Job Introduction
We are looking for an experienced and compassionate Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Hands – Band 7 to join our friendly Outpatient Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Service at HCRG Care Group. In this rewarding role, you will be at the heart of delivering expert physiotherapy care for patients with a wide range of hand conditions, using your advanced skills to assess, treat, and guide them towards recovery and improved function.
Working as an autonomous practitioner, you will manage your own specialist caseload, offering highly individualised, evidence-based interventions and clear, supportive advice. Your expertise will also help shape the quality of care we deliver, as you provide clinical leadership within your locality ensuring our team maintains consistent, best-practice standards that make a real difference to patients’ lives.
If you’re ready to bring your passion for hand therapy, your commitment to excellent care, and your leadership skills to a service that values both people and professionalism, we’d love to hear from you.
Our service is well respected, and we have developed strong relationships with local GP practices, Orthopaedic and Rheumatology consultants, midwives as well as other healthcare professionals. Patients can self-refer to our service, with FCP and other healthcare professionals within the GP practices, who also refer patients to our service.
We are committed to staff development and support our team with both formal and informal learning with in HCRG Care Group.
For an informal discussion please contact Cara O’Rourke, Head of MSK Physiotherapy Service
Viewings of the departments welcome prior to post closing.
Mobile: 07901640822
Email: cara.o’rourke@hcrgcaregroup.com
Main Responsibility
To work as a highly experienced physiotherapist responsible for the physiotherapy management of patients within the field of Hand Therapy in the Outpatient Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Service within HCRG care group. Working as an autonomous practitioner with responsibility for the management of a clinical caseload, providing highly specialised assessment, treatment and advice to patients. To provide clinical leadership to a defined physiotherapy locality ensuring consistent evidence based best practice.
- To plan and deliver a client centred hand therapy service to patients in community outpatient hand therapy clinics.
- To assist in the management, development of hand therapy services, including service reviews and audit. To hold responsibility for defined projects.
- To provide excellent leadership to all staff within the defined Community MSK Teams named above.
- Use data and soft intelligence to deliver and enhance performance, meeting and surpassing all key performance indicators.
- To work in conjunction with other Band 7 clinicians to act as a point of contact for stakeholders and referrers
- To contribute to the strategic planning including delivery of agreed business objectives.
- To support policy changes and implementation within the Community setting.
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
• Registered Allied Health Professional (AHP) (Active HCPC registration).
• BSc or equivalent in Physiotherapy.
• Educated to post graduate level or to have equivalent knowledge and experience & training in speciality area EG BAHT
• MSc or equivalent evidence of advanced knowledge in musculoskeletal physiotherapy
• Leadership /Supervisory experience
• Experience of PDR/ mentoring/ supervision/ teaching/ training.
• Experience of pathway development in the scope of MSK Physiotherapy.
• Experience of multi-agency working.
• Evidence of knowledge and involvement in service improvements/redesign.
• Experience of managing challenging and demanding situations and meeting targets/KPIs.
• Experience of being flexible, adaptable and working within a time pressured environment.
• Evidence of successfully leading a team
• Experience of resource management
• Experience of managing HR issues
• Full UK driving licence with suitably insured vehicle
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
Package Description
As a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Hands - Band 7 you will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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