Great news that the HEE Roadmap to Practice for First Contact Practitioners and Advanced Practitioners in Primary Care (Musculoskeletal) was published on 15 October! The Roadmap is available through the HEE website and provides a clear educational pathway from undergraduate to advanced practice for clinicians wishing to pursue a career in MSK primary care.
SOMM is delighted to be one of the organisations running courses to train supervisors to take clinicians through the portfolio route described in the Roadmap.
Supervisors need to be:
- Working in MSK as an Advanced Practitioner with a postgraduate Master’s degree;
- In a current team lead post in MSK and hold a postgraduate Master’s degree in MSK; or
- Working as a Consultant Physiotherapist working in MSK
The courses will be able to take a maximum of 14 places and are open to a maximum of 2 supervisors per Trust/CCG.…
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by Sue Brown, CEO ARMA
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