PCN First Contact Physiotherapist

1. Take professional responsibility as a first-contact physiotherapist, with high-level decision-making and clinical-reasoning skills to assess, diagnose, triage and refer patients for onward treatment. 2. Support GPs with management of complex caseloads (including patients with long-term conditions, co-morbidities and multi-factorial needs). 3. Contribute to development of service delivery. 4. Accountable for decisions and actions via HCPC registration, supported by a professional culture of peer networking/review and engagement in evidence-based practice. 5. Ensure care is proactive, preventive in focus and population based, with an emphasis on early intervention. 6. Provide care which is tailored to the individual needs. This would include, appraising the impact of individuals' clinical status on their general health, well-being, employment status (including in relation to function, physical activity, mobility and independence). 7. Through patient assessment and working in partnership with patients and their carers, make decisions about the best pathway of care, informed by the urgency and severity of patient need, patient acuity and dependency, and the most appropriate deployment of resources. 8. Support patients to set their own goals and be confident in their approach to self-management. 9. Communicate effectively and appropriately with patients and carers complex and sensitive information regarding diagnosis, pathology and prognosis. 10. Use a range of clinical skills which may include: a. non-medical independent prescribing b. joint / soft tissue injections c. joint aspirations 11. Provide learning opportunities for the whole multi professional team within primary care at network of Practice level. 12. Exercise professional judgement, making, justifying and taking responsibility for decisions in unpredictable situations, including in the context of incomplete/contradictory information. 13. Manage interactions in complex situations, including with individuals with particular psychosocial and mental health needs and with colleagues across the primary care team, sectors and settings.

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