Advanced Podiatry Practitioner MSK Advanced Practice Service (MSKAPS)

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider seeks a professional to deliver remote triage and manage clinical cases, enhancing team capabilities through education and development. The role requires significant expertise in assessment and treatment, contributing to patient pathways in MSK services.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical assessment and management.
• Ability to request diagnostic imaging and provide appropriate treatments.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to remote triage and manage complex foot and ankle cases.
• Support team development through research, audit, training, and clinical pathways.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Diagnostic imaging

Treatment advising

Research

Education and Training

Job description

You will contribute to the remote triage of referrals into the Single Point of Access MSK Specialist Triage Service, as well as being responsible for the management of a complex foot and ankle clinical caseload. This will include clinical assessment, requesting of appropriate diagnostic imaging, treatment (advising/prescribing of medicines and exercise/ injecting/providing orthoses as appropriate) and appropriate onward referral to community and secondary care services.

You will contribute to the wider functioning and development of the team through research, audit, training and education, working across all parts of the Gloucestershire MSK pathway and across professional boundaries. You will support core services, working on integration and clinical development pathways, and you will represent MSKAPS on appropriate MDTs with secondary care teams.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.