Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist – Lincolnshire MSK CATS
- Employer
- Care UK
- Location
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £26,000 - £30,000 per annum dependent on experience
- Closing date
- 19 Sep 2017
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- Sector
- Community Nursing
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
About the Job
Do you have the passion to make a difference to patients who need MSK treatment? Are you looking to add extra skills to your portfolio and work with an expanding service? If so, look no further, as we could have the job for you.
Care UK currently delivers a Musculoskeletal Clinical Assessment and Treatment Service (MSK CATS) Service across the Lincolnshire Region.
We are an expanding service looking to recruit a part-time or full-time Outpatient MSK Physiotherapist to add to our growing team, working within any qualified provider (AQP). We are a growing business aiming to deliver excellent care and support for our clients whilst exploring opportunities for growth and development.
You'll be part of a dedicated MSK physiotherapy team working across multiple sites within existing health centres and hospitals.
We currently cover:
• Lincoln
• Gainsborough
• Stickney
• Mablethorpe
We are able to offer you work in the clinic that is closer to you, however as we share the clinics between our clinicians there is a requirement to be flexible to travel between the clinics. If you do have to travel further afield, we pay for your mileage.
Within this job you will be responsible for:
• Assessing patients with diverse presentations and complex MSK conditions
• Developing, planning and delivering effective individualised treatment programmes to patients
• Ensuring you continually evaluate patient progress and reassessing/altering their treatment where necessary.
About Care UK
Care UK was founded in 1982. Today our healthcare services include treatment centres, prison health services, GP practices, NHS walk-in centres, GP out-of-hours and clinical assessment and diagnostics facilities. This means that we provide a greater range of specialist care services than any other organisation in the UK.
Care UK is the largest independent provider of urgent care services in England incorporating OOH's, single point of access and referral management. We deliver excellent, high value patient care on behalf of the NHS for over eight million patients across England.
We work with the NHS to deliver high quality healthcare services, reducing waiting times and giving the patient a greater level of choice. We also take healthcare services closer to where people live and work – increasing the efficiency and quality of the services we deliver and helping to reduce waiting times.
For more information, please visit our website: http://careukhealthcare.com
The Requirements
In order for you to be considered for the job, as a minimum we are looking for you to:
• Be a qualified Physiotherapist with valid HCPC pin number.
• Have experience at working at a Band 6 level or equivalent
• Have experience of working within an outpatient MSK setting
• Have excellent knowledge of physiotherapy in MSK conditions
• Have a full UK Driving License and access to your own transport
It would be nice for you to have any one of the below, although these are not essential:
• Acupuncture training
• MSK postgraduate qualification
Application Process
Once you have pressed apply to this job, you will be contacted within 72 working hours by Ben or Lisa who sit within our recruitment team by phone or email.
If you have been shortlisted, the recruiter will submit your CV to the hiring manager who will in turn arrange an interview with you if they feel that you are suitable for the job.
Additional Information
If you would like to talk to one of our friendly recruiters for further information or for a full, comprehensive job description, please contact Ben Averill, ben.averill@careuk.com / 07435 974918 or Lisa Dyson, lisa.dyson@careuk.com / 07580 017274
Please note that offers of employment are subject to receipt of satisfactory references and a DBS check.
Care UK is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
This is a full-time or part-time permanent job running up to 37.5 hours per week on a rota basis. Our clinics operate Monday to Friday.
We can offer you:
• A salary up to £30,000 per annum dependent on experience
• Paid mileage to clinics that aren’t your main base/s
• 25 days annual leave + 8 public holidays (pro rata for part time)
• Contributory pension scheme (2-5%)
• Regional/National opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme
• Childcare vouchers and online discounts
We pride ourselves on the training packages we can offer and we're keen to promote each clinicians individual development, so in order to support you in this job, we will:
• Give you the rare opportunity to work and liaise with spinal/orthopaedic consultants and Extended Scope Practitioners (ESP's).
• Offer you supervision with physiotherapy and ESP colleagues.
• Give you CPD (including free online and face-to-face training and internal/external courses)
Company
At Care UK, we treat everyone as individuals so they can live fulfilling, rewarding and happy lives and we recognise that taking the first step on the journey into care can be daunting.
We are proud to be the most awarded care home provider for the last three years, and we have more outstanding rated homes than any other provider. Independence is not about where you live, but how you live, so if you’re considering care for yourself or a loved one, discover why we’ve been trusted to care for over 40 years.
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