Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist - Specialist in Pain Management

Split role 50:50 MSK/Pain Management Physiotherapist OrFull time Pain Management Physiotherapist

This is an exciting opportunity to join Whittington Health and develop a new community pain service in Haringey. We are seeking a senior physiotherapist or experienced band 6 with a keen interest in pain management to take on this role.

You will join a Pain MDT that includes Pain Consultants, Pain Psychologists, Advanced Practice Physiotherapists, Pain Management Physiotherapists, specialist service manager and dedicated administrative staff. You will provide holistic care in an MDT-led team to treat persistent pain in a community setting (group based as well as individual).

You will be supervised by a Pain specialist APP and will have access to Pain CPD alongside MSK CPD.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will manage a caseload of complex persistent MSK Pain presentations from triage to discharge in line with current best practice. The role will include assessment, 1-2-1 and group treatment, case discussions with other members of the team, different professions, in the MDT meeting and joint treatments with Pain Psychology staff as appropriate.

The post holder will act as a clinical Pain Management Physiotherapy expert for the Haringey Community Pain Service as well as supervise senior Pain Management Physiotherapists. The in-service training, appraisal and personal development programmes are well established for all staff and all departments providing a friendly working environment with supportive and experienced clinicians.

You will need to have a caring and mature attitude to work closely with patients and with staff in our department.

The focus of this role is on high quality pain management care in the community.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

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Job responsibilities

Please read Personal Specification and Job description 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.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• Degree / Diploma in Physiotherapy leading to HCPC registration
• Membership to the CSP
• Membership of other professional groups (PPA/MACP/SOM/clinical Interest groups)
• Good knowledge of the research process

Skills and abilities

• Evidence of substantial post-registration training in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy and/or Pain Management
• Experience in monitoring and supervising MSK staff/ students
• Previous experience teaching Pain Management and Musculoskeletal physiotherapy staff/students and other professionals

Personally/professionally responsible

• Ability to self-motivate and motivate others
• Able to demonstrate good communication, report writing and presentation skills.
• Demonstrable high level clinical reasoning skills in managing MSK patients and Pain Management patients.
• Keep legible and accurate records
• To be confident in the use of electronic patient records and trust reporting systems

Knowledge and experience

• Specialised knowledge of the current management guidelines and evidence in the safe treatment of Musculoskeletal disorders
• Broad awareness of Musculoskeletal physiotherapy provision of care and local, professional, Trust and wider policies and agendas
• Awareness of developments in NHS / DoH and multi-agency Musculoskeletal service delivery.
• Involvement in clinical audit/evaluation projects

Personal Qualities

• Strong ethos of team working and supporting colleagues to achieve team goals
• Ability to carry out concurrent activities and work in an unpredictable work environment
• Ability to cope with regular exposure to patients that may be distressed and may display aggressive or abusive behaviour.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Haringey Community Pain Clinical and Service Lead

£53,751 to £60,651 a yearPer Annum (pro rata) Including HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time,Flexible working,Compressed hours