Musculoskeletal Clinical Specialist

An exciting opportunity to work as a MSK Clinical specialist across both secondary care and within primary care FCP service. This job has a mixed job plan with 2 days FCP and three days within core physiotherapy.

Work as an autonomous practitioner managing patients with highly specialised complex needs in a variety of care settings.

Work collaboratively with other professions e.g. GPs, consultants, nurses and other AHPs to provide expert patient centred musculoskeletal care.

Provide training, education, supervision and appraisal for staff and students.

Contribute to the development of professional practice and the transformation and evaluation of service delivery.

Support the research and innovation agenda through participating in research and development activity.

Lead aspects of service evaluation with an emphasis on value based care and complex audit within their area.

Work in partnership with service users and staff to achieve improved health outcomes for service users and develop clinical pathways.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist who wishes to further extend their clinical skills and join the Physiotherapy service in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.

**This role involves**:

- Providing expert physiotherapeutic assessment, treatment, prognosis and advice to a complex and diverse range of patients within the musculoskeletal specialism.
- Independently determine the clinical diagnosis and future clinical management of presenting patients through the appropriate means.
- Acting as a skilled and expert resource to clinical colleagues with regards to musculoskeletal issues. Providing teaching and mentoring to peers and junior staff and students.
- Working with Radiology, Primary care and orthopaedics colleagues to develop services and pathways that are patient centered and offer best practice.
- Contributing to multidisciplinary audit research and evaluation of the clinical effectiveness and evidence base for the management of musculoskeletal conditions.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

**We live by our core values**:
We listen, learn and improve

We treat everyone with respect

We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.