Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner

Bupa; Salford; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking an Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner (APP) for a home-based role, offering flexible hours. You will deliver high-quality physiotherapy consultations, ensuring excellent service and support for Bupa clients while benefiting from a range of professional development opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

25 days holiday per year, increasing with service

Bupa health insurance

Enhanced pension plan

Annual performance-based bonus

Various online discounts

Qualifications

• MSc post graduate qualification in MSK Physiotherapy required.
• 5 years experience in MSK with at least 3 in a senior role.
• Registered with HCPC and CSP.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring outstanding professional service standards.
• Arranging treatment for higher risk cases.
• Monitoring complex cases and ensuring patient satisfaction.

Skills

Assessment skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Education

MSc in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy

HCPC registration

Job description

Job Description:

Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner (APP)

Homebased with occasional attendance in either Bupa Place (Salford Quays, M50 3SP) or alternative local Bupa Centre as required.

Contract hours: Full-time and Part-time available (Flexible)

Salary: Competitive

Flexible shift pattern – based on 37.5 hour working week, minimum working hours of 22.5 hours per week

The service we provide operates between 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday.
You would be expected to work one late shift per week (12-8pm) and one Saturday (8am-4pm) every 6 weeks.

We make health happen

At Bupa, you’ll have the freedom to develop new lines of care, with the flexibility and development opportunities to push your career further.

As an APP, you’ll be eager to continue learning and building skills while working with talented colleagues.

This is a remote physiotherapy consultation service available for Bupa Insurance Members, Occupational Health and Corporate Customers. The service runs alongside other providers to ensure fast access to triage where no other GP referral has been made.

The service serves two purposes; to provide support and information to enable individuals to self-manage their musculoskeletal condition and where necessary, facilitate onward referral to the appropriate recognised clinicians or services.

If you can bring us the skills we’re looking for we can help you build a career at a company that truly has belief in you.

You’ll help us make health happen by:

• Ensuring outstanding professional and customer service standards are delivered by the Physioline team, using NPS survey results, complaints, and immediate customer feedback to drive continuous improvement in delivery, giving individual feedback where necessary.

• Arranging appropriate treatment for higher risk cases and work closely with the PhysioLine support team to ensure a seamless and effective service to every customer.

• Ensuring compliance by the Physioline team with all clinical and operational performance policies, procedures and protocols issued by Bupa.

• Liaising with other members of the MSK team to ensure best practice particularly where the diagnosis is in doubt and/or the patient is not responding to Physiotherapy treatment in the expected fashion.

• Ensuring that physiotherapy care is delivered as defined in the quality standards, taking into consideration best practice, Bupa care pathways and all necessary professional codes of conduct and managing this through annual clinical reviews and biannual notes audits.

• Delivering excellent standards of telephone assessment via audio or video, providing diagnosis and facilitating onward referrals.

• Monitoring and follow up complex cases and red flag cases.

• Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction through effective delivery within expected quality measures.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• MSc post graduate qualification in MSK Physiotherapy or University accredited Post Graduate modules in MSK/Advanced Practice. Post grad module relevant to diagnostic nature of APP service

• HCPC registered/CSP Registered

• 5 years post graduate experience in MSK with at least 3 years in a senior role in MSK

• Experience working in the NHS as an MSK APP

• Demonstrate post graduate learning and advanced clinical skills (MSc level) in patient assessment, diagnostics with development of treatment plan, including evidence of working at Level 7 (MSc level) all 4 pillars (clinical practice, leadership & management, education and research

• Ability to order and interpret diagnostic tests

• Up to date with own clinical practice and demonstrates an ability to maintain clinical competence

• Ability to evaluate, plan and prioritise workload within demanding time scales

• Excellent application of clinical knowledge

• Enthusiastic, self-motivated and self-sufficient

• Ability to respond rapidly and decisively

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills & a team player

• Strong problem-solving capability

• Telephone triage experience desirable

• IT proficient

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:

Part time

Job Area:

Clinical Services

Locations:

Home Based North c/o Bupa Place