Advanced Podiatry Practitioner MSK Advanced Practice Service (MSKAPS)

Go back Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Advanced Podiatry Practitioner MSK Advanced Practice Service (MSKAPS)

The closing date is 29 June 2025

Are you an experienced Advanced Podiatry Practitioner with an MSK specialism?

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic podiatrist with an NHSE AP Digital Badge, or significant experience of working across the four pillars of AP and an ability to undertake the supported e-portfolio route.

This is your opportunity to join a team of physiotherapists, podiatrists and osteopaths working at the interface between core podiatry/physiotherapy and secondary care services, delivering high quality evidence-based care, and helping to drive service development.

Main duties of the job

You will contribute to the remote triage of referrals into the Single Point of Access MSK Specialist Triage Service, as well as being responsible for the management of a complex foot and ankle clinical caseload. This will include clinical assessment, requesting of appropriate diagnostic imaging, treatment (advising/prescribing of medicines and exercise/ injecting/providing orthoses as appropriate) and appropriate onward referral to community and secondary care services.

You will contribute to the wider functioning and development of the team through research, audit, training and education, working across all parts of the Gloucestershire MSK pathway and across professional boundaries. You will support core services, working on integration and clinical development pathways, and you will represent MSKAPS on appropriate MDTs with secondary care teams.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

Participate in the remote triage of referrals to the Single Point of Access MSK Specialist triage Service, directing as appropriate or advising the referrer on the appropriate course of action

Take full responsibility for the management of a complex clinical caseload, providing high quality, evidence based care (including the requesting of diagnostic imaging, independent non-medical prescribing and injection therapy as appropriate)

Promote a culture of learning and development within the team, designing development programmes across the MSK pathway, contributing to the design of training programmes within the service, and assisting with the delivery of training and education across the pathway and professional boundaries

Promote a culture of research within the team and across the MSK pathway, participating in and leading on research and audit, and ensuring that findings are integrated into evidence-based clinical practice

Person Specification Qualifications

• Professional registration with registered body HCPC with significant post-registration experience relevant to role

Qualifications

• MSc Advanced Practice and NHSE Digital Badge or evidence to support Professional clinical knowledge that covers all 4 pillars (as above) of the Advanced Clinical Practice capabilities (including physical assessment and physiological reasoning qualifications at Masters level) and ability to undertake supported e-Portfolio Route to gain NHSE Digital Badge

Qualifications

• Recognised teaching / supervisor or coaching qualification or relevant experience

Qualifications

• Skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice, including injection therapy

Qualifications

• Registered as an independent prescriber with the relevant registered body (NMC, HCPC, GPhC etc)

Qualifications

• Evidence of continuing professional development

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.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust