professionally & legally responsible & accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients in own care. Ensure a high standard of clinical care for patients under own management & support more junior staff to do likewise.
• Interpret & analyse clinical & nonclinical facts to form accurate diagnosis & prognosis in on wide range of highly complex conditions to recommend the best course of intervention, evaluate outcomes, reassess & to develop comprehensive treatment plans.
• Undertake comprehensive assessment of patients including those with complex presentation, investigate & analyse skills & formulate individualised management & treatment plans to formulate specialised programmes of care.
• Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals & gain informed consent in order to work within the legal framework for patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• Accept clinical responsibility for own caseload & organise this effectively & efficiently with regard to the clinical progress the patient. Oversee/supervise the caseload of more junior staff to ensure patients are prioritised according to acuity of need across the service areas.
• Provide highly specialist clinical technical services contributing to diagnosis, care of treatment within the speciality as appropriate.
• Maintain a clean safe environment ensuring adherence to Trust standards of cleanliness hygiene & infection control at all times.
• Deliver training to rotational staff to ensure competence in carrying out duties within the service area.
• Regularly participate in working parties developing policy changes within the Therapy Department & other specialities within the Clinical Support group
• Work with Consultants and other agencies to refer patients and develop the strategic & operational management of the specialist service area within the relevant professional service guidelines & practices.
• Provide spontaneous & planned advice, teaching & instruction to relatives, carers & other professionals to promote understanding of the aims of the Therapy Department and to ensure a constant approach to patient care.
• Provide specialist advice, teaching & training to other members of the MDT regarding the management of patients.
• Regularly manage expected & unexpected clinical events requiring high & unpredictable levels of physical effort according to patient dependency & clinical need.

For further details please see the attached job description.