Advanced MSK Physiotherapist

SWB Trust comprises Secondary Care specialities, Community Services and GP practices and we additionally support GP PCNs in the Sandwell and West Birmingham areas to promote integrated care. This brings the opportunity to deliver streamlined pathways.

This is a hybrid first contact physiotherapy role where our aims include acting as a specialist resource to the primary care team. You would be expected to achieve FCP accreditation within the first year and will be supported to do this. We hope to offer choice and flexibility to our complex local population, support the NHS Green Agenda and reduce barriers to help our patients access high quality care. The post will be based at Rowley Regis Hospital.

You will be expected to demonstrate that you have undertaken development across the 4 pillars of advanced practice with particular emphasis on the clinical pillar at Level 7. NHS experience is essential and experience across different healthcare sectors will be an advantage together with relevant knowledge and clinical experience.

Our service priorities include research and education and we are proud of our close links with local Universities including Birmingham and Keele. We support post-graduate ACP apprentices and MACP placements in partnership with the University of Birmingham and staff development is a priority with 3.5 hours ringfenced weekly for supervision, mandatory training and self-directed learning activity., The role involves working as a lead clinician planning, delivering, evaluating and developing musculoskeletal (MSK) care as a First Contact Practitioner within a PCN as part of the primary care MDT together with the opportunity to work alongside colleagues from the SWBH MSK Service at Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals Trust.

Help to create and promote a culture of learning, acting as a mentor and playing an active role in the supervision, assessment and education of peers, MDT colleagues, support workers and students.

Undertake continuous personal professional development across the 4 pillars of practice - clinical, leadership/management, education, and service evaluation/research demonstrating Level 7 in the clinical pillar and working towards Level 7 in the other pillars

Identify opportunities to promote fitness and wellbeing among patients, Trust employees and the general public, making every contact count, providing added value, promoting function and reducing musculoskeletal sickness absence.

Lead and support evidence based audit and research activity to further develop MSK practice, making and acting upon recommendations for changes in practice to improve service delivery and outcomes

Liaise with the Consultant Physiotherapists, ACP Lead and Operational Leads to streamlined patient-centered MSK Care across the integrated NHS Trust and local community

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
1. Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
2. Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
3. Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live