Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in Occupational Health

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000

Job description

Job overview

An exciting opportunity is available for a physiotherapist with occupational health experience to join a friendly and supportive team in the Occupational Health department at Salisbury Foundation Trust. You will be invaluable in helping to improve the health and wellbeing of our NHS work staff and help the Trust with its commitment to fulfilling the NHS People Plan and People Promise.

Occupational Health Physiotherapists utilise their skills to accelerate workers' recovery from, or self-management of, their musculoskeletal conditions and thereby assist their ability to undertake their jobs efficiently and effectively. You will also play a key role in helping to prevent or reduce sickness absence from musculoskeletal disorders by providing early and easy access to high standard, highly specialist Physiotherapy assessment and phased return to work programs.

Provide expert advice to and work closely with General Practitioners, Occupational Health Physicians, Occupational Health Nurses, and Line Managers regarding individuals' fitness to work/return to work and provide workplace ergonomic assessments to prevent/reduce the risk of musculoskeletal injury to staff and patients.

To find out more about the role, informal chats or informal departmental visits are welcomed.

Main duties of the job

1. To be responsible for the operational management and clinical leadership of the Occupational Health (OH) physiotherapy service in conjunction with the Head of Occupational Health.
2. To use expert physiotherapy knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide specialist support and advice to the physiotherapy team and other healthcare staff and to manage their own caseload of patients with highly complex conditions as an autonomous practitioner.
3. To ensure a high quality, effective OH staff physiotherapy service.
4. To be a member of the Physiotherapy Department Management team, contributing to planning and policy development in the Inter-professional team and department.
5. To deputise for the Inter-professional Lead as required.

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery, and holiday play scheme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Person specification

Essential criteria

• Qualified physiotherapist, with a minimum of 7 years post qualified.
• Occupational health experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of the role of physiotherapy within the current emerging health environment and national initiatives.
• Post-graduate course(s) in Occupational Health and Ergonomics.

Desirable criteria

• Member of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Occupational Health and Ergonomics (ACPOHE).
• Qualified Clinical Supervisor.
• Competent IT skills.

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.