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Physiotherapy First Contact Practitioner

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Location
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum
Profession
Nurse practitioner
Grade
Band 7
Deadline
08 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
25 Jun 2025

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.”

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached documents which will provide the Job Description and responsibilities for this post.