Seeking a First Contact Physiotherapist to join our team as part of the UHB workforce scheme! Six sessions per week.
We are seeking a motivated individual who shares our ethos and has a commitment to providing high quality care, to provide clinical expertise, acting as FCP & making decisions about the best course of action for patient’s care, without prior contact with a GP, in order to establish a quick & accurate diagnosis and management plan. Working 6 sessions a week, days/sessions can be negotiated, promoting work life balance. The Afon Elai Partnership is a merged General Practice of 3 years, caring for 16,000 residents of South-West Cardiff. We are a merger of 2 longstanding and successful practices, Westway Surgery and Meddygfa Lansdowne Surgery with five partners working from 2 sites easily accessible for the M4. We have an ethos of aiming to provide high-quality patient centered care, underpinned by a commitment to fairness and a focus on prioritising wellbeing over profit. We now have an exciting opportunity for a salaried GP to join our team, and help shape the future of a new strong and sustainable practice. Our balanced clinical team consists of GP partners, Salaried GPs, Physician Associates, Practice Pharmacists, Practice Nurses and Health Care Assistants alongside an excellent team of Patient Care Administrators providing care navigation and administrative support.
As a training practice we host registrars, medical students, general practice nurse trainees, foundation pharmacists and physician associate students and are committed to continuing professional development.
We are a pro-active member of Cardiff South-West Cluster, with one of our GP partners previously taking the role of Cluster Lead Community Director, a position which is now filled by our previous practice manager who we continue to work closely with, and another GP Partner is Locality Director. We work with local partners to explore how best to work in a cooperative way to maximise our patients' wellbeing. In addition, our cluster has established weekly multi agency multi-disciplinary team meetings and an active hub delivering welfare checks and health monitoring. Our Values: We aim to work with patients, other healthcare staff and community providers to provide safe, evidence based and patient-centered primary care, based on clinical need. This is underpinned by a commitment to fairness to each other, to our staff and to our patients. The practice should be financially secure and sustainable in order to provide security for our partners, staff and patients, rather than maximising profit. We aim to be a place where people want to come and work, where they feel valued and able to contribute.
Initial contract will be for a fixed term of 12 months, with possibility of extension in line with UHB workforce planning.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Takes professional responsibility as a first-contact physiotherapist, with high-level decision-making and clinical-reasoning skills to assess, diagnose and triage of patients
2. Manages a complex caseload (including patients with long-term conditions, co morbidities and multi-factorial needs),
3. Leads, manages and contributes to service delivery,
4. Accountable for decisions and actions via HCPC registration, supported by a professional culture of peer networking/review and engagement in evidence-based practice
5. Streamlines pathway of care by providing a responsive service so that patients receive timely access to care
6. Ensures care is proactive, preventive in focus and population based, with an emphasis on early intervention
7. Provides care which is tailored to the individual needs. This would include, appraising the impact of individuals' clinical status on their general health, well-being, employment status (including in relation to function, physical activity, mobility and independence
8. Supports patients to set their own goals and be confident in their approach to self management
9. Communicates effectively and appropriately with patients and carers complex and sensitive information regarding diagnosis, pathology and prognosis.
10. Uses a range of clinical skills which may include;
a. non-medical independent prescribing
b. joint / soft tissue injections
c. joint aspirations
11. Exercises professional judgement, making, justifying and taking responsibility for decisions in unpredictable situations, including in the context of incomplete/contradictory information
12. Manages interactions in complex situations, including with individuals with particular psychosocial and mental health needs and with colleagues across the primary care team, sectors and settings.
Further information can be obtained via the job description
To find out more, please contact Hannah Smith, Practice Manager to arrange a chat about this post or a visit to either of our surgeries - hannah.smith6@wales.nhs,.uk
