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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Please note: As this post is part-time the salary will be pro-rata.
This is an exciting opportunity to join and continue to shape a service in an ambitious Health and Social Care Partnership.
We are looking for dynamic and highly skilled clinicians to join the already established MSK APP service in General Practice. You will be embedded within practice teams as a first contact practitioner and independently triage, assess, evaluate and diagnose patients with MSK problems.
You should be a forward thinking practitioner, who has the ability to bring about change and the desire to develop and improve services. You must have had previous experience of working independently within MSK physiotherapy services, as well as demonstrating excellent communication, teaching and organizational skills. You shoulder be working towards or have already attained post graduate Master levels qualifications .
See personal spec for further details.
This is an established service that is being expanded to adequately cover all GP practices in Midlothian.
It is envisaged that this post could have some MSK core physiotherapy hours and work closely with the current core physiotherapy service and secondary care to develop and improve the flow of MSK pathways within Midlothian.
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.
For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions please contact Fionna Mackinnon, acting lead physiotherapist on 07929 784469 or on 0131 537 9746