Job summary
- Main area
- West Middlesex Hospital
- Grade
- Band 8A
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-HOU-148
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Middlesex Hospital
- Town
- Isleworth
- Salary
- £61,631 - £68,623 per annum inclusive of HCAS (Outer)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/12/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/12/2025
Employer heading
First Contact Practitioner
Band 8A
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
As a first contact physiotherapist and advanced practitioner you will have to opportunity to continue developing your clinical skills for practice. Participation in our in-house development program will also equip you with skills and attributes essential to the rest of your career with support from an MSK and a FCP Consultant. You will be fully integrated into a larger team with a focus on delivering high quality care at the right time and place.
As the successful candidate you will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Strong leadership skills. Good organisation skills: able to plan own work but also work effectively within a team. Ability to prioritise and make sound decisions, sometimes under pressure. You will carry a varied caseload of musculoskeletal complaints with a view to utilise all treatment and care options as appropriate, with the support of a named supervisor.
Main duties of the job
Provide clinical expertise, acting as first-contact physiotherapist and making decisions about the best course of action for patients' care. This will involve seeing patients, without prior contact with their GP, in order to establish a rapid and accurate diagnosis and management plan.
- To work as a Musculoskeletal Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner and First Contact Practitioner in a primary care community setting.
- To provide an expert and highly developed musculoskeletal assessment, diagnosis and appropriate onward management of patients presenting with chronic and acute musculoskeletal problems to the service referred via their GP.
- Triage orthopaedic and rheumatology secondary care referrals independently on electronic referral management systems.
- Make onward appropriate consultant and/or physiotherapy referrals and to discharge patients directly from the clinic
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy
- HCPC registration
- Master’s degree in advanced clinical education, or equivalent level 7 education or training relevant to role
- IMER qualification
- Supervision / Coaching / Mentoring
- Formal management training or willing to undertake training within 6 months
- Completion and recognition gained of Stage 1 of the ‘Road Map to FCP’ as detailed by HEE.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant injection therapy qualification, or willing to undertake training within 6 months
- Relevant prescribing qualification or willing to undertake training within 6 months
- Member of the Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists / Relevant special interest group membership
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience in musculoskeletal speciality of Physiotherapy, including experience at band 7 (ACP) level or equivalent.
- Expert clinical skills in MSK conditions and ability to work outside traditional boundaries
- Collaborative working with a range of multi-agency and inter professional resources
- Ability to influence and enhance patient care in highly complex circumstances and where information on life changing or limiting conditions/impacts are involved
- Evidence of teaching at an advanced level
- Experience of developing and implementing care pathways and protocols, policies and procedures
- Leading new clinical practice and service redesign solutions with a focus on productivity, efficiency and clinical impact
- Continually developing practice in response to changing population health needs, changing commissioner requirements and future developments
- Disseminating best practice research findings and quality improvement projects through appropriate media
- Experience of operational team management
- Facilitating collaborative links between clinical practice and research
- Experience of operational team management
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of publication or ability to write to this standard
- Building capacity and capability through work based and inter-professional learning
- Evaluation, audit and improvement of own and others’ clinical practice
- Experience of managing employee relations issues e.g. disciplinary, grievance
- Experience of investigating complaints and incidents with recommendations for improvement
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Taneesha Dhillon
- Job title
- MSK Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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