Job Description:
Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner (APP)
Homebased with occasional attendance in either Bupa Place (Salford Quays, M50 3SP) or alternative local Bupa Centre as required.
Contract hours: Full-time and Part-time available (Flexible)
Salary: Competitive
Flexible shift pattern – based on 37.5 hour working week, minimum working hours of 22.5 hours per week
The service we provide operates between 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday.
You would be expected to work one late shift per week (12-8pm) and one Saturday (8am-4pm) every 6 weeks.
We make health happen
At Bupa, you’ll have the freedom to develop new lines of care, with the flexibility and development opportunities to push your career further.
As an APP, you’ll be eager to continue learning and building skills while working with talented colleagues.
This is a remote physiotherapy consultation service available for Bupa Insurance Members, Occupational Health and Corporate Customers. The service runs alongside other providers to ensure fast access to triage where no other GP referral has been made.
The service serves two purposes; to provide support and information to enable individuals to self-manage their musculoskeletal condition and where necessary, facilitate onward referral to the appropriate recognised clinicians or services.
If you can bring us the skills we’re looking for we can help you build a career at a company that truly has belief in you.
You’ll help us make health happen by:
1. Ensuring outstanding professional and customer service standards are delivered by the Physioline team, using NPS survey results, complaints, and immediate customer feedback to drive continuous improvement in delivery, giving individual feedback where necessary.
2. Arranging appropriate treatment for higher risk cases and work closely with the PhysioLine support team to ensure a seamless and effective service to every customer.
3. Ensuring compliance by the Physioline team with all clinical and operational performance policies, procedures and protocols issued by Bupa.
4. Liaising with other members of the MSK team to ensure best practice particularly where the diagnosis is in doubt and/or the patient is not responding to Physiotherapy treatment in the expected fashion.
5. Ensuring that physiotherapy care is delivered as defined in the quality standards, taking into consideration best practice, Bupa care pathways and all necessary professional codes of conduct and managing this through annual clinical reviews and biannual notes audits.
6. Delivering excellent standards of telephone assessment via audio or video, providing diagnosis and facilitating onward referrals.
7. Monitoring and follow up complex cases and red flag cases.
8. Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction through effective delivery within expected quality measures.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
9. MSc post graduate qualification in MSK Physiotherapy or University accredited Post Graduate modules in MSK/Advanced Practice. Post grad module relevant to diagnostic nature of APP service
10. HCPC registered/CSP Registered
11. 5 years post graduate experience in MSK with at least 3 years in a senior role in MSK
12. Experience working in the NHS as an MSK APP
13. Demonstrate post graduate learning and advanced clinical skills (MSc level) in patient assessment, diagnostics with development of treatment plan, including evidence of working at Level 7 (MSc level) all 4 pillars (clinical practice, leadership & management, education and research
14. Ability to order and interpret diagnostic tests
15. Up to date with own clinical practice and demonstrates an ability to maintain clinical competence
16. Ability to evaluate, plan and prioritise workload within demanding time scales
17. Excellent application of clinical knowledge
18. Enthusiastic, self-motivated and self-sufficient
19. Ability to respond rapidly and decisively
20. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills & a team player
21. Strong problem-solving capability
22. Telephone triage experience desirable
23. IT proficient
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
24. Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
25. Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
26. An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
27. Annual performance-based bonus
28. Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.