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SalaryAre you looking for a new challenge? Want to work for one of the UK leading healthcare groups?
We are on the lookout for First Contact Physiotherapist & Advance Physiotherapists to join their department.
This is a full time role for 37.5 hours a week. The role holder will be required to cover a flexible shift pattern.
Applicants should meet the following criteria:
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- HCPC registered
- Physiotherapy degree
- Completed Stage 1 of the FCP Road map
- Experience working at a senior physiotherapist level seeing patients in a musculoskeletal setting (equivalent B7 or 8a)
- Evidence of continuing professional development in relevant clinical and management areas
- Clinical leadership
- Experience in ordering diagnostics/investigations & tests
- Experience of clinical supervision / mentoring
- Experience in Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Chronic pain
- Experience in managing a team
Desirable:
- Previous experience of Telephone triage work.
- Membership of MSK related clinical interest groups
- Experience of working with both NHS and Private patient caseloads.
- Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (MCSP)
Duties of this role include:
- To work as an FCP within the MSK service and local GP practices in Greenwich alongside other clinicians such as fellow physios, APPs, MSK Physicians and consultants.
- To undertake highly specialised & comprehensive neuro-musculoskeletal assessments, of routine and complex patients.
- To form accurate diagnoses, management plans and prognosis, using advanced clinical reasoning skills, knowledge of best current clinical and evidence based practice and assimilation/interpretation of clinical diagnostic tests
- To independently refer for diagnostic procedures such as MRI, USS, X-Ray and NCS (after appropriate training/supervision if necessary)
- To refer patients onto appropriate specialities within primary and secondary care
- It is desirable that can independently administer joint and soft tissue injections (or willing to work towards such a skill)
- To communicate effectively and professionally with patients and medical colleagues regarding assessment, management and treatment choices
- Contribute to, and participate in, on-going development/IST within the MSK team
- To work in a unified manner with other team members across the MSK service in following, and developing, clinical pathways
- To triage incoming MSK referrals and make decisions regarding most appropriate referral onto care providers either within, or outside, the service
- To provide an excellent level of service to all patients and stakeholders
- To supervise physiotherapists and MSK Practitioners in their provision of clinical care
Please get in touch for more info!!
