MSK First Contact Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Takes professional responsibility as a first-contact physiotherapist, with high-level decision-making and clinical-reasoning skills to assess, diagnose and triage of patients.

2. Manages a complex caseload (including patients with long-term conditions, comorbidities and multi-factorial needs),

3. Leads, manages, and contributes to service delivery,

4. Accountable for decisions and actions via HCPC registration, supported by a professional culture of peer networking/review and engagement in evidence-based practice.

5. Streamlines pathway of care by providing a responsive service so that patients receive timely access to care.

6. Ensures care is proactive, preventive in focus and population based, with an emphasis on early intervention.

7. Provides care which is tailored to the individual needs. This would include, appraising the impact of individuals' clinical status on their general health, well-being, employment status (including in relation to function, physical activity, mobility, and independence

8. Supports patients to set their own goals and be confident in their approach to self-management.

9. Communicates effectively and appropriately with patients and carers complex and sensitive information regarding diagnosis, pathology, and prognosis.

10. Uses a range of clinical skills which may include:

a. non-medical independent prescribing

b. joint / soft tissue injections

c. joint aspirations.

11. Provides learning opportunities for the whole multi professional team within primary care.

12. Works with MDT to develop more effective and streamlined clinical pathways and services.

13. Exercises professional judgement, making, justifying, and taking responsibility for decisions in unpredictable situations, including in the context of incomplete/contradictory information.

14. Manages interactions in complex situations, including with individuals with psychosocial and mental health needs and with colleagues across the primary care team, sectors, and settings.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Significant leadership and experience in applying the physiotherapy process to include MSK assessment, interpretation, individual care planning, motivation, monitoring, and evaluation of highly specialised MSK treatment.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft and GP-IT systems, alongside prescribing data monitoring systems.
• Experience of senior level decision making and delivery in a changing environment.
• Experience of working with a diverse range of stakeholders/providing leadership within the MSK pathway.
• Ability to lead and manage change across own service and wider MDT team/services.
• Ability to integrate latest evidence-based practice into services and ability to use to lead change across a pathway/range of providers.
• Able to understand and analyse complex issues and balance competing priorities in order to make difficult decisions.
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex / often incomplete information, pre-empt, and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues.

Desirable

• Working towards advanced clinical practitioner status
• Experience of supervision/ line management
• Experience of working with a diverse range of stakeholders
• Strong knowledge of cognitive behavioural and motivational interviewing approaches / skills This document is subject to possible change.
• Experience of working within a primary care setting.
• Evidence of working across organisational boundaries within health and social care.
• Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem solving and analytical skills.

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc degree in Physiotherapy
• Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration
• can demonstrate working at Level 7 [within the ACP framework] capability in MSK related areas of practice or equivalent (such as advanced assessment diagnosis and treatment)

Desirable

• Pre-reg MSc degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent
• completed or working towards a supplementary Prescribing qualification.
• non-medical prescribing qualification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Firdale Medical Centre

Address

Firdale Medical Centre

Firdale Road

Northwich

Cheshire

CW8 4AZ

Employer's website

https://www.firdalemedicalcentre.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)