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Job reference: 007091
Salary: Band 6 (£30,401 - £38,046)
Job closing date: 30/10/2019
Job Type: Allied Health Professions
Location: South Partnership
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Job posted date: 16/10/2019
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
Department: MSK Physiotherapy

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You will take day to day responsibility for a specialised musculoskeletal clinical  area with a caseload incorporating patient triage, assessment, diagnosis,
      treatment and discharge from physiotherapy care.  As a highly experienced practitioner you will be responsible for assisting in planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating  the physiotherapy service provided to the musculoskeletal out-patient speciality.  You will supervise other Physiotherapists as well as Physiotherapy Support Workers and students on clinical placement where necessary.  You will be responsible for identifying those patients with the risk of serious pathology who require urgent referral to other services e.g. A&E, G.P. and back pain service and appropriately manage the ongoing referral.  Using clinical reasoning skills to assess, analyse and interpret both clinical and non clinical information and provide a comprehensive clinical diagnosis for individual patients, to determine their need for physiotherapy intervention. This includes patients with complex presentations.  It is essential that you have a Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy and that you are currently registered with the HCPC.  You should have significant post graduate experience which includes relevant experience within a musculoskeletal speciality.


Informal Contact: Vivien Thomson, MSK Physiotherapy Manager, Tel No: 07976812361



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