Trust: Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
Location: Corbett Medical Practise, Droitwich, WR9 8RD
Hours: 16 hours/ week over 2 days either Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday, 08:30 – 16:30
Pay rate: £26.06
Length: 3 months (Provisional)
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust are currently seeking organised and motivated candidates to fulfil MSK Physiotherapist opportunities within the team at Corbett Medical Practise under a long-term placement contract. Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic individual with excellent communication skills looking to embark on a new opportunity within the NHS? If so, we would like to hear from you today!
The post holder will ideally have relevant clinical experience in MSK and will be working within an outpatient setting. They must be able to demonstrate initiative and prioritise a complex workload whilst working both as an autonomous practitioner and as part of a team.
High levels of both written and oral communication are essential to this post with the ability to deliver or discuss difficult diagnosis and prognosis with tact, empathy, managing distressed or aggressive patients or carers/relatives. The post holder must be able to communicate accurate and sensitive information to patients, carers, and relatives as well as within their own team & colleagues.
The Postholder will:
Act as the first point of contact exercising clinical and professional autonomy. This involves critical judgement and expertise in providing clinical assessment and interpretation of clinical findings to ensure that the most appropriate care is delivered to patients referred with complex, urgent, or chronic health care needs.
Develop, implement, and evaluate individual plans of care with patients and their carers/relatives according to their current and changing health care needs and differential diagnosis to enable step up or step down to appropriate services when their condition requires.
Participate in MDT discussion and establish robust lines of communication with the patients GP to ensure contemporaneous feedback on treatment and interventions and facilitate high quality, safe, effective care.
Work in partnership with patients, Doctors, other health and social care professionals, carers and relatives and the voluntary services sector in the planning and delivery of care and the safe transfers of care between organisations.
Analyse and interpret clinical history, presenting symptoms, physical and psychological findings and diagnostic information along with physical examination to reach a differential diagnosis.
The Successful Candidate Will:
Hold a Degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent
Be HCPC registered
Have previous NHS experience
Relevant clinical experience in MSK
Relevant clinical experience in APP
ACP Qualification (Preferable)
Practice in accordance with the professional, ethical, and legal codes of the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), and Trust and NHS protocols and guidelines
In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of:
Relevant Qualifications
Registration with the relevant Registration Body if applicable
Who are NHS Professionals?
If a hospital cannot supply staff on a ward or area, due to increased demand, sickness, or common staff shortages, they need to call upon Bank staff. NHS Professionals works with Trusts to develop a ‘Bank’ of highly skilled workers who want to work flexibly with the NHS.
Why NHS Professionals?
We value your skills, dedication, and commitment in supporting your local Trust and the NHS. We believe together we continue to deliver world-class healthcare service to our patients.
In return for your hard work commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits: –
Competitive Pay Rates – work this week, get paid next week!
First choice of placements at over 50 NHS Trusts in England
Dedicated consultants
Flexible working options
Free DBS and free training
Build holiday allowance
Support when you need it – 24/7 365 days – Call us anytime
Stakeholder pension scheme
About the Trust:
HWHAC
Herefordshire & Worcestershire Health & Care NHS Trust are the lead provider of mental health and learning disability services across Herefordshire and Worcestershire supporting children, adults and older people.
HWHAC work alongside community partners to support people’s mental wellbeing; provide support for people experiencing stress, anxiety or depression; run a range of specialist services which care for people at home or on a ward; and our crisis team provides around the clock support for people experiencing an escalation of their mental health needs or a crisis. HWHAC also provide learning disability services across both counties which support children and adults to increase or maintain levels of independence.
HWHAC are the main provider of Integrated Community Services in Worcestershire, working alongside GPs, social care teams and the voluntary sector to deliver nursing and therapy services which keep people at home for as long as possible. These services support around 10,000 patients, and their efforts help avoid approximately 30 hospital admissions everyday In addition our Countywide Community Services include Worcestershire’s community hospitals and rehabilitation units, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, community stroke services and specialist neurological clinics.
HWHAC work with a range of partners to support children, young people and families across Worcestershire. Through our Starting Well Partnership, HWHAC provide health visiting, school health nursing and early years support. HWHAC also provide respite care for families of children with life-limiting learning and/or physical disabilities, and are responsible for community based paediatric services, which are delivered by multi-disciplinary teams.
