Clinical Specialist FTC

1 week ago


Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom Connect Health Full time
About the role

We at Connect Health are delighted to be growing our team of talented clinicians and are currently looking for a Clinical Specialist in Pain who is passionate about providing high-quality patient-centred care to join us as part of a large multidisciplinary team in the East Sussex Pain Services.

The service in Sussex provides a tailored approach to the individual service user. The successful candidate will be required to work a hybrid working pattern facilitating face to face clinics in a number of sites in the Sussex and Hastings area, Pain Management Programmes both face to face and online and telephone reviews. They will be joining a multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, nurses and wellbeing practitioners who are committed and passionate about providing a biopsychosocial model of care to people with persistent pain.

We are dedicated to delivering the highest level of patient care, in the most efficient and cost-effective way, with re-investment to ensure services are sustainable. We are looking for well-organised Clinical Specialist in Pain, to deliver quality clinical care for patients with chronic pain. Whilst undertaking comprehensive assessment and diagnosis of patients with a wide variety of physical and emotional needs, you must formulate, deliver, review and progress individual treatment programmes and ensure effective treatment, specialist advice and timely discharge are achieved.

We are committed to a multi-professional workforce based on competency and welcome applications from Physiotherapists, Nurses and Occupational Therapists. You'll be registered with an appropriate professional body and ideally be a qualified practitioner that works within Pain. If you're able to manage a varied caseload of chronic pain patients, committed to CPD and have the desire to develop yourself and the service, with a keen eye on improving patient care, then we'd like to hear from you.

Join our motivated, ambitious, and fast-growing team. We focus on competency, developing talent and offer great flexibility.

Main duties of the role will see the successful post holder utilising their specialist skills to

  • Assess patients' requirements, in relation to their goals. Plan, manage and review functional and psychological restoration for individuals and groups.
  • Review care plans at timely intervals and communicate effectively with the patient's GP, advising on ongoing and flare up management plans agreed with the patient.
  • Provide safe, effective and dignified care according to best practice and national guidelines.
  • To provide advice and treatments to individual patients within best practice and national guidelines.

Who we are looking for:

Previous experience in delivering pain services with tangible results.

  • Current valid registration with your relevant professional body or equivalent regulator (HCPC or NMC)
  • A keen and enthusiastic clinician with a commitment to providing excellent, personalised care as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • An understanding of the impact of chronic pain in the wider community and how collaborative working across the local system enables prevention and addresses health inequalities
  • Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner, within scope of practice and deliver a quality clinical service meeting the clinical and operational needs of the Pain service with senior support as required.
  • To contribute to the development of, and promote a positive and dynamic image and culture to both internal and external stakeholders. At all times striving to reflect and encourage our core value behaviours
  • To develop and foster productive relationships with local stakeholder groups, charities, GPs, and other potentially productive links.

About Connect

Connect Health is the largest and most experienced independent community healthcare provider in the UK encompassing mental health, rehabilitation, physiotherapy, tier-2 MSK (musculoskeletal), chronic pain, long Covid, First Contact Practitioners (FCP) and rheumatology services, serving over 375k NHS patients pa across 29 NHS ICBs (Integrated Care Boards).

Why work for Connect Health?

At Connect we're passionate about investing in our colleagues, fostering professional growth, and ensuring everyone feels appreciated. We believe that happy and engaged colleagues provide exceptional patient care and will be motivated to perform at their best. Here's a glimpse of what we offer you:

Professional Development: Enjoy a minimum of 5% of your working hours dedicated to your personal growth and development. Attend internal conferences, study days, and access clinical support tools and pathways to excel in your role and career.

Generous Holiday Entitlement: Benefit from up to 30 days of holiday (plus public holidays) to relax and recharge. You'll also get another day off for your Birthday. If you'd like even more holiday to enjoy you can participate in our generous holiday buy and sell scheme.

Wellness Support: Access a suite of health support tools and an employee assistance program for your well-being so you can be at your best and be your true self.

Performance Awards: Excel in your objectives and be rewarded further for your hard work with a range of pay, gifts and incentives awarded alongside attending our annual colleague awards to be treated and feel special.

Savings and Support: Make huge saving by making the most of Blue Light and Healthcare Services discounts as well as the very important employer pension contributions and a Christmas savings club.

Membership Fee Reimbursement: Save your pennies, as we cover the cost of role required professional membership fees.

Connect Clinical Education Academy: Access a wide range of bespoke learning opportunities with live and recorded sessions, to enhance your clinical knowledge and skills across all clinical pathways.

Collaboration Opportunities: Engage with our entire clinical team through, including emergency clinical on-call support, clinical supervision, coaching and mentoring.

Team Building: Join in on team-building and away days to build strong connections with your colleagues.

Flexibility: Work in a way that supports home live, through hybrid working options and flexibility in working hours and times.

These benefits are our way of expressing gratitude for your continuous dedication and contribution to Connect Health. We value you and are committed to making your experience with us even more rewarding.

"The best thing about Connect Health? For me it's the opportunity to develop and be part of an organisation that aren't afraid to innovate whilst keeping the patient at the centre of everything we do." – Connect Health MSK Clinician, Spring 2022



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