Build back Stronger

Also in this issue

• In front

  Becoming well-rounded clinicians

  Clinical placements develop students into physiotherapists but leadership placements can develop them into better ones  

  

• Features

  How we built Stronger My Way

  Online diaries, in-depth interviews, focus groups and surveys with members and people with lived experience gave us the following insights to build

  

• Profile

  ‘The best job in physiotherapy’

  In a changing of the guard at the CSP, Ash James is the youngest, at 34, to take on the job of director of practice and development.

  

• In the workplace

  Love the CSP? Big up your rep!

  CSP reps have risen to the challenge of supporting you in challenging times – you can thank them via the Rep of the Year Awards

  

• Hot topic

  Pillar Talk

  Let’s talk about the four pillars of physiotherapy practice and what they mean to you, CSP professional advisers Tamsin Baird and Sara Conroy

  

• Features

  Proudest moments

  Nominations for CSP Council are open until 16 May and we hope it may inspire you to nominate yourself for council

  

• CPD

  Practice-based learning: supporting, valuing, recognising

  Tamsin Baird and Deborah O’Connor share a series of recommendations to support the essential work of practice educator

  

• In the workplace

  Workplace wins

  Your CSP steward and safety reps are there to support you on individual workplace problems and to help coordinate collective responses to problems

  

• Innovations

  Innovations

  Medicines optimisation for the treatment of spasticity and neuropathic pain led by a physiotherapist independent prescriber Jenny Curran

  

• In person

  You can make a difference

  Karen Middleton invites members to stand for CSP Council, the profession’s leadership body 

  

• Viewpoint

  Ultrasound guided injections

  Diagnostic ultrasound and ultrasound guided injections have seen rapid growth in physiotherapy in recent years.

  

• Viewpoint

  Menopause: physician heal thyself

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  As role models for our patients, we must prioritise our self-care as we go into the menopause, says Christien Bird

  

• Resources

  Resources

  A selection of the latest tools and information sources

  

• In question

  Working in the private sector and equal pay

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  ‘I work in the private sector. Am I entitled to equal pay?’

  

• Last word

  Develop and build on the skills you already have

  Kirsty Semple, CSP head of governance, explains why you may have just what it takes to be a council member