Job overview

Would you like to be part of an exciting new integrated service ?

Are you an eager and enthusiastic clinician looking for a new challenge? Then we have the perfect opportunity for you.

The Musculoskeletal Service Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin brings together partner organisations across the county, including; Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, Shrewsbury & Telford Hospitals and the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, to provide quality care to patients with musculoskeletal concerns within the population of Shropshire. These posts would be suitable for a dynamic individual who is enthusiastic and motivated to continue their professional development. This will be supported through access to a wealth of knowledge and experience in the form of consultants, GP’s with special interest, as well as clinicians with special interests.

Through job plans and CPD programmes as well as opportunities to access apprenticeships and funding, this is the perfect role for clinicians with a vision for enhancing their knowledge and skills in the field of Musculoskeletal disorder management. 

We would welcome conversations from prospective applicants, to fully discuss the wide range of benefits that these job opportunities can bring to reality.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

• To manage, assess and treat own highly specialist caseload of complex musculoskeletal patients in clinic as an autonomous practitioner within scope of the role.
• To triage and assess referrals into the service to determine acuity and urgency, and direct to the appropriate clinical team within the service. 
• The post holder will work as a highly experienced autonomous practitioner to perform advanced assessment including requesting and interpretation of appropriate diagnostics for patients with diverse presentations.
• To use expert clinical reasoning to provide a diagnosis and then develop, deliver and adapt individualised treatment programmes for patients within a specialist clinical area.
• To have developed, through extensive experience and postgraduate training, the expert knowledge and specialist clinical skills to work in an advanced practice role.
• To lead in the development of own expert service introducing innovative change and improvements liaising with the AMD, CSM, assistant CSM and Therapies Lead to ensure a cohesive approach.
• To undertake research and audit projects as a regular part of the role and to critically evaluate current research and apply where appropriate to practice.

Working for our organisation

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.