Hiring: HCPC-registered Chartered Physiotherapist - Ampthill and Flitwick Therapy Clinic

Physiotherapy Job in Beds and Herts – United Kingdom – MK45 1ED – Physiobob.com

Are you a HCPC-registered Chartered Physiotherapist looking to start or to progress your Private Practice career with a new and exciting opportunity, in an established, friendly and supportive clinic?

You will be based at our highly-regarded practice in the historic town centre of Flitwick, with its local shops, cafes, and station; excellent train and road links to London and surrounded by the beautiful market towns, villages and countryside of Bedfordshire.

We will help you to grow, develop and become the best physio you can be. Supported by our local clinical leads and Group Clinical Directors, you will have the opportunity to identify and achieve your own personal development goals, participating in individually-tailored mentorship and training and regular team CPD sessions, to underpin your chosen career pathway.

You’ll be a dynamic, self-motivated and personable professional, with an enquiring mind, excellent communication skills, and a passion both for musculoskeletal physiotherapy and going the extra mile to help patients to achieve their maximum potential.

Clinically, you’ll enjoy a varied caseload, treating self-paying and insured patients with a mix of injuries and msk conditions or requiring pre or post-operative treatment and rehabilitation. You’ll work with motivated patients and undertake minimal accident or injury claim work. You’ll utilise a full range of ‘hands-on’ and rehabilitation skills, engaging and inspiring your patients as they progress along their journey from pain and disability to achieving or exceeding their goals.

Our clinic, like all those in the Atlas Health Group, is focussed on delivering high-quality care and service excellence, building and nurturing life-long, family group relations, built upon confidence, trust, professionalism and community values.

We’ll support you to build excellent relationships with Consultants, GPs and other health, care and fitness professionals. We’ll also support your enthusiasm for learning, with opportunities to develop your manual therapy or rehabilitation skills; injury prevention; acupuncture; electrical stimulation (NMES) and brace fitting? We’ll also help you to hone your private practice skills with confidence, including patient and caseload management; electronic notes and reports; navigating private referrals and insurers, discussing service or product sales and recommendations.

Ampthill and Flitwick are excellently located, with Centreparcs, Woburn Abbey and Woburn Safari Park all on the doorstep, Luton and the market town of Bedford only 10miles away and Milton Keynes, home of ‘Centre MK’ shopping, Xscape centre; Snozone real snow ski-snowboard; MK Dons stadium and Willen water sports Lake only 15miles away.

With an excellent local reputation, built over many years and with the support and opportunities provided by the whole Group, we can provide you an enjoyable, challenging and inspiring career and a development pathway that is rarely available in private practice.

This role lends itself to either self-employment or employment (depending on circumstances) with a competitive remuneration and benefits package including pension, paid holiday, sick pay etc.

Please contact Ben Adams, Clinical Director for a no obligation conversation, or a chat over a coffee. We’d love to have you join our team!

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Back Pain

Nearly two thirds of the population of the UK have experienced back pain which affects their ability to carry out daily tasks such as lifting or bending. 2.5 million people suffer back pain every day of the week. More working days are lost in this country through back pain than for any other reason.

Sources of the problem

It is not surprising that our backs cause most of the problems. Muscles in the back come into play during almost all movements we make, working against gravity to move us in the way we want to move. Back problems can be caused by acute and specific causes such as a fall or a road accident, but are more commonly caused by a gradual build-up of symptoms which increase over time. There is generally a fundamental difference in the treatment of back pain caused by injury than that caused by a condition such as rheumatoid arthritis or Ankylosing spondylitis.

How it can be treated, and what to expect at the physiotherapy clinic

Although there are a range of measures you can take to prevent back pain and to ease the symptoms, the Chartered Physiotherapist’s extensive training in anatomy and physiology means we are all experts in helping you understand what’s gone wrong, and how best to treat it. The most common causes of chronic pain are muscular or involve ligaments, joints, a trapped nerve or a disc. When you visit the Physiotherapist, they will carry out an extensive assessment before commencing treatment. This will include a discussion about your work, your leisure activities, and other aspects which could have caused the pain. You can expect a treatment which does not involve drugs, injections or complex machinery. Physiotherapy is still largely a hand-on profession. We will look at mobilisation of the joints of the spine, to see whether this causes or relieves the pain.

Massage helps to relieve spasm, increase circulation to the injured areas and help speed up the healing process. To some extent it is also down to you, you will be asked to carry out specific exercises to strengthen muscles and improve muscle support. Pilates exercises are effective in toning up your deep stomach muscles. Our physiotherapists are trained in Pilates and can give you individual advice and exercises.

Prevention methods

Don’t bend over for long periods of time, or bend when you could kneel or squat

Always warm up before you do any sport or exercise

Take time to improve your muscle tone, contract your stomach muscles for a few minutes each day

Always gently stretch backwards when you stand after having been bent over for some time

Whenever you sit, keep an eye on your posture to ensure your back is straight. Adjust your chair if necessary If lifting heavy or awkward objects, do bend your knees, not your back

Above all, call us! Whether it is to discuss your symptoms, or to discuss various aspects of your treatment, we will be happy to help.

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Back Pain