Advanced Practitioner Physiotherapist

In return for your expertise and hard work, we offer a wide range of benefits including:

• A commitment to Agenda for Change
• NHS Pension
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays (This increases to 29 days after five years' service and 33 days after 10 years)
• Career development opportunities
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Home electronics scheme
• Discounted travel
• Shopping discounts

This is your opportunity to join Nottingham CityCare’s highly regarded MOSAIC (Musculoskeletal Orthopaedic Spinal pain And Integrated Chronic fatigue syndrome) Service as AN Advanced Practitioner Physiotherapist across the newly appointed Primary Care Networks (PCNs) in Nottingham City.

Employed as an Advanced Practitioner Physiotherapist, your First Contact Practitioner role, will require you to be assigned to a GP Practice where you will perform advanced MSK assessments, diagnosis and first line treatment and (if appropriate) investigations and referrals with the overarching aim to reduce primary care resources.

The successful candidates will have to demonstrate a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making across a range of settings, enabling innovative solutions to enhance patient’s experience and improve outcomes. To enhance your current skillset, we provide a training package that will include:

• Bespoke Musculoskeletal Core Capabilities Framework for our locality
• Bloods made easy
• IRMER
• Pharmacy
• Internal referral pathway
• Hand Assessment in primary care
• Rheumatology
• Post graduate module – advanced practice
• FCP e-learning modules

Additionally, you will be fully integrated in to The MOSAIC Service and the opportunity to be involved in:

• Orthopaedic triage of secondary care referrals
• Clinical assessment and treatment planning within our Integrated Clinical Assessment and Treatment (ICATS) clinics.
• Diagnostic referrals (MRI scans, x-ray, USS etc.)
• Service evaluation (please see job description and person spec for further details).
• Regular supervision
• In-service Training (internal and external speakers)
• Being a part of  Nottingham’s GP+ ‘first contact physiotherapy’ out of hours clinic.  This will be arranged on a rota basis that involves working up until 20:00 during the week and 13:00 on the weekend.

MOSAIC is a large, friendly and innovative team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, pain consultants, specialist GPs and exercise rehabilitation practitioners. We offer a high quality and adaptable service to meet the needs of our local communities, as well as, being research driven and established links with The University of Nottingham.  Not only are we patient focussed, we have a strong ethos of continuous development and our unique service will allow you to develop your career down your chosen path with our support.

The ability to travel between clinic locations is essential and there will be an expectation to work some evenings and Saturday clinics.

As a not-for-profit provider of NHS services to communities in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, we provide the same patient centred care, but with the flexibility and freedom to innovate and embrace new thinking. Our colleagues enjoy the same NHS pension and benefits, along with the assurance that money we have is reinvested into patient care, our staff and our community. We also work closely with our partners in health and social care to make sure that together we provide the best possible quality of care.

Please take note; interviews will be held virtually over Microsoft Teams on 2nd November 2020. Please provide an Outlook email address.

For further information please contact Adam Scott (Team Manager) or Richard Kelly (Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist) on 0115 8838300.

Successful candidates will be required to apply for a DBS check. Nottingham CityCare Partnership is a completely smoke free organisation.

Interview arrangements will be communicated by email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

Appointment to this post will be subject to standard pre-employment checks.

Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC is an equal opportunities employer. We are positive about employing people with disabilities. If you require your application in a different format please contact Human Resources on 0115 8839418.

Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC is committed to the protection of vulnerable adults and children.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Nottingham CityCare Partnership reserves the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received.

CityCare value the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce. Our primary objective during the recruitment process is to ensure we recruit the best candidate for the position and we strive to reflect the community we serve. Therefore, we encourage applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBT+ or from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, as they are currently under-represented within our organisation.

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Appointment to this post will be subject to pre-employment checks as per NHS Employer Check Standards.

Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC is an equal opportunities employer. We are positive about employing people with disabilities. If you require your application in a different format please contact Human Resources on 0115 8839418. Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC is committed to the protection of vulnerable adults and children.

To apply, download the application form and return a completed copy to the supplied email address.