First Contact Physiotherapist

1 month ago

Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Fuller and Forbes Partnership Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Physiotherapist to join our team at Mayflower Medical Group, a leading provider of primary care services in Plymouth. As a First Contact Physiotherapist, you will play a critical role in delivering high-quality patient care and contributing to the development of our multidisciplinary team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide clinical expertise as a first-contact physiotherapist, making decisions about the best course of action for patients' care, including in relation to undifferentiated conditions.
  • Progress and request investigations to facilitate diagnosis and choice of treatment regime, understanding the information limitations derived from these and the relative sensitivity and specificity of particular tests and diagnostic services.
  • Deliver programmes of supported patient self-management, in ways that facilitate behavioural change, optimise individuals' physical activity, mobility, fulfilment of personal goals and independence, and that minimise the need for pharmacological interventions.
  • Takes professional responsibility as a first-contact physiotherapist, with high-level decision-making and clinical-reasoning skills to assess, diagnose and triage of patients.
  • Manages a complex caseload, including patients with long-term conditions, comorbidities and multi-factorial needs.
  • Leads, manages and contributes to service delivery.
  • Accountable for decisions and actions via HCPC registration, supported by a professional culture of peer networking/review and engagement in evidence-based practice.
  • Streamlines pathway of care by providing a responsive service so that patients receive timely access to care.
  • Ensures care is proactive, preventive in focus and population based, with an emphasis on early intervention.
  • Provides care which is tailored to the individual needs, including 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).
  • Supports patients to set their own goals and be confident in their approach to self-management.
  • Communicates effectively and appropriately with patients and carers complex and sensitive information regarding diagnosis, pathology and prognosis.
  • Uses a range of clinical skills, including non-medical independent prescribing, joint/soft tissue injections and joint aspirations.
  • Provides learning opportunities for the whole multidisciplinary team within primary care.
  • Works with MDT to develop more effective and streamlined clinical pathways and services.
  • Exercises professional judgement, making, justifying and taking responsibility for decisions in unpredictable situations, including in the context of incomplete/contradictory information.
  • Manages interactions in complex situations, including with individuals with particular psychosocial and mental health needs and with colleagues across the primary care team, sectors and settings.

Person Specification

Essential

  • Demonstrates general physiotherapy skills and knowledge in core areas.
  • Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general physiotherapy care programmes for patients in core areas, including disease states/long term conditions identified by local Needs Assessment.
  • Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
  • Exercises a critical understanding of personal scope of practice and to identify when a patient needs referring on and where there are opportunities for developing the scope and competence of the wider MDT to meet patient care needs.
  • Integrates a broad range of interventions into practice, including injection therapy and independent prescribing, while also promoting non-pharmacological solutions to patient care.
  • Through patient assessment and working in partnership with patients and their carers, make decisions about the best pathway of care, informed by the urgency and severity of patient need, patient acuity and dependency, and the most appropriate deployment of resources.
  • Manages risk in unpredictable, uncertain situations to uphold patient safety, including by referring on to other primary care team members and to specialist services, as needed.
  • Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.
  • Involves patients in decision making and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Completion of an undergraduate degree in Physiotherapy, and registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
  • Able to demonstrate in practice portfolio experience in core physiotherapy and MSK physiotherapy.
  • Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP).
  • May hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification.
  • May hold or be working towards a postgraduate physiotherapy qualification.

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