Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner in Oxford

We are delighted to be recruiting a part-time Advanced Practitioner (AP) (0.6 FTE / 22.5 hours per week) to join our established and experienced team. As an Advanced Practitioner, you will work on-site in GP practices as part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team. You will assess, diagnose, and manage MSK patients at the first point of contact - with full autonomy and clinical support. This is not a hybrid or remote position. You will be embedded in your practice(s), working closely with GPs, receptionists, nurses, and other MDT colleagues to deliver integrated, personalised patient care.

You will have the opportunity to use or develop advanced skills supported by protected CPD time and structured supervision. Are you ready to transform MSK care at the frontline of Primary Care?

Main duties of the job:

• Assess, diagnose, triage, and manage MSK patients at first contact, taking responsibility for a complex caseload.
• Request and interpret investigations such as X-rays and blood tests, and make appropriate referrals to support diagnosis and treatment.
• Use advanced skills including independent prescribing and injection therapy to deliver comprehensive MSK care.
• Work with Primary Care Networks and GP practices to develop and deliver specialist MSK pathways and support appropriate triage before secondary care referral.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments for patients with chronic pain, persistent symptoms, and multipathology presentations using advanced clinical reasoning and investigation skills.
• Provide accurate diagnoses and formulate tailored treatment plans for complex MSK conditions using highly developed manual and clinical assessment skills.
• Collaborate with community teams, orthopaedics, and pain services to support integrated care pathways.
• Manage patients with psychosocial or mental health needs, using social prescribing where appropriate.
• Deliver supported self-management programmes that promote behavioural change, physical activity, independence, and reduced reliance on medication.
• Provide personalised, holistic care that considers overall health, wellbeing, function, mobility, and employment needs.
• Support patients to set meaningful goals and build confidence in self-management.

About us:

We are a non-bureaucratic, non-hierarchical, can-do, positive, and supportive team to work with who is incredibly passionate about providing excellent primary care first contact MSK services. We pride ourselves on providing you with unrivalled day-to-day peer support, CPD, and training opportunities. Each team member gets 4 hours of protected supervision and CPD time per week (equivalent to 27 days per year!!), including a weekly 1-2-1 with an HEE-approved FCP Supervisor.

We support our team members through the Roadmap via all routes - including the HEI taught route, HEI supported portfolio route, and the current independent portfolio verification process. We fully fund external level 7 MSc courses such as Injection Therapy and Non-Medical Prescribing.

Job responsibilities:

• Assess, diagnose, triage, and manage patients, taking responsibility for the management of a complex caseload.
• Develop and make use of your full scope of clinical practice, including skills relating to independent prescribing, injection therapy and investigation when trained to do so.
• Manage complex interactions, including working with patients with psychosocial and mental health needs, referring to social prescribing when appropriate.
• Deliver programmes of supported patient self-management, in ways that facilitate behavioural change, optimise individuals' physical activity, mobility, fulfilment of personal goals and independence, and that minimise the need for pharmacological interventions.
• Provide care that is tailored to the individual needs.
• Support patients to set their own goals and be confident in their approach to self-management.

Evidence, Research, and Development:

• Collect, analyse and present data on patient case mix, produce information on patients needing specialist care, metrics of interventions such as auditing Injection therapy, use of prescribing, conversion of secondary care referrals.
• Participate in ongoing service improvement, evaluation and audit of interventions, outcomes as appropriate to context and management.
• Develop relationships and a collaborative working approach across the PCN supporting the integration of pathways in primary care.
• Support research and audit programmes to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of our FCP service.

Leadership:

• Lead, manage and contribute to service delivery.
• Implement all aspects of effective clinical governance for own practice, including undertaking regular audit and evaluation, supervision and training.
• Communicate effectively and appropriately, with patients and carers, complex and sensitive information regarding diagnosis, pathology, prognosis and treatment choices supporting personalised care.

Facilitating learning:

• Provide feedback and support to other PCN clinical team members on appropriate referral criteria.
• Critically reflect on own practice, and continue to develop your skills.
• Support FCP colleagues in line with Health Education England's First Contact Practitioners and Advanced Practitioners in Primary Care: (Musculoskeletal). A Roadmap to Practice.

Key skills and attributes:

• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Strong clinical problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to work cohesively with a wider team.
• Involve patients in decision making and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance.

Experience, knowledge and qualifications:

• Fully HCPC and CSP registered practicing Physiotherapist.
• An up-to-date CPD portfolio demonstrating that you have knowledge of the musculoskeletal core capabilities framework for first point of contact practitioners and the four pillars of advanced practice.
• Extensive clinical experience of delivering musculoskeletal assessment and treatment which should be at a Band 8a + level.
• Completion of an appropriate level 7 MSc in Advanced Physiotherapy Practice.
• Completion of M-level post-graduate Soft Tissue and Joint Injection Therapy course.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.