• Job Description

  Req#: A2381-24-0012-Plym?language=en&page=1297&sort=publicationDateDe

  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.

  Date posted

  29 August 2024

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  £45,000 to £50,000 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  A2381-24-0012-Plym

  Job locations

  Mayflower Medical Group

  Stirling Road

  Plymouth

  PL5 1PL

  
  

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  Queen Street

  Barnstaple

  Devon

  EX32 8HY

  
  

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  Canaan Way

  Ottery St. Mary

  Devon

  EX11 1EQ

  
  

  Bramley Village Health and Wellbeing Centre, 16 Highfield Rd, Leeds LS13 2BL

  Bramley, Leeds

  LS13 2BL

  
  

  Briercliffe Surgery

  Briercliffe Road

  Burnley

  Lancashire

  BB10 2EZ

  
  

  Mannamead Surgery

  22 Eggbuckland Road

  Plymouth

  PL3 5HE

  
  

  Crawcrook Medical Centre

  Pattinson Drive

  Ryton

  Tyne And Wear

  NE40 4US

  
  

  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

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Fuller and Forbes Partnership

  Address

  Mayflower Medical Group

  Stirling Road

  Plymouth

  PL5 1PL

  
  

  Employer's website

  http://bramleyonline.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Fuller and Forbes Partnership

  Address

  Mayflower Medical Group

  Stirling Road

  Plymouth

  PL5 1PL

  
  

  Employer's website

  http://bramleyonline.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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