Hertfordshire Musculoskeletal Service is currently looking for a Musculoskeletal Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner to join our community team.
This is an exciting opportunity to utilise your advanced musculoskeletal practitioner expertise and further develop clinical and leadership skills as part of an experienced out-patient integrated service. We have a commitment to clinical quality and ensure regular supervision and CPD opportunities
You will be working within the MSK Clinical, Assessment and Treatment Service (MSKCATS) which form part of the integrated community MSK Services in the trust working alongside MSK Physiotherapy, the ACTIVATE for CFS and Persistent Pain team and the Hand Therapy team.
The successful applicant will have excellent communication skills, take a lead role in clinical delivery and provide a key focus for MSK clinical expertise.
• The APP is the primary decision maker in the triage of Orthopaedic, Pain and Rheumatology referrals from GPs and Allied Health Professionals, which would traditionally be seen by a consultant. This includes referring patients with serious pathology and immediate surgical/medical needs directly into secondary care.
• To undertake a highly specialised comprehensive assessment of patients including those with complex and diverse conditions.
• To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, coordination and palpatory skills for assessment and manual treatment of patients.
• To use highly developed clinical reasoning and evidence based knowledge to draw up an appropriate management planwith the patient. To implement specialist treatment either within the MSK multidisciplinary service or referral on to other services.
• To initiate and interpret specialist investigations (such as X-ray, ultrasound, MRI) to assist in the formation of a diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To prescribe and administer injections (such as cortico-steroid injections and local anaesthetics) for treatment and diagnostic purposes.
• A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
• You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff
• We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities
• Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision
• We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds
• We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible - Apply now
• You’ve made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.
• The Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust MSK Clinical Assessment and Treatment Service (MSKCATS) is a community team, which manages Orthopaedic, Pain and Rheumatology referrals from GPs in East & North Hertfordshire localities. The APP is the first point of contact.
• APP’s are experts within their field whose role it is to triage, assess/diagnose and treat patients with highly complex multi pathologies who would normally have been seen in a consultant outpatient clinic. The management of such patients requires advanced clinical reasoning skills and the resolution of conflicting views.
• The APP triages patients into primary and secondary care services; discharging and prioritising patients, including those with serious pathology.
• The APP is a musculoskeletal expert resource for the Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Musculoskeletal Service providing the highest level of expertise on MSK conditions and advice to other services and professions including GP’s and hospital medical staff.
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This advert closes on Friday 14 Feb 2025
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