Job Overview
The Frimley Health Advanced Practitioner Team offers both Primary and Secondary Care Services across the Frimley ICS in Berkshire, Surrey, North East Hants, and Farnham.
An opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic and forward-thinking team working in our First Contact Practitioner clinics in North East Hants and Farnham.
As an FCP, you will be using clinical expertise to assess and manage MSK patients in Primary Care. You will use clinical assessment, diagnostics, and decision-making to manage MSK patients as a first point of contact without prior appointment with their GP.
If you are an experienced and motivated MSK physiotherapist, who is passionate about Primary Care and the First Contact Physiotherapist role, this could be the post for you.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide highly specialist clinical expertise, acting as a first-contact practitioner and making independent decisions about the best course of action for patients' care, which may include referring for diagnostics. This will involve seeing patients, without prior contact with their GP, in order to establish a rapid and accurate diagnosis and management plan. This may be face to face or by virtual consultation.
2. Delivering patient-centred care that supports self-management, in ways that facilitate behavioural change, optimise individuals' physical activity, mobility, fulfilment of personal goals and independence, and also minimises the need for pharmacological interventions and investigations.
3. To be able to assess and manage acute, chronic, and complex patient presentations, and refer patients on to Physiotherapy or Secondary Care for further management when appropriate.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis, and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot, and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users, and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together, and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The APP team works across Primary Care and Secondary Care in GP Practices and Orthopaedic clinics. We are a friendly and experienced team with a broad range of clinical expertise and knowledge.
We have run FCP services for the past 9 years and worked closely with our Primary Care partners to develop these services. We have supported our team through the FCP Roadmap with our own supervisors from within our team and would be keen to support new members of the FCP team to complete their Roadmap.
We currently provide FCP services for Oakley Health Group in Blackwater and Farnham Integrated Care Services, which provide a centre for 4 local GP practices.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria:
* HCPC Registered
* Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy
* Broad experience in MSK outpatients.
Desirable criteria:
* Injection module
* Independent Prescribing
* Completion of post-graduate qualifications e.g. Masters, SOMM
* Previous experience as an FCP or APP or ACP.
Knowledge
Essential criteria:
* Knowledge of professional ethics
* Knowledge of Clinical Governance.
Desirable criteria:
* Awareness of primary care treatment options and challenges.
Skills
Essential criteria:
* Interpersonal skills, including: Verbal and written communication
* IT skills
* Organisational ability/able to work under pressure
* Sound Clinical reasoning
* Able to work independently as an autonomous practitioner.
Desirable criteria:
* Presentation/Teaching skills (1:1/group)
* FCP Roadmap completed.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well-performing, well-led, and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state-of-the-art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and we are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investments in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision, and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users, and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together, and Facing the Future.
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