Advanced Clinical Practitioner MSK

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Ormskirk; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an experienced MSK Advanced Clinical Practitioner Physiotherapist to cover a maternity leave within the Joint Health Integrated MSK Service in Ormskirk. The post holder will drive patient-centred care, champion quality, and help achieve safe, effective outcomes.

The role requires leadership and educational skills, with a clear view to research and service development, and will operate within a multi-professional team delivering

Qualifications

• Evidence of MSK advanced practice is required.
• A vision for research and service development is required.
• Strong leadership and educational skills are expected.

Responsibilities

• Support patient-centred care and champion quality to deliver safe outcomes.
• Lead learning and supervision within a multi-professional MSK team.
• Contribute to the digital strategy and self-referral pathways in the service.

Skills

MSK Advanced Practice

Leadership

Education mentoring

Clinical Governance

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen a MSK Advanced Clinical Practitioner Physiotherapist to join the exemplar Joint Health Integrated MSK Service at MWL Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to cover a maternity leave. until May 2027. As an advanced clinical practitioner, the post holder will support the continued drive for patient centred care, champion quality, deliver performance targets and safe effective patient outcomes by placing the patients at the heart of all we do., The Joint Health Integrated MSK Service is a single point of access service offering self referral alongside specialist assessment, investigations, and treatment for patients with musculoskeletal conditions. The service utilises an escalation and de-escalation model. This enables appropriate access to all appropriate diagnostic services, treatment, and onward management when indicated. Several innovations and channels shifts have taken place in the service, accelerated due to the unprecedented times. This has been an exciting opportunity to develop our digital strategy/ delivery and incorporate the benefits of digital alongside face-to-face consultations whilst also being led by patients with lived experience and staff feedback. The team is multi-professional including: MSK Doctors, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Consultant Rheumatology MDT, Consultant Physiotherapists, Advanced MSK Physiotherapy Practitioners, Specialist Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist, MSK Physiotherapists, Advanced MSK Podiatry Practitioner, Specialist Occupational Hand Therapists, Advance Practice Rheumatology Therapist, Therapy Assistants and Admin support. The service puts a strong emphasis on and values the learning environment. The service ensures that staff can develop skills and knowledge to their full potential. The therapy outpatient service has a well-established supervision, case discussion and journal club programme.

We are looking for an experienced, dynamic, and highly motivated advanced physiotherapy practitioner who is enthusiastic and forward-thinking to support the Joint Health Integrated MSK Service. The successful candidate will have a wealth of musculoskeletal clinical experience and be able to demonstrate strong leadership and educational skills. A vision for research and service development is required to ensure continuing excellent patient and staff experience. Applicants must have evidence of MSK Physio Advance Practice The JD & PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to change

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites. We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care. Our services: Acute Care Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre. Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales. Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme