Band 7 Pelvic Health Physiotherapist

• Work as an autonomous practitioner in providing physiotherapy assessment and treatment of a range of complex pelvic health conditions (obstetric, gynaecological, colorectal) to your own designated caseload of patients. This is provided both on-site and also within community clinics without direct supervision. You will be expected to maintain up to date physiotherapy records.
• To use ongoing investigative and analytical skills, assessment techniques and diagnostic procedures to assess complex patients
• To Supervise junior staff and provide clinical leadership to staff treating a wide range of pelvic health conditions
• Use evidence based principles / current best practise and specialist skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
• To organise and run a range of classes and group sessions to meet the needs of the patients and service.
• Fully participate in CPD and other service development activities
• Regularly supervise, teach and support junior staff
• Deputise for the physiotherapy clinical lead during their absence

• To be able to manage and prioritise your own designated clinical caseload, running to time in an outpatient setting and working as an autonomous practitioner without direct supervision.
• To undertake assessment and treatment of a wide variety of acute and chronic obstetric musculoskeletal and gynaecology related conditions.
• To perform internal examinations for the assessment and treatment of pelvic floor conditions.
• To monitor and evaluate treatment to measure progress and to ensure effectiveness of the intervention and to identify quickly when treatment requires modifying and to recognise when advice/assistance from clinical specialist is required.
• To communicate effectively with patients, colleagues and stakeholders regarding patient care and service development.
• To work as a lone practitioner with telephone support from a senior therapist if required.

• To evaluate your own clinical effectiveness.
• To undertake and present relevant service improvement and evidence based projects including contribution to in service training programme.

• To be responsible for the accurate input of clinical information onto the trust IT system.

• To complete relevant risk assessments and associated documentation/action.
• To demonstrate physical ability to carry out physiotherapy assessments and interventions including manual physiotherapy techniques. This involves frequent light to moderate physical effort.

• To demonstrate effective time management and organisational skills during daily management of own workload and to be able to adapt flexibly to sudden changes in workload.
• To ensure timely communication of assessment findings, treatment and outcomes to other involved disciplines through the provision of reports, discharge letters and onward referrals.
• To be involved with the induction, teaching and supervision of other physiotherapy staff and contribute to their performance assessment by providing feedback to their seniors.

Essential

• Postgraduate experience assessing and treating pelvic health conditions (including complex cases- urogynacology and colorectal conditions)
• Experience of managing own complex pelvic health physiotherapy caseload in NHS outpatient setting and prioritising and delegating
• Experience of working in the NHS setting at undergraduate or postgraduate level
• Experience running pelvic health classes
• Competent using biofeedback
• Experiencing supervising junior staff

Essential

• Advanced knowledge and understanding of a range of treatment approaches in Pelvic Health
• Knowledge of relevant clinical guidelines and policies, and their implications to clinical practice
• Ability to carry out highly advanced range of assessments and procedures in pelvic health physiotherapy and use clear clinical reasoning to make a diagnosis, treatment and management plan
• Understanding of clinical outcome measures and awareness of ones relevant to speciality
• Understanding of management of complex pelvic health patients
• Understanding of meeting emotional and physical needs of pelvic health patient population
• Evidence of evidenced based practice or audit in pelvic health physiotherapy and application to practice
• Ability to respond to and feedback complex cases and information to consultant colleagues/ MDT members