Job summary Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner - Pelvic Health and Maternity - F/T 2 years 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.
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 Clinical Practitioner clinical and leadership role within 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 Clinical Practitioner and leader within the wider musculoskeletal therapies team To support the Professional lead of Therapies in the development of relevant service and clinical initiatives and modernisations.
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 The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest District General Hospitals in the country.
The hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1st June 2006.
It was the first Foundation Trust in the South Central Strategic Health Authority.
The Trust has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for500,000 patients across West Berkshire, an area extending from Newbury in the west to Henley-on-Thames in the east, and including Wokingham and parts of Hampshire to the south and parts of Oxfordshire to the north.
The Trust is Reading's biggest employer.
Our innovative Therapies Practice Education Team are an integral part of our staff's experience in their roles.
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Person Specification Experience Essential Degree or diploma in Physiotherapy MSc or equivalent experience HCPC Registered Extensive post graduate clinical experience Demonstrable experience of delivering a service based on the needs of the patient Service development and clinical leadership experience within a multi-faceted organisation Experience of mentoring and training clinical staff and students, across multidisciplinary teams Experience of using research and other evidence to inform and drive practice Extensive Post Graduate training in maternity/pelvic health conditions Desirable Previous experience of working in an extended scope role/ Advanced Clinical Practitioner role Change management experience Experience of leading clinical governance initiatives Knowledge and Skills Desirable Proven experience of leading a team Clinical Leadership training or equivalent Experience of proactively engaging with service users and commissioners Experience of leading clinical governance initiatives