Pain Practitioner - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Primary Integrated Community Services

Primary Integrated Community Services
Primary Integrated Community Services
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Nottingham, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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JOB PURPOSE An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Practitioner working as part of an interdisciplinary team for the established Nottinghamshire Community Pain, ME/CFS Pathways, and the newly developed Long Covid fatigue service.

We currently serve Nottinghamshire County, Mansfield and Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood and Bassetlaw districts within the Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System (ICS).

The Team provide timely triage, assessment, and treatment of individuals with long term (non-malignant) pain, ME/CFS or Long Covid fatigue within a biopsychosocial framework, individually and in groups, adopting a hybrid approach with face to face, telephone, and online options.

We will negotiate most convenient locations for working across our clinical network, allowing us to flexibly respond to service demand.


You will provide advice and education regarding changes in lifestyle, exercise, pain mechanisms, medication, pacing, psychological impact of living with pain and fatigue, and support the return to valued activities.

Long term condition approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Mindfulness underpin our therapeutic offer to patients guiding them towards self-management, living well alongside pain and fatigue.

The role requires effective communication with patients, carers, the wider MDT and relevant NHS and community service providers to ensure appropriate, evidence based holistic care pathways for patients.

To triage, assess and treat both individually and in groups, patients referred to the service.


This will include the provision of advice and education regarding changes in lifestyle, exercise, pain mechanisms, medication, pacing and return to valued activities.

To be able to identify and refer on appropriately those patients who may have complex and/or serious pathology (red flags).

To work outside traditional scope of practice, using shared knowledge and skills of physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nursing, and psychological interventions.

To liaise with primary and secondary care professionals regarding referrals to and from the service and be a clinical resource for advice on the management of persistent pain, ME/CFS and Long Covid fatigue.

To recognise and make recommendations for treatment with different types of pain, e.g., nociceptive, and neuropathic pain. To establish collaborative working relationships with patients providing information and advice at all stages of the patient pathway. Communicating complex condition related information within scope of professional practice accounting for potential barriers to communication.

To ensure effective systems are followed, integrating risk assessment and management and clinical governance to reduce clinical risk and promote patient safety.


To ensure your actions support equality, diversity, and rights by compliance with local policies and ensuring that the service is sensitive to individual needs, cultures, beliefs and values.

To maintain sensitive, accurate and comprehensive patient records in line with service standards and your professional bodys standards of practice.

For more information, please see the supporting documents.
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