Pelvic Health Physiotherapist

Overview The Women's and Men's Pelvic Health Physiotherapy service is based at Whittington Hospital with a responsibility to provide inpatient and outpatient services, community clinics, and group exercise and advice sessions. The service is closely linked with Women’s Health, Urology and Colorectal Consultants, Midwives, Specialist Nurses and GP services. The service is led by a Therapy Manager, supported by the Pelvic Health ESP Physiotherapist and Team Lead as well as Band 4 support staff. Experience would be advantageous but an MSK Physiotherapist with enthusiasm and drive to develop within the speciality of Pelvic, Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy would be considered. Funding may be made available for a course specific to development into this area. You will be encouraged and supported to develop your clinical, teaching and managerial skills and be actively involved in service development. Working for our organisation 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. Role You will work as an autonomous practitioner in a specialist Band 6 role to provide a high standard physiotherapy service to patients within Whittington Health Physiotherapy Services. Your work plan may include inpatient and outpatient duties, providing group exercise and advice sessions, and attending multidisciplinary meetings. You will provide supervision and training for graduate Physiotherapists, Therapy Assistants and Technicians, and students, and be involved in teaching colleagues from other disciplines. You will be expected to deputise for the Team Lead in operational management in their absence. Key responsibilities Triage referrals regularly Effectively use and ensure that the electronic and written patient records reflect your current caseload and activity; with timely discharge and outcome appointments. Undertake all necessary verbal and written documentation required for patient care. Provide high quality physiotherapy including assessment, treatment and advice to patients with various Pelvic, Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy presentations. Assess and treat own caseload of patients, and maintain associated records as an autonomous practitioner with support from senior staff when required. Communicate with other health professionals, patients and carers with regard to the delivery of patient focused care. Participate in departmental continuous professional development, departmental education and training, audit and evidence-based projects. Have clinical supervision on a regular basis with senior staff. Supervision can take the form of formal training, clinical reasoning, peer review, case reviews and reflective practise. Supervise, line manage and appraise therapy assistants, therapy technicians and students. Provide education, training and supervision to physiotherapists, students and other staff as appropriate. Assist in the operation and development of the Physiotherapy Service provision across Whittington Health Safeguarding Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures. Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing. Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines. Participate in required training and supervision. Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct. Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Application instructions Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from Yahoo, Hotmail or Gmail accounts. Make sure you include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the job description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria. Our processes: Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If you require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors. Other important information: Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system. Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities. In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post. If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre‑employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “self‑ie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk. Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided. The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system. #J-18808-Ljbffr