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Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Team Lead & Specialist Physiotherapist, Pelvic Health
Dorchester On-site 5-10 yrs exp Hospitals and Health Care 1,083 employees
Pelvic Health PhysiotherapyTeam LeadershipClinical SupervisionService DevelopmentQuality Improvement
Requirements
Requires HCPC registration and a minimum of 5 years post-graduate clinical experience, including 3 years of specialist Band 6 experience in pelvic health. Candidates must demonstrate strong leadership, supervisory skills, and the ability to manage complex patient caseloads.
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Band 7 Team Lead & Specialist Pelvic Health Physiotherapist to lead and develop our Pelvic Health Physiotherapy Service across Dorset.
This is an exciting opportunity to combine enhanced specialist clinical practice with team leadership. The post holder will provide expert assessment and treatment for patients with complex pelvic health conditions across perinatal, urogynaecology, gynaecology, colorectal and urology pathways, while leading, supervising and developing the Pelvic Health Physiotherapy workforce.
Working closely with multidisciplinary colleagues across primary and secondary care, you will drive service development, quality improvement, education and clinical governance, ensuring the delivery of safe, evidence-based and patient-centred care. The role is pivotal in supporting the ongoing development of pelvic health services and improving outcomes for women and people with pelvic health conditions across Dorset.
This position is ideal for an experienced pelvic health physiotherapist who is passionate about leadership, service development and delivering high-quality specialist care
Applicants for this post should have a minimum of 5 Years post graduate clinical experience, and a minimum of 3 years specialist Pelvic Health related Band 6 experience, and have HCPC registration.
The post holder will be required to liaise closely with GP’s, Secondary Care Consultants and other Clinical Leads. The post holder will have leadership responsibility for Band 6 and 5 Physiotherapist, Apprentices and for coordinating Undergraduate students. This will also involve organising, coordinating and supporting the delivery of their educational requirements.
The role will also involve leading and contributing to departmental teaching, service improvement initiatives, audit and actively participate in continuous professional development activities.
Excellent communication skills and an ability to prioritise a caseload of complex patients are essential. Supervisory skills are also required for the clinical support, direction and development of rotational staff, apprentices and students. The post holder will also require excellent time management and interpersonal skills. You must be able to demonstrate sound clinical skills working as an effective team player within a Pelvic Health service.
UKVI Sponsorship: This role is eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, as defined by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI). We welcome applications from individuals who require sponsorship to work in the UK. Sponsorship will be offered subject to meeting UKVI eligibility criteria.
Enhancing development of the Pelvic Health Physiotherapy team is a key part of the role as part of fully engaging the workforce, to ensure clinical quality stays central to the delivery of the service and ongoing improvements.
We strongly support professional development, and manage to support most Band 7 Physiotherapists to do masters level study.
We prioritise your professional development, and you will receive regular supervision with the Head of Physiotherapy to ensure you are fully supported whilst establishing your lead role.
We understand that AI can be a useful tool when completing your application. However, we are seeing an increasing over-reliance of AI tools, which can negatively affect your application as it reduces a candidate’s individuality, and makes it difficult for us to gain a clear and authentic understanding of your experience, skills, and in turn your suitability for the role.
All submissions must be truthful and if you do use AI, it should only be used to enhance your application and not create your supporting statement in its entirety. Your supporting statement should be in your own words and must accurately reflect your personal experience and achievements. Where we have concerns that AI has been used to generate content that misrepresents your experience and suitability for the role, we may withdraw your application.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sandra Firth Job title: Head of Physiotherapy Email address: sandra.firth3@nhs.net Telephone number: 07584530110
Chris Leadley, Team Lead & Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Pelvic Health
Chris.Leadley@nhs.net
01305 255314
This is an exciting opportunity to combine enhanced specialist clinical practice with team leadership. The post holder will provide expert assessment and treatment for patients with complex pelvic health conditions across perinatal, urogynaecology, gynaecology, colorectal and urology pathways, while leading, supervising and developing the Pelvic Health Physiotherapy workforce.
Working closely with multidisciplinary colleagues across primary and secondary care, you will drive service development, quality improvement, education and clinical governance, ensuring the delivery of safe, evidence-based and patient-centred care. The role is pivotal in supporting the ongoing development of pelvic health services and improving outcomes for women and people with pelvic health conditions across Dorset.
This position is ideal for an experienced pelvic health physiotherapist who is passionate about leadership, service development and delivering high-quality specialist care
Applicants for this post should have a minimum of 5 Years post graduate clinical experience, and a minimum of 3 years specialist Pelvic Health related Band 6 experience, and have HCPC registration.
The post holder will be required to liaise closely with GP’s, Secondary Care Consultants and other Clinical Leads. The post holder will have leadership responsibility for Band 6 and 5 Physiotherapist, Apprentices and for coordinating Undergraduate students. This will also involve organising, coordinating and supporting the delivery of their educational requirements.
The role will also involve leading and contributing to departmental teaching, service improvement initiatives, audit and actively participate in continuous professional development activities.
Excellent communication skills and an ability to prioritise a caseload of complex patients are essential. Supervisory skills are also required for the clinical support, direction and development of rotational staff, apprentices and students. The post holder will also require excellent time management and interpersonal skills. You must be able to demonstrate sound clinical skills working as an effective team player within a Pelvic Health service.
UKVI Sponsorship: This role is eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, as defined by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI). We welcome applications from individuals who require sponsorship to work in the UK. Sponsorship will be offered subject to meeting UKVI eligibility criteria.
Enhancing development of the Pelvic Health Physiotherapy team is a key part of the role as part of fully engaging the workforce, to ensure clinical quality stays central to the delivery of the service and ongoing improvements.
We strongly support professional development, and manage to support most Band 7 Physiotherapists to do masters level study.
We prioritise your professional development, and you will receive regular supervision with the Head of Physiotherapy to ensure you are fully supported whilst establishing your lead role.
We understand that AI can be a useful tool when completing your application. However, we are seeing an increasing over-reliance of AI tools, which can negatively affect your application as it reduces a candidate’s individuality, and makes it difficult for us to gain a clear and authentic understanding of your experience, skills, and in turn your suitability for the role.
All submissions must be truthful and if you do use AI, it should only be used to enhance your application and not create your supporting statement in its entirety. Your supporting statement should be in your own words and must accurately reflect your personal experience and achievements. Where we have concerns that AI has been used to generate content that misrepresents your experience and suitability for the role, we may withdraw your application.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sandra Firth Job title: Head of Physiotherapy Email address: sandra.firth3@nhs.net Telephone number: 07584530110
Chris Leadley, Team Lead & Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Pelvic Health
Chris.Leadley@nhs.net
01305 255314
Education
Professional CertificatePostgraduate Degree
Skills
Pelvic Health PhysiotherapyTeam LeadershipClinical SupervisionService DevelopmentQuality ImprovementClinical GovernancePatient AssessmentPatient TreatmentMultidisciplinary CollaborationCase Load PrioritisationTime ManagementInterpersonal SkillsEducational CoordinationAuditCommunication Skills
About Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Our busy, modern hospital provides a full range of district general services, including an accident and emergency department, and links with satellite units in five community hospitals. We are the main provider of acute hospital services to a population of around 210,000, living within Weymouth and Portland, West Dorset, North Dorset and Purbeck. We also provide renal services for patients throughout Dorset and South Somerset; a total population of 850,000. Our staff work in GP surgeries, schools, residential homes and people’s own homes as well as Dorset County Hospital and the community hospitals.