This fixed-term post provides five months' maternity cover as a First Contact Physiotherapist, working 37.5 hours a week in GP practices. Work centres on assessing, diagnosing and managing musculoskeletal patients at first contact, including requesting investigations and planning self-management. The post sits within a multidisciplinary team across several practices, with scope for injection therapy and independent prescribing, supported by funded training. Applicants need HCPC and CSP registration and at least five years' postgraduate experience, three in MSK.
What the job involves
- Independently assess, diagnose and manage MSK presentations, including complex cases
- Request investigations such as imaging and blood tests, and make appropriate referrals
- Create tailored self-management plans supporting behavioural change and recovery
- Use full scope of practice, including prescribing and injection therapy where qualified
- Record utilisation data daily and collect Patient Satisfaction Questionnaires
- Work within a GP-based MDT and build relationships with practice staff
- Educate colleagues on MSK triage pathways and give informal clinical guidance
- Support clinical audits and service improvement
- Help shape and refine local MSK care pathways
- Take part in supervision and peer reflection
- Progress against the HEE Roadmap to Practice
- Contribute to clinical governance and mentoring where appropriate
What’s required
Qualifications
Registration & licences
- HCPC registration
- CSP registration
Experience
- Minimum 5 years post-graduate clinical experience
- Minimum 3 years MSK clinical experience
- Understanding of the HEE Roadmap to Practice and the MSK Core Capabilities Framework
- Active CPD portfolio aligned to the four pillars of advanced practice
Skills & knowledge
- Confident, friendly and collaborative, able to fit into GP practice teams
- Able to build working relationships with GPs, reception, nurses and MDT colleagues
- Excellent communication and clinical reasoning
- Calm, resilient and proactive in a fast-paced, evolving setting
- Comfortable using digital tools and modern clinical systems
- Committed to ethical, professional and patient-centred care
Nice to have
- Some level 7 MSc learning (HEE Roadmap stages 1 and 2)
- Prior FCP or MSK triage experience, NHS or private
- Experience working in GP practices
- Experience using EMIS or SystmOneQualified independent prescriber
- Qualified injection therapist
What’s offered
- 12.5+ days protected CPD and supervision time a year
- Fully funded training in injection therapy and independent prescribing
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 33 with service
- Enhanced sick pay scheme
- Corporate private healthcare cash plan via Medicash
- Salary sacrifice for electric vehicles, Cycle2Work and TechScheme
- Flexible workplace pension
- Refer-a-friend bonus scheme
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