Job overview

We’re looking for an exceptional Physiotherapy First Contact Practitioner (FCP), and we want to hear from you.  We’re a successful Trust with a strong commitment to delivering the highest standards of clinical quality, patient care and staff experience.  The key to our success is simple:  our people.  Their experience, knowledge, passion and ideas are our greatest resource.  Your job will be to deliver the FCP role, working with our system partners to ensure our patients receive timely and expert musculoskeletal assessment and access appropriate pathway driven care.  With your clinical experience and expertise in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, together with your energy and commitment to our public service, you’ll be able to make a huge difference.  We’re looking for a highly skilled musculoskeletal physiotherapist, able to work with our system partners to delivery excellent FCP and musculoskeletal care.

Main duties of the job

As an FCP you will support the Head of Physiotherapy Service, Physiotherapy Professional & Service Development Leads (PSDL) and our system partners, to co-ordinate, develop and implement the Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapy Service.  Alongside other Senior Physiotherapists, you will work as part of our MSK Out-patient Physiotherapy and FCP Team and embody our proud to CARE values to contribute to a truly inclusive workplace.  At the heart of this role is providing specialised physiotherapy assessment and identifying appropriate treatment pathways for our patients, including working collaboratively with our system partners, developing and implementing the plans, procedures and governance to contribute to the system wide Musculoskeletal Service.  We’re not shy about celebrating our people at the Trust and taking them with us on our collaborative working journey.  So, we want you to lead in developing the FCP role at our Trust.  Here’s a message from Sharon Wood, one of our PSDL’s, who will be your line manager: “If your experience, expertise and motivation can help us work with our system partners to deliver the excellent MSK and FCP Physiotherapy services our patients deserve, come and join us, I’d love to welcome you on board.”

Working for our organisation

We provide a full range of district general services including urgent and emergency care, specialist children’s services, maternity and community midwifery.  We also offer primary care through three GP practices with eight surgeries between them.  Our vision is exceptional care provided by exceptional people.  Our mission is to bring our people, communities and partners together- providing patient care we can all be proud of.  Your energy and leadership will be critical to our success.  

We are firmly rooted in the founding principles of the NHS, and we have built on this by “Leading the Chesterfield Way”, and with our Proud to CARE values.  This means leading with care, openness, integrity and embedding an inclusive culture. We know that people have a life and responsibilities outside of work and we offer flexibility and a whole raft of support to care for your physical and mental wellbeing.  This role is hugely important to us and we look forward to hearing from you. 

For further information please see the attached job description and role specification. Please contact Sharon Wood, PSDL at [email protected] with any other enquiries

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

 UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.  Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.  Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form.  Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.  Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be  eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications 

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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