Band 8a Specialist Physiotherapist - Post Covid Rehabilitation

Job summary

Are you a dynamic, enthusiastic, innovative physiotherapist with extensive experience in specialist rehabilitation at an advanced level? Do you have well developed leadership and influential skills with an ability to lead and an interest and ability to work effectively across a variety of settings? This post offers you a fantastic opportunity to do all of this and advance your career in a supportive environment.

This post will take a key role in leadership and development and delivery of a patient focused Post covid pathway across the Birmingham and Solihull ICB. You will work alongside Consultant Colleagues, Specialist Occupational therapists, Dietitians , Speech and Language therapists, Therapy support workers as well as colleagues in Community and Third sector services as part of our dynamic system wide Post Covid recovery team

Post Covid is a new and emerging area of practice. There are opportunities to develop your expertise, research and quality improvement skills with training available to support your development.

As the Covid situation hopefully minimises it is expected that this role will in time transition to a specialist rehabilitation role leading service provision with long term conditions requiring rehabilitation support.

This post is open to either full time or job share applications.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

The Birmingham and Solihull Post Covid Service has been in place since January 2021. The service has evolved during this time period and continues to develop and transition as Post Covid research and clinical practice develops.

You will work aspart of a dynamic and supportive team including team specialist therapists, nurses and Consultants. You will lead on expert assessment and intervention, develop the service and evaluate and implement timely changes..

You will have an advanced level of specialist skills, knowledge and experience to support rehabilitation in long term conditions and adapt and individualise your treatments to clinical need. You will, have excellent communication skills. Significant experience in education and training of others will be required. .

Clinical work is across a variety of settings including outpatients, home, working with individuals and groups with complex needs both remotely and in person and some in-patient work.

Highly developed leadership skills and a strategic, multidisciplinary approach with enthusiasm and strong interest in research and a developing service are essential.

We are committed to supporting the therapy team to flourish by developing their skill set and maximising their potential providing a supportive work environment.

Therapies at Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull hospitals as part of UHB is committed to providing a 7 day therapy service.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description

*Please Note : For a specific detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Good standard of general education including

GCSE maths and English grade C and above.

A levels or equivalent qualification

Appropriate Physiotherapy or professional qualification e.g. MCSP/ BSc or MSc.

CSP or equivalent professional registration.

MSc in relevant subject or working at "M" level as demonstrated by ongoing CPD

Evidence of commitment to advanced clinical and non-clinical continued professional development within own speciality, e.g. post registration training, management competencies and evidence of a detailed personal development portfolio.

Current professional registration with the HCPC

Experience

Essential

Extensive post registration experience of which significant years have been in an acute NHS organisation.

Significant experience as a clinical leader including direct clinical supervision of staff.

Significant experience in education and clinical training of others. Teaching experience to uni and multi-professional groups with evidence of ability to deliver high quality presentations

Significant experience of clinical/service evaluation

Advanced knowledge and skill in the advanced assessment and treatment of a wide range of complex acute and chronic clinical presentations relating to the Covid patient

Advanced knowledge of anatomy and physiology.

Awareness of current evidence in Covid recovery pathways linked to physiotherapy and application to clinical practice, using advanced clinical reasoning skills.

Understands the legal responsibilities of the profession

Significant experience in the development and performance management of physiotherapists and students

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Catriona McClafferty 

01214242673