Band 6 – Women’s Health Physiotherapist – Barts Health Trust
We operate from four major hospital sites (The Royal London, St Bartholomew’s, Whipps Cross and Newham) and a number of community locations, including Mile End hospital. Around 2.5 million people living in east London look to our services to provide them with the healthcare they need.
The Royal London in Whitechapel is a major teaching hospital providing local and specialist services in state-of-the-art facilities. Whipps Cross in Leytonstone is a large general hospital with a range of local services. Newham in Plaistow is a busy district hospital with innovative facilities such as its orthopaedic centre. Mile End hospital is a shared facility in Mile End for a range of inpatient, rehabilitation, mental health and community services. And St Bartholomew’s in the City, London’s oldest hospital, is a regional and national centre of excellence for cardiac and cancer care.
Main duties, responsibilities, and results areas
• To provide specialist Women’s Health physiotherapy to patients with a wide range of Obstetric and Gynaecological conditions.
• To adapt physiotherapy practice to suit the needs of the patient.
• To provide clinical supervision and appraisal for junior staff, therapy rehabilitation assistants and students.
• Participate in on-going service evaluation and development.
• To perform advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse, complex and multi-dimensional women’s health presentations.
• To be able to provide individualised treatment and management according to assessment findings in both in and outpatients.
• To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, holding responsibility for a defined area of the women’s health service. Formal and informal support from more senior physiotherapists is available on an agreed basis
• To be involved in formal training (within trust and external courses) such as clinical reasoning, peer review, problem patient session and in-service training
• To supervise, educate and assess the performance of physiotherapy students to a graduate standard. To work in conjunction with universities to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification.
• To undertake evidence-based audit and/or research projects to further own and team’s clinical practice within each rotation.
• To present findings to women’s health team in order to lead or be involved in the implementation of service development and changes to practice.
Qualifications, Skill and Experience
- Registered Physiotherapist with HCPC registration
- Completed at least one Musculoskeletal rotation as a Band 5 or Band 6
- Appropriate experience within Obstetric and Gynaecological Health
- Able to provide references to cover 3 years
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
In return for your hard work, the benefits of becoming a successful member of the bank team are:
- Competitive pay rates
- Annual leave accruals
- Ability to self book shifts
- Weekly payroll services
- Shift flexibility
- FREE mandatory training (Health & Safety, Manual Handling and Basic Life Support)
- A dedicated and professional Recruitment, Compliance and Bookings team to support you
Apply now for this fantastic opportunity by uploading your CV, and a member of our recruitment team will be in touch shortly.
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