The Frimley Health Advanced Practitioner Team offer 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.
• 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, this 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
• 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 minimizes the need for pharmacological interventions and investigations
• To be able to assess and manage acute, chronic and complex patient presentations, refer patients on to Physiotherapy or Secondary Care for further management when appropriate.
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 threecore 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.
The APP team work 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 8 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 who provide a centre for 4 local GP practices.
Please see attached Job Description for further role information and the full list of responsibilities.
This advert closes on Thursday 5 Sep 2024