Job Description

Job Introduction

A rare opportunity has arisen to become part of the MSK South locality team. This role requires the Physiotherapist to have excellent communication and organisational skills.


You will be expected to travel across all sites in the South locality; Amesbury, Salisbury, Five Rivers and Wilton


Our service is well respected, and we have developed strong relationships with local GP practices, Orthopaedic and Rheumatology consultants, midwives as well as other healthcare professionals. Patients are able to self refer to our service and we have a growing number of First Contact Physiotherapists (FCP), within the GP practices, who also refer patients to us.


The MSK service for Wiltshire is based in 11 community sites with excellent links to our acute hospitals in Bath, Swindon as well as Salisbury.


For an informal discussion please contact Lyndsey Flaherty,


Email: lyndsey.flaherty@hcrgcaregroup.com


Main Responsibilities

To provide a safe, patient focused, effective and evidence-based Physiotherapy service in


collaboration with other team members and actively contribute to on-going service improvements.

To assess, plan, implement and evaluate physiotherapeutic intervention and provide and clinically

effective treatment for patients.

To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, seeking clinical support when

required and working within sphere of competence.

To provide a local Physiotherapy service in satellite locations as the service requires. Working in accordance with Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) Standards, plus national and

local guidelines, policies and procedures.

To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of work, insuring a safe and high

standard of care, and appropriate mandated record keeping.

To ensure up to date evidence based knowledge and skills, with maintained competence in a range of

physio therapeutic skills.

To contribute to undertaking audits, evaluation of outcomes, and formulation of and completion of

action plans.

To integrate with the multi-disciplinary teams throughout Wiltshire. To promote the patient's adherence to treatment and self-management, resulting in the best outcome

for the patient.

Please see the attached Job description for the full list.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

HCPC Registered BSc or equivalent in Physiotherapy Completion of student placements Evidence of on-going CPD / Reflective Practice in-line with job role Experience in treating MSK, Respiratory and Orthopaedic Patients (student or qualified level) Delivering class based treatment Participating in clinical and/or operational audits Good verbal and written communication skills including the ability to keep legible and accurate

records

Ability to communicate with individuals with communication difficulties Good organisational skills including time management Ability to manage a varied caseload Ability to make clinically reasoned judgements and diagnosis on a variety of conditions Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner and seek appropriate advice / guidance when

required

Ability to identify patients with non-musculoskeletal presentations and seek support to appropriately

refer on.

Good assessment and treatment skills including manual therapy, exercise prescription, directing a class IT Skills including the use of Outlook, Patient Administration Systems, Imaging Viewers, Word,

PowerPoint




About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.


Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.


We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.


While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.


As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.



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Package Description

You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

Band 5 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions Free tea and coffee at your base location Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least 100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year * The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission