Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 27.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 362-A-24-6829540
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stepping Hill Hospital
- Town
- stockport
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Pain Lead Physiotherapist
Band 7
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our award- winning pain service. As the lead pain physiotherapist you will be part of the multi- disciplinary team consisting of, anaesthetic consultants, specialist nurses, specialist OT, psychologist and junior physio staff.
You will have your own case load of patients, assessing and rehabilitating patients with chronic pain as well as the opportunity to contribute to group education sessions. You will also have the opportunity for service development and joint working /collaboration with other members of the team. You will run a specialist joint clinic alongside our consultant pain doctors to provide our most complex patients with a multidisciplinary approach. In all of this you will be supported by the 8a extended scope orthopaedic physiotherapists as well as by the wider team.
Main duties of the job
- To work collaboratively within the specialist Pain service
- To work with the Stockport Multi disciplinary Team to promote an efficient, effective service for all patients and carers
- Work as an autonomous practitioner, both professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of the professional and clinical work.
- To have a role in the responsibility for the management of patients care pathway through the Pain service
- To be responsible for a designated caseload of patients, where you will assess patients and implement and evaluate treatment plans, and coordinate interventions
- As a registered Allied Health Care Professional you will assist in the organisation, development, promotion and delivery of the Pain service
- To liaise with health, education and social services, working in partnership with primary and secondary carer, social prescribers and other external agencies to ensure the delivery of a high quality service, and facilitate effective discharge and/or onward referral
- Make recommendations to the wider team re changes to practice, which may lead to the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service guidelines.
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata)
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients referred from the Adult Pain Clinic.
To act as a source of expertise on the management of complex and general chronic pain patients providing an advisory service to patients, relatives, physiotherapists, other healthcare professionals and medical staff.
To take a major role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have complex and or chronic presentation, and to determine clinical diagnosis and physiotherapy treatment indicated.
To maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.
To undertake a leadership role in the planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluation of the therapy service provided to the patients within the speciality across the sites on a day-to-day basis.
To educate and train physiotherapists, other health professionals, medical staff and physiotherapy students in the management of chronic pain conditions.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary.
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person specification
education and qualification
Essential criteria
- degree in physiotherapy
- State Registration
- Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio
- Clinical Educators/Field Worker course or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- M’ level or equivalent courses in relevant speciality
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical reasoning skills
- Knowledge of a range of relevant conditions and their management
- Knowledge of recent NHS and trust developments and their impact on the service
- Knowledge of the condition of chronic Pain
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical experience as a Band 6 with specialist knowledge of Pain
- Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for staff
- Experience of utilizing pain management strategies such as but not restricted to CBT/ACT
- Experience of working as part of a Multidisciplinary team
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to support others, patients and staff
- Ability to manage time
- Advanced clinical reasoning skills & high level problem solving skills
- Ability to keep accurate patient notes
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sofie Zermansky
- Job title
- Team Leader and pain assessment and triage service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 204 4777
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Aspen House
Stepping Hill Hospital
Poplar Grove
Stockport
SK2 7JE
- Telephone
- 01614194720 ext.117081
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