Walsall West One PCN has a full-time vacancy for a First Contact Physiotherapist. This will be a fixed-term contract for 12 months. The postholder will join our existing Physiotherapists who provide exceptional clinical care to patients. The postholder will be part of the team, providing focussed care in areas including learning disabilities, care homes and mental health alongside our multi-disciplinary workforce. The post holder will be passionate about patient care and working across PCN Practices in the Walsall PCN, you will be enthusiastic and innovative in the way care is delivered.
This job is suitable for individuals who want to benefit from a tailored development pathway of clinical support and supervision, and benefit from the experience of our existing Physiotherapists who are committed to make real changes to the health care services provided within Primary Care to improve patient care.
As an employee with us you can benefit from:
Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme
Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata
Employee discounts and benefits scheme
Employee assistance programme (EAP)
Education and career pathways
Enhanced Family friendly policies
Flexible working
Wellbeing support and initiative
If you are interested in learning more, please read on.
The role is a patient centred role that requires qualified and dedicated Physiotherapists to work as part of a multidisciplinary clinical team to participate in all treatment and preventative healthcare services in the practice as delegated and agreed by supervising clinician(s).
The postholder will need to confidently evidence key skills such as excellent verbal and written communication skills, substantial experience working as a Physiotherapist role in which clinical skills formed part of their role in primary care or similar. Working collaboratively with local divisions (including Divisional Boards) and the wider clinical team is essential to promote and deliver innovative ways of working to meet the strategic aims of the organisation.
The role is not a regular Physiotherapist position where decisions made are purely for the practice; the Physiotherapist role for Modality requires innovation, flexibility, and commitment and the postholder will be required to work resourcefully as part of the wider team and will help to deliver dedicated care and support for the patients of the wider Walsall division.
Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.
You will love this job if you have a passion for contributing to the clinical development of primary care by developing a special interest and using the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, you will implement improvements where required. You will be part of the Walsall Division where you will be part of multidisciplinary team of clinical members who will provide support where it is needed. You will input to, and work on key decisions that shape the way in which we deliver patient care, and influence service improvement.
If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.
Please Note: The Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time during the advertising period.
Pre-employment
Vaccinations
As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.
Right to work checks
All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.
References
References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.
Employment history
You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.