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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
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs .