WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR.

We’re looking for someone who has GMC registration, MBBS or Equivalent, fully Accredited for Higher Specialist Training, FFPMRCA or Equivalent and have a post-graduate qualification relevant to Pain or relevant experience.
You’ll also have a strong commitment to patient care and continuous professional development along with excellent communication, leadership and team-working skills.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced GPwER in Chronic Pain to join our multidisciplinary team at North West London Integrated MSK Services- Hillingdon Borough. This is a unique opportunity to lead and develop pain management services, working collaboratively across specialties to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

Develop and implement pain management plans for patients with acute and chronic pain. Providing clinical guidance and advice to colleagues, including advanced practice pain clinicians, in a collaborative, multidisciplinary team structure.

• Practice at consultant grade in Pain in keeping with functioning as an expert Pain clinician (prescribing, conducting complex case reviews, performing procedures/injection list, communicating with primary and secondary care, leading MDT patient reviews).
• Engage in teaching and mentoring, education and supervision of junior staff.
• Supporting the delivery of a high quality community pain management service, in line with the priorities of the service and ICB. This may include, but is not limited to:
• Promotion of long-term condition management for chronic MSK conditions, with a focus on quality of life, i.e. function, emotional well-being, social functioning, daily activities and return to work.
• Providing support to patients to manage fitness, physical health and mental wellbeing, with education around optimisation of long-term conditions. This would include the use of social prescribing, peer support, third-sector involvement, support to remain or return to work and recognition and support of mental health needs
• Partnership working across the MSK landscape, including both NHS and third-sector organisations, as well as with the ICB and patient partnerships to design, evaluate and improve service provision, with continuous quality improvement based on patient reported outcome and experience data.
• Providing a holistic, evidence-based continuum of care for patients with MSK presentations and ensuring they are provided with standardised information and seen at the right time in the right place, according to locally agreed pathways. Low value over-diagnosis and over-treatment should be addressed, whilst improving access for appropriate patients to evidence-based specialist interventions
• The service should work to identify areas of variation (at primary, community and secondary care levels) to reduce inequalities in access and best establish ‘value’ across the MSK health economy.
• Enhance the management of patients within primary and community care, and actively manage the demand for secondary care services ensuring patients have quicker access to appropriate treatment in the appropriate setting.