Are you a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered Physiotherapist or about to be registered?
Are you interested in personal and professional development in Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapy?
NHS Fife MSK Physiotherapy Service could be the place for you. We currently seek physiotherapists like you to come to Fife to join our team.
Your clinical caseload will be varied, ranging from MSK orthopaedic post operative patients, Minor Injuries Unit and Emergency Department (ED) referrals to the MSK management of patients with longer term rehabilitation needs. There are opportunities for you to grow and develop along a number of career pathways from your Band 5 starting point. Right from the start, we support and develop you with the needs of the Service and your own career goals in mind. We encourage learning alongside the four pillars of practice with roles in education, research, clinical and service leadership.
You will have a mentor and a supervisor and easy access to a wide range of senior clinicians and leaders who will listen to your ideas as well as share their planning whilst continuing to nurture your development. Clinical and non clinical time is generously balanced.
We have progressive Band 6 clinical posts in MSK and rehabilitation and also roles working alongside ED, Minor Injuries Unit and orthopaedics clinics. We encourage exposure to clinical areas in preparation for your further career aspirations and have pathways to orthopaedics, GP and MSK Band 7 and 8 clinical and leadership positions. We have a specific Education Physiotherapy Lead and are looking at other expansive roles in health promotion, e health and recruitment.
We work closely with wider Physiotherapy colleagues, Allied Health Professionals, other health care teams, social care and the third sector to provide excellent care to the people of Fife. You will have the opportunity to experience acute service roles, primary care and service development opportunities. We have service bases in the acute hospitals, GP practices and exploring third sector buildings such as within Fife Leisure.
Flexibility in outlook and mindset to travel around the Fife area is required depending on the need. Roles will be solely within the MSK speciality. If you have a passion for MSK or think it may be growing on you, if you have done MSK in the past and wish to return or if you see MSK as a springboard to your further development then we are keen to speak to you.
Musculoskeletal experience at undergraduate level is great, as is any experience post graduate in MSK or wider physiotherapy. What we seek is your motivation, commitment, willingness to learn and be an active part of the team. An architect for the future.
Fife provides a unique location to live and work, sitting between the two major cities of Edinburgh and Dundee, with access to beautiful countryside and coastline locally. The Highlands and the majority of the countries’ population are within an hour and a half drive from central Fife.
Informal Enquiries: Mr. Mark Fargie, Operational Lead MSK Physiotherapist, NHS Fife, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline on: 01383 623623 Ext: 22248.
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We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
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