Your application should demonstrate evidence of advance/extended skill or work towards achieving these. This may include experience with advanced physiotherapy skills, investigations, making referrals, injection therapy or ultrasonography. We support training for each of these areas.
The right candidate will be expected to deliver a high standard of patient-centred care, possess a friendly and approachable attitude and apply outstanding team-working, communication and organisational skills to your daily practice.
Key Responsibilities:
* Triage, assess, diagnose and manage patients referred to the service from GPs, Consultants and other AHPs and arrange investigations and organise onward referral where appropriate.
* Treat and manage patients appropriately within a range of options including referring for diagnostics, referring patients onto a consultant for an expert medical opinion, referring patients to physiotherapy, podiatry, surgical appliances and any other community and secondary care services.
* Undertake highly specialised assessment of routine and highly complex patients presenting with spinal, peripheral and chronic pain problems using advanced management and treatment plans utilising a range of specialist treatments.
* Interpret and analyse tests and investigations to form accurate diagnosis and prognosis for a wide range of specialist treatments.
* Recommend the evidence based/best practice intervention for routine, complex and some highly complex conditions. This may include direct referral to secondary care consultants or allied health professionals and specialist investigations or the decision that no further treatment is required.
* Determine clinical indication and independently request specific diagnostic investigations e.g. X-ray, MRI, US, nerve conduction tests. Follow up on the results with patients and arrange further management as necessary.
* Determine and set agreed and realistic outcomes with patients to achieve anticipated outcome of treatment.
* Independently triage patients into the service referred by GPs, Consultants and AHPs.
* Perform steroid injections as appropriate.
You will be working across a number of specialities throughout the service, as well as supporting our One Stop Shop clinics, providing patients with consultation and treatment (if required) on the same day which could include an ultrasound, guided injection etc. There will be opportunities to be part of MDT meetings, we hold monthly In Service Reviews and CPD opportunities to apply for course funding. You will also support our primary care partners as an ACP/ APP based from one of the many PCNs we currently work with throughout the region, helping reduce wait lists.
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