Pelvic Health Physiotherapist

Job Overview

Are you a physiotherapist with an interest or experience in pelvic health?

Have you completed B5 rotations through a range of specialities including MSK?

Are you looking for an opportunity to expand your knowledge and skills within pelvic health?

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has been selected, as 1 of only 14 trusts in the country, to work with NHS England & Improvement to set up a new Perinatal Pelvic Health Service. As a result, our Pelvic Health Physiotherapy team is growing and we are looking for a physiotherapist to join our team on a fixed term basis for 12 months. This post will be based at Wexham Park Hospital.

Main duties of the job

We have a growing team of experienced physiotherapists and assistant practitioners who provide an evidence based service. Advanced Practice Physiotherapists in the team provide expert advice and support. We have a well structured in-service training schedule with Frimley Health colleagues from Wexham Park Hospital. The service is expanding but the caseload will include 1:1 appointments and a range of virtual and in person groups and workshops with patients. There may be opportunities to supervise other staff and take on students.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To provide an effective, high quality physiotherapy service to outpatients in the specialty of Pelvic Health.
• To undertake specialist physiotherapeutic assessment, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of patient with Pelvic Health problems. These patients may have complex and/or chronic presentations.
• To supervise and teach recently qualified physiotherapists/technicians/assistants and students and be involved in teaching MDT staff.
• To participate in CPD and other departmental activities.
  
  

For the full job description and personal specification please see the attached document.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• BSc Physiotherapy
• Evidence of recent and relevant study in clinical area
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Member of POGP
• Student educator training/experience
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Experience of supervising/appraising other staff
• Able to present information to a group
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of delivering physiotherapy virtually
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Completion of B5 NHS rotations including MSK
• Experience of carrying out an audit
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of Pelvic Health Physiotherapy at B5 or B6 level
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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