Job summary
Mayflower Medical Group is looking for a Remote First Contact Physio who will work alongside a team of in person physios as we look to grow 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. We have an e-consultation service that often attracts an array of Musculoskeletal issues. A remote physio can add further efficiency to our process and allow for MSK issues to receive care from home.
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 who can be based remotely across the UK to aid our growing multi disciplinary team.
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 engaging with 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
- Provide clinical expertise, acting as first-contact physiotherapist and making decisions
about the best course of action for patients' care
- 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
- 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
- Takes professional responsibility as a first-contact physiotherapist, with high-level
decision-making and clinical-reasoning skills to assess, diagnose and triage of patients
- Manages a complex caseload (including patients with long-term conditions, comorbidities and multi-factorial needs)
- Leads, manages and contributes to service delivery
- Accountable for decisions and actions via HCPC registration, supported by a
professional culture of peer networking/review and engagement in evidence-based
practice
- Streamlines pathway of care by providing a responsive service so that patients receive
timely access to care
- Ensures care is proactive, preventive in focus and population based, with an emphasis
on early intervention
- 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)
- Supports patients to set their own goals and be confident in their approach to self-management
- Communicates effectively and appropriately with patients and carers complex and
sensitive information regarding diagnosis, pathology and prognosis.
- Uses a range of clinical skills which may include
a. non-medical independent prescribing
b. joint / soft tissue injections
c. joint aspirations
- Provides learning opportunities for the whole multi professional team within primary
care
- Works with MDT to develop more effective and streamlined clinical pathways and
services
- Exercises professional judgement, making, justifying and taking responsibility for
decisions in unpredictable situations, including in the context of
incomplete/contradictory information
- 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
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide clinical expertise, acting as first-contact physiotherapist and making decisions
about the best course of action for patients' care
- 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
- 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
- Takes professional responsibility as a first-contact physiotherapist, with high-level
decision-making and clinical-reasoning skills to assess, diagnose and triage of patients
- Manages a complex caseload (including patients with long-term conditions, comorbidities and multi-factorial needs)
- Leads, manages and contributes to service delivery
- Accountable for decisions and actions via HCPC registration, supported by a
professional culture of peer networking/review and engagement in evidence-based
practice
- Streamlines pathway of care by providing a responsive service so that patients receive
timely access to care
- Ensures care is proactive, preventive in focus and population based, with an emphasis
on early intervention
- 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)
- Supports patients to set their own goals and be confident in their approach to self-management
- Communicates effectively and appropriately with patients and carers complex and
sensitive information regarding diagnosis, pathology and prognosis.
- Uses a range of clinical skills which may include
a. non-medical independent prescribing
b. joint / soft tissue injections
c. joint aspirations
- Provides learning opportunities for the whole multi professional team within primary
care
- Works with MDT to develop more effective and streamlined clinical pathways and
services
- Exercises professional judgement, making, justifying and taking responsibility for
decisions in unpredictable situations, including in the context of
incomplete/contradictory information
- 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
- 1. Demonstrates general physiotherapy skills and knowledge in core areas
- 2. Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general physiotherapy care
- programmes for patients in core areas, including disease states / long term conditions
- identified by local Needs Assessment
- 3. Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service
- provision
- 4. Exercise a critical understanding of personal scope of practice and to identify when a
- patient needs referring on and where there are opportunities for developing the scope
- and competence of the wider MDT to meet patient care needs
- 5. Integrates a broad range of interventions into practice, including injection therapy and
- independent prescribing, while also promoting non-pharmacological solutions to patient
- care
- 6. Through patient assessment and working in partnership with patients and their carers,
- make decisions about the best pathway of care, informed by the urgency and severity of
- patient need, patient acuity and dependency, and the most appropriate deployment of
- resources
- 7. Manage risk in unpredictable, uncertain situations to uphold patient safety, including by
- referring on to other primary care team members and to specialist services, as needed
- 8. Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and
- codes of conduct
- 9. Involves patients in decision making and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance
Qualifications
Essential
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in Physiotherapy, and registration with the
- Health and Care Professions Council
- - Able to demonstrate in practice portfolio experience in core physiotherapy and MSK
- physiotherapy
- - Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)
- - May hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification
- - May hold or be working towards a postgraduate physiotherapy qualification
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 1. Demonstrates general physiotherapy skills and knowledge in core areas
- 2. Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general physiotherapy care
- programmes for patients in core areas, including disease states / long term conditions
- identified by local Needs Assessment
- 3. Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service
- provision
- 4. Exercise a critical understanding of personal scope of practice and to identify when a
- patient needs referring on and where there are opportunities for developing the scope
- and competence of the wider MDT to meet patient care needs
- 5. Integrates a broad range of interventions into practice, including injection therapy and
- independent prescribing, while also promoting non-pharmacological solutions to patient
- care
- 6. Through patient assessment and working in partnership with patients and their carers,
- make decisions about the best pathway of care, informed by the urgency and severity of
- patient need, patient acuity and dependency, and the most appropriate deployment of
- resources
- 7. Manage risk in unpredictable, uncertain situations to uphold patient safety, including by
- referring on to other primary care team members and to specialist services, as needed
- 8. Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and
- codes of conduct
- 9. Involves patients in decision making and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance
Qualifications
Essential
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in Physiotherapy, and registration with the
- Health and Care Professions Council
- - Able to demonstrate in practice portfolio experience in core physiotherapy and MSK
- physiotherapy
- - Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)
- - May hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification
- - May hold or be working towards a postgraduate physiotherapy qualification
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
