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Band 8b First Contact Practitioner (FCP) Lead Barnet Hospital | Full-time / Part-time considered
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and experienced clinician to lead our First Contact Practitioner (FCP) service across Barnet and Enfield. This is a new 8b leadership role with responsibility for shaping and developing a high-performing, integrated FCP team.
Our established model is fully integrated across primary and secondary care, with all FCPs maintaining clinical roles within secondary care services. This supports strong, collaborative relationships with orthopaedic consultants and ensures high-quality, seamless patient care across pathways.
The postholder will work closely alongside our Advanced Practice Lead, providing system leadership and supporting service development across the pathway.
We are seeking a motivated leader with advanced clinical expertise, strong system leadership skills, and a passion for service development and workforce innovation.
Main duties of the job
Key highlights:
- Strategic leadership of the FCP service across Barnet and Enfield
- Work alongside the Advanced Practice Lead
- Integrated primary–secondary care model
- Strong links with orthopaedics and wider MDTs
- Opportunity to shape future service delivery and workforce model
If you are looking to take the next step in advanced practice leadership within a progressive and collaborative system, we would love to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- • Substantial postgraduate experience in musculoskeletal field including pain management and working at Advanced Practice Level including First Contact Practice
- • Advanced knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of patients with a wide variety of conditions including complex chronic pain conditions
- • Experience of cognitive behavioural approaches to pain
- • Experience of delivering group work
- • Experience in managing highly distressed patients in group and individual settings
- • Experience of supervising senior qualified staff
- • Experience of leading a service/ team
- • Active involvement in clinical audit, research and policy/ guideline implementation
- • Experience of teaching to uni-disciplinary/ multidisciplinary groups
- • Evidence of service development & contribution to change within the workplace
- • Experience of working alone, managing own time and using excellent organisational skills
Skills and aptitudes
Essential
- • Highly specialist knowledge within the pain and musculoskeletal field and ability to apply this in a clinical setting
- • Knowledge of recent developments in the profession
- • To be competent in the decision making process and ordering of any investigations necessary in order to reach a diagnosis or decide on the appropriate management of the patient’s condition e.g. x-rays, MRI, blood tests, EMGs, ultrasound, listing for surgery in line with protocols and guidelines. This will require highly advanced clinical reasoning and highly developed problem solving and analytical skills and is beyond the normal scope of physiotherapy practice.
- • Skills in critical analysis and the application of research to practice
- • Ability to support and facilitate change
- • Excellent communication / interpersonal skills both written and verbal
- • To manage stressful situations by remaining calm, objective and professional at all times
- • Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
- • Able to carry out concurrent activities (multi-tasking) and work in an unpredictable working pattern
- • Ability to lead in service development, liaising closely with the MDT in order to promote clinical excellence
- • Competent IT skills including use of internet, email and word processing
- • Excellent presentation skills
- • Excellent leadership skills
- • A commitment to professional development of self and others
Desirable
- • Demonstrate an understanding of NHS reforms and policies and their impact on service
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential
- • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Personal Qualities & attributes
Essential
- • Highly effective interpersonal skills, including assertiveness & ability to negotiate in a range of situations
- • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- • Self-motivated to achieve personal and professional goals to an excellent standard as appropriate to the job role
- • Ability to recognise unacceptable behaviour in others and manage this appropriately
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential
- • BSc Degree in Physiotherapy or Diploma or equivalent
- • Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration
- • Postgraduate training or development in clinical skills up to MSc level or equivalent with a focus in pain or musculoskeletal physiotherapy
- • Evidence or portfolio of post-graduate continued development
- • Postgraduate training or development in management and leadership skills
Desirable
- • Membership of specialist interest group
- • Independent prescriber qualification
- • Musculoskeletal injection therapy qualification
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This advert is for Band 8b First Contact Practitioner Lead, MSK with Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £72,719 - £83,505 per annum inclusive of HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 03 Aug 2026.
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