Senior MSK Physiotherapist

Job overview

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

The Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapy Team are part of Integrated Musculoskeletal services: Physiotherapy Outpatients, Community Orthopaedics and the Community Chronic Pain Service.

We provide musculoskeletal outpatient physiotherapy to the local population working in community hospital physiotherapy departments and outreach clinics. We run a hybrid model of face to face and virtual consultations.

You will provide comprehensive musculoskeletal assessment and treatment of outpatients.

A Band 6 Health Care Professional (HCP) will effectively and efficiently manage a complex caseload of musculoskeletal patients while assisting in the education and training of physiotherapy colleagues, apprentices, assistants and students.

Main duties of the job

Band 6 MSK Physiotherapists work closely with the people who use our services, families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services.

Band 6 MSK Physiotherapists are expected to be kind, responsive and professional, contributing to the quality of the services we provide by:

• Keeping the people who use our services safe through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures Ensuring the people that use our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with them.
• Keeping the people who use our services safe through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments
• Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures
• Ensuring the people that use our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with them.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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