# Highly Specialist Pelvic Health Physiotherapist **Company**: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Salary**: £49,387 to £56,515 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9197-26-0896?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_923632df-33e ## Description An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Physiotherapist to become part of the dynamic and forward-thinking Bladder, Bowel and Pelvic Health team within Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. Based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, the successful candidate will demonstrate highly developed clinical assessment and treatment skills in pelvic health. The post-holder will play a key role in managing and clinically providing services to a varied caseload of patients, carrying out specialist assessments and treatments within the Pelvic Health pathway, and supervising staff members working within the team. The ideal candidate will have previous experience of supervision and working within pelvic health, showing excellent clinical reasoning, time management, supervisory, and communication skills. Clinical Team Leads and extended scope Physiotherapists will support the post-holder's learning and development, with regular access to clinical supervision and in-house and external training. **Job Responsibilities:** - Undertake all aspects of clinical duties and carry a significant caseload of patients as an autonomous practitioner - Work at an advanced level, being professionally and legally accountable for a highly specialised patient caseload - Assess patients' capacity, gain valid and informed consent to treatment, and work within a legal framework where capacity is lacking - Undertake comprehensive assessments and accurate diagnoses of patients, including those with complex presentations - Formulate individualized clinical management programs, utilizing a wide range of treatment skills and options - Use recognized outcome measures to evaluate the effect of physiotherapy interventions - Provide expert advice, teaching, and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines, and agencies - Ensure accurate and comprehensive clinical records are maintained - Identify and employ suitable verbal and non-verbal communication skills with patients - Communicate with empathy and provide complex patient-related information effectively - Participate in discharge planning, including liaison with referring hospitals or community staff - Produce comprehensive patient-related reports for other disciplines or agencies - Undertake an extended scope role as appropriate to the needs of the service - Facilitate the implementation and evaluation of physiotherapy clinical outcomes within a designated pathway **Education, Training, and Research:** - Educate patients, relatives, and carers regarding the nature of the condition and the aims of physiotherapy intervention - Maintain own competency to practice through continuing professional development activities - Participate in peer review and take an active role in uni-professional and multi-professional research initiatives - Provide regular training for designated pathway staff in the local site - Initiate implementation of new working practices on designated sites - Prepare, coordinate, participate, and contribute to the delivery of specific in-service training programs for staff - Train, assess, and confirm competency of staff within the pathway on designated sites **Service Management:** - Manage day-to-day workload and maintain the level of service within the pathway - Use prioritizing and time management skills to meet the unpredictable and conflicting needs of the service - Participate in ensuring clear and open channels of communication exist within the physiotherapy pathway team - Maintain communication links and collaborative working patterns with other recognized experts and networks in the specialty **Benefits:** - Competitive salary: £49,387 to £56,515 per annum - Permanent contract - Full-time, part-time, flexible working, and compressed hours available ## Skills ### Required - pelvic health - physiotherapy - clinical assessment - treatment skills - supervision - communication skills --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9197-26-0896?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)