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Are 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