Location: Croydon Healthcare Services
Hours: 37.5
Main Duties:
The Croydon Orthopaedic Practitioner Service provides triage and assessment of MSK and orthopaedic conditions of the spine and peripheral joints that have been referred into secondary care, and delivers the Virtual Fracture Clinic Service. The team of APPs work both independently and alongside orthopaedic consultants in hospital locations throughout the London borough of Croydon to deliver high quality, evidence-based care. This includes electronic triage, virtual and face-to-face assessments and management, which could involve requesting diagnostic investigations, and, as appropriate, injecting, non-medical prescribing and listing for surgery in discussion with consultants You will be involved in the development of the service and it is vital to have the desire to develop and improve the service and have the ability to bring about change.
Support and training will be provided by our experienced APP team and secondary care consultants. You will be actively involved in our in-service training programme, regular regional APP CPD and Trust Clinical Governance meetings. There is the opportunity to work towards Health Education England Advanced Practice Accreditation. Support in obtaining post-graduate qualifications in injection therapy, non-medical prescribing and diagnostic ultrasound will be considered, depending on service needs and personal development plans.
Essential Criteria:
- Registered with Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Experience and education equivalent to master’s level
- MSc in Musculoskeletal practice
Skills and Abilities:
- Expert advanced clinical practitioner
- Excellent time management & organisation skills
- Excellent team building and working skills
- Excellent clinical reasoning
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills
- Ability to speak to Consultants and GPs at an informed level
- Ability to work under Trust guidelines
- Excellent leadership & motivational skills
- Strong presentation skills
- IT skill: use of word, email/internet, power point, Excel
- IRMER trained
Experience:
- Previous Extended Scope Practitioner/Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner position
- Experience as a band 7 clinical musculoskeletal physiotherapist
- Highly specialist knowledge and experience of musculoskeletal and related disorders
- Evidence of extensive postgraduate clinical training