About this role
Job summary
Band 8A Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner - Pelvic Health & Maternity
PLEASE NOTE: Sponsorship is not normally available for this vacancy - applicants must have the right-to-work in the UK for this role by their proposed start date.
Are you a dynamic individual with extensive pelvic health and maternity clinical and leadership experience?
Are you passionate about patient-centred care and do you value working in a positive team environment focused on peer support and development?
We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity to come and join our team at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. We are a GOOD rated hospital following CQC inspection and are looking to employ a highly skilled, forward thinking, dynamic individual as a clinical specialist Physiotherapist working in pelvic health and maternity.
The post is suitable for an experienced physiotherapist with past leadership and service development experience. The post will be operating across the Outpatient Physiotherapy department and, working with individuals with a variety of complex needs.
The successful applicant will have extensive NHS pelvic health and maternity experience and possess excellent assessment, clinical reasoning, treatment and teaching skills.
There is a possibility this role could be offered as a Band 7 Advanced Practice Training post, dependent upon applicant qualifications. This would be determined at interview stage.
Main duties of the job
To oversee and provide clinical leadership for the pelvic health and maternity physiotherapy team with implementation of the perinatal pelvic health services.
To undertake an Advanced Practitioner clinical and leadership role within the pelvic health/maternity department at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.
To provide highly specialised physiotherapy assessment and management to a highly specialised clinical caseload that frequently have complex and/or chronic or life limiting conditions, without supervision.
Interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical data to form accurate diagnoses and prognoses informing complex decision making, ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient-focused care.
To act as an expert Advanced Practitioner and leader within the wider musculoskeletal therapies team.
To act as the lead clinical representative on agreed clinical and service development groups and boards.
To provide highly specialist care of complex patients including Advanced Clinical interventions and management as appropriate.
To provide expert training, advice and clinical education to service providers, service users and service commissioners.
To lead and support audit and research projects and identify opportunities for research in relation to Pelvic Health services, in order to evaluate service delivery.
About us
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our Trust "CARE" values:Compassionate,Aspirational,Resourceful,Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented team to make this happen.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details of the job role.
If there are any questions please link in with the key contact.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Qualifications Essential
HCPC Registration Degree or other recognised qualification in Physiotherapy MSc in Advanced Practice related to specialty area, or working towards attaining MSc, or equivalent experience Extensive post-graduate training in maternity/pelvic health conditions
Desirable
Clinical leadership training or equivalent
Experience Essential
Extensive post-graduate clinical experience Clinical Leadership experience at a senior level Service development and clinical leadership within a multi-faceted organisation Experience of using research and other evidence to inform and drive practice
Desirable
Previous experience in an advanced practice/extended scope role Change management experience
Skills Desirable
Proven experience of leading a team
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Address Royal Berkshire Hospital
London Road
Reading
RG1 5AN
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)