Job summary
Mayflower Medical Group is looking for a First Contact Physio to join our team of GPs, ANPs, Paramedics, PCN staff, and Nurses in order to provide outstanding patient care and ensure longer and healthier lives.
As an organisation we are constantly looking for new and innovative way of working. We are committed to our staff and their personal development in order to provide an all encompassing service to our patients.
The surgery which has 5 sites across Plymouth, is in the process of returning towards a traditional model of General Practice in which should see an improved level of access for all. We are wanting a physio to be based across a couple of these sites so that all of our patients are able to offer the service.
Main duties of the job
Provide clinical expertise, acting as first-contact physiotherapist and making decisions about the best course of action for patients' care (including in relation to undifferentiated conditions). This will involve seeing patients, without prior contact with their GP, in order to establish a rapid and accurate diagnosis and management plan.
About us
Recently acquired by the Fuller and Forbes partnership, Mayflower Medical Group is a collection of 5 GP Surgeries based across Plymouth. Our surgeries provide healthcare to 35,000 patients at the following locations Stirling Road, Ernesettle, Trelawny, Mannamead and Mount Gould.
As a group, our vision is to enable patients to live longer and healthier lives that are full, active and meaningful. We aim to do this by developing a sustainable primary healthcare service. Our service is undertaken by our vast multidisciplinary team of GPs, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Pharmacists, Paramedics and Nursing teams, as well as our PCN staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Provide clinical expertise, acting as first-contact physiotherapist and making decisions about the best course of action for patients' care
2. 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 diagnostic services such as x-rays and blood test, and interpret and act on results to aid diagnosis and the management plans of patients
3. 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
4. Takes professional responsibility as a first-contact physiotherapist, with high-level decision-making and clinical-reasoning skills to assess, diagnose and triage of patients
5. Manages a complex caseload (including patients with long-term conditions, comorbidities and multi-factorial needs)
6. Leads, manages and contributes to service delivery
7. Accountable for decisions and actions via HCPC registration, supported by a professional culture of peer networking/review and engagement in evidence-based practice
8. Streamlines pathway of care by providing a responsive service so that patients receive timely access to care
9. Ensures care is proactive, preventive in focus and population based, with an emphasis on early intervention
10. 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)
11. Supports patients to set their own goals and be confident in their approach to self-management
12. Communicates effectively and appropriately with patients and carers complex and sensitive information regarding diagnosis, pathology and prognosis.
13. Uses a range of clinical skills which may includea. non-medical independent prescribing b. joint / soft tissue injections c. joint aspirations
14. Provides learning opportunities for the whole multi professional team within primary care
15. Works with MDT to develop more effective and streamlined clinical pathways and services
16. Exercises professional judgement, making, justifying and taking responsibility for decisions in unpredictable situations, including in the context of incomplete/contradictory information
17. 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
Experience
Essential
18. 1. Demonstrates general physiotherapy skills and knowledge in core areas
19. 2. Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general physiotherapy care
20. programmes for patients in core areas, including disease states / long term conditions
21. identified by local Needs Assessment
22. 3. Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service
23. provision
24. 4. Exercise a critical understanding of personal scope of practice and to identify when a
25. patient needs referring on and where there are opportunities for developing the scope
26. and competence of the wider MDT to meet patient care needs
27. 5. Integrates a broad range of interventions into practice, including injection therapy and
28. independent prescribing, while also promoting non-pharmacological solutions to patient
29. care
30. 6. Through patient assessment and working in partnership with patients and their carers,
31. make decisions about the best pathway of care, informed by the urgency and severity of
32. patient need, patient acuity and dependency, and the most appropriate deployment of
33. resources
34. 7. Manage risk in unpredictable, uncertain situations to uphold patient safety, including by
35. referring on to other primary care team members and to specialist services, as needed
36. 8. Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and
37. codes of conduct
38. 9. Involves patients in decision making and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance
Qualifications
Essential
39. Completion of an undergraduate degree in Physiotherapy, and registration with the
40. Health and Care Professions Council
41. - Able to demonstrate in practice portfolio experience in core physiotherapy and MSK
42. physiotherapy
43. - Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)
44. - May hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification
45. - May hold or be working towards a postgraduate physiotherapy qualification