First Contact Practitioner (Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner)

• Attend and feed back to the PCN at meetings as directed by the PCN board. • Promote the FCP service both locally and nationally • Be a point of contact for PCN staff for MSK related issues and MSK training. • Continually audit their service to ensure best practice • Provide musculoskeletal assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients presenting to the GP practice as a first point of contact. • To act as a source of expertise on the management of complex and general musculoskeletal patients providing an advisory service to patients, relatives, physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals and medical staff. • To take a major role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have complex and or chronic presentation, and to determine clinical diagnosis and physiotherapy treatment indicated. • To maintain records as an autonomous practitioner. • To undertake a role in the planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluation of the FCP service provided to the patients within the PCN on a day-to-day basis. • To educate and train other health professionals, medical staff and students in the management of musculoskeletal conditions. • To determine clinical diagnosis and treatment indicated for patients who would normally be seen by a GP. Job description Job responsibilities • Attend and feed back to the PCN at meetings as directed by the PCN board. • Promote the FCP service both locally and nationally • Be a point of contact for PCN staff for MSK related issues and MSK training. • Continually audit their service to ensure best practice • Provide musculoskeletal assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients presenting to the GP practice as a first point of contact. • To act as a source of expertise on the management of complex and general musculoskeletal patients providing an advisory service to patients, relatives, physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals and medical staff. • To take a major role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have complex and or chronic presentation, and to determine clinical diagnosis and physiotherapy treatment indicated. • To maintain records as an autonomous practitioner. • To undertake a role in the planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluation of the FCP service provided to the patients within the PCN on a day-to-day basis. • To educate and train other health professionals, medical staff and students in the management of musculoskeletal conditions. • To determine clinical diagnosis and treatment indicated for patients who would normally be seen by a GP.