First Contact Practitioner - Wallington, United Kingdom - Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Wallington, United Kingdom

6 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are looking for two physiotherapists to provide first-contact MSK care within primary care across Sutton GP practices and work in a new innovative way.

You will have an excellent clinical assessment and triage skills; be a great communicator, motivational skills and happy to drive forward rapid change.

You must be innovative, organised, and computer literate and demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills with a commitment to continued personal development.

The post is mostly based across GP surgeries in Sutton and Wallington with integration in the community MSK service. You must be able to meet the travel requirements of this post.

We are looking for two FCPs who will provide clinical expertise, acting as first-contact Musculoskeletal (MSK) practitioners and deciding the best course of action for patients' care.

This will involve seeing patients, without prior contact with their GP.

Practitioners will use their clinical-reasoning skills to undertake an assessment of the presenting problem, interpret findings, develop working and differential diagnoses, and formulate, communicate and implement management plans that take account of individual's needs, goals and wishes, local service availability and local and national guidelines and policies.

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey.

In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life.

We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas.

Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.