Clinical Lead Physiotherapist - Occupational Health

NHS; Preston; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000

Job description

Clinical Lead Physiotherapist - Occupational Health

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a Physiotherapist with Occupational Health experience looking to further develop your career, with opportunities to build strategic and clinical experience and have an impact? If this sounds like you, we have a unique opportunity that is too good to miss.

Looking after the wellbeing of our workforce has never been such a high priority. The NHS has faced unprecedented challenges in the last few years, and our teams achieve amazing things every day, putting our patients at the heart of everything they do. We are just as passionate about supporting them and need you to join us to provide and further develop a rapid access physiotherapy service which is responsive to the needs of our workforce and takes a preventative approach. You will also support delivery of our broader health and wellbeing strategy, helping us develop a culture where caring compassionately for our staff is embedded in everything that we do.

Main duties of the job

MSK conditions are the second highest reason for sickness absence within our organisation. Supporting our colleagues back to work or helping them stay at work is a key priority for us.

You will provide a proactive service for our workforce, using your clinical expertise to comprehensively assess and formulate individual treatment and management plans. This might involve functional workplace assessments and the provision of ergonomic advice. You will work closely with our core Occupational Health service to ensure that relevant advice is provided to managers to inform them about how to keep colleagues safe at work and support them through adjustments. You will be someone who thrives in a busy environment, and you will be able to independently manage your clinical caseload.

We have an ambitious programme of work around preventing MSK injury in the workplace, and you will be part of a multi-disciplinary project team, driving awareness, education and risk assessment.

Your passion and enthusiasm for your specialism will help us make a difference for our workforce. The workload is diverse, a commitment to professional development is crucial and you will also have the skills to continually evaluate the work of the team to ensure we are making impact where it counts.

About us

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Job responsibilities

The service is provided at two main sites, Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley & South Ribble hospital to which the trust has a regular shuttle bus service to ease the commute.

Duties will include, but not be limited to:

• To communicate and collaborate with all Core Therapies stakeholders
• To help ensure the health, safety and security of service users, self and colleagues
• To support equality of opportunity and access to the service
• To provide and use information to support admin processes and patient care.
• To directly support the delivery of therapy to patients.
• To provide leadership and management support

*Please note that the interview date may be subject to change*

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

• HCPC registration
• Diploma or Degree in Physiotherapy
• Evidence of CPD
• Clinical educator
• Post graduate courses in relevant area
• Member of the CSP
• Leadership course or qualification
• Member of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Occupational Health and Ergonomics

Knowledge & Experience

• Significant varied experience
• Significant experience in relevant clinical area of Physiotherapy at Band 6/7 level
• Knowledge of standardised and specialist assessments, treatment techniques and outcome measures
• Specialist knowledge and application of current best practice in physiotherapy and area of speciality
• Good understanding of MDT dynamics
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Experience of leading and management of a team
• Experience of inter-disciplinary working with shared goals

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.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£46,148 to £52,809 a year, pro rata