Physiotherapy; return to practice.

[Dragonbutter]

Anybody any experience of this?

i suppose they are all back at work.

lol I'm a physio too, been out for 4 and a half years now.

There are no bloody jobs to go back to here anyway, even if I wanted to go back (which I don't, yet).

Have you phoned the CSP? I had to come off the HPC list this year as I've been out of practice for 4 years now. That's going to be a whole bloody palarver getting re-registerd.

What sort of physio did you do DragonButter?

wow! i knew there would be at least one mumsnetter.

i've been out of practise for 2.5 years. was senior 2 community before that.
not that it's called senior 2 anymore, band5/6 apparently.

i've emailed the csp but the person in charge of return to practice is out of office until next week.
the CSP website is a bit temperamental, but i've just managed to read the HPC guidelines on return to practice.

Do i line up a job first? Do i do a bit of work experience and a course or something?

I have to admit i'm really not an overly enthusiastic physiotherapist, but my brain is going to mush and i'm fed up of having no money, so i'm looking at ways of getting back into it.

I like orthopaedics, musculoskeletal, womens health and community. But i'd love to work privately (and flexibly) but am a bit intimidated by the private physios. Lack of confidence from being out of work?

im a nurse and i was out of practice for a year
when i was loking for a new job i asked about the return to pracice
apparently if you are out of work for 3 years you ahve to do a 'return to practice' course and you have to have keep your registratin up to date
this was with the nhs btw

dont know if that helps you or not !

i haven't kept my registration.
no money coming on, so no money going out.
will this go against me?

Dragonbutter - have you thought about working as a women's physio in a BUPA hospital?

A friend of my mother's does this - helping women with their pelvic floors, either after childbirth or later in life or after operations for prolapse. She loves it as it is a very close relationship with patients and they are so delighted with the results.

if a nurse doesnt keep up her registration and she tries to reregister - nurses have to do a certain amount of practice a year - its something like 5 days year (i think) to stay on the register

maybe you could do a return to practice course? your local teaching hospital should do one

why not phone the physio dept at the hospital - they will surely know

i'd love to do womens physio on a private basis. not sure if i'd have to do extra training though. i did it as a junior rotation and loved it.

I don't know about the extra training but I suspect it's something that physios don't normally go into until after childbirth/until later in life, so you can't be the only physio wondering about it as a returnee. Why don't you contact your local BUPA or other private hospital about it.

I think as you have been out for less than 4 (could be 3 though) years you won't have to do a return to practice course. Are there any jobs available where you are? If you see one and you like the look of it then phone and chat to the physio manager, you may well find there is some competition for it as so many posts have been frozen, in which case I would try and do a w/e course to make yourself look keen .

There is nothing here, nothing. I have a good friend who is a physio at the local hospital and there have been no jobs advertised for well over a year. If someone leaves, the post is frozen.

tbh going back to the NHS gives me the willies, that is partly because I am also suffering from serious mushy brain, but also because of the 'system' I would be heading back into.

DH works for the NHS and he is a haggared man

I did some private work BC and I really think you have to be on the ball with current techniques to charge people (imo). You can do it, but would probably need to do plenty of update courses (electrotherapy, strapping, manual therapy etc) before going into private work.

My friend is a womens health physio. She goes on regular w/e courses. The most recent one they all had to do internal examinations on each other. Now I'm no prude but I was rather when she told me.

She has applied to one on rectal incontinence, also contains a practical element...

yes, NHS gives me the willies too. (your words not mine). The physiotherapy manager was less than helpful when i wanted to return after maternity leave, only offering me my old job back full time with on-call. I'm not so keen in asking them.

i've found a job a short drive away doing community maternity leave cover. might give the manager a call and see if they'd be interested in a return to practise type.
fixed term contract might be a good way of me figuring out what i want but without letting anyone down if it doesn't work out.

yes, y'know the internal examination part put me off BC. 2 kids later, i'm really not that bothered.

When my mother had a prolapse op last year, the physio and nurses were all well into their 40s. My mother is 70 and wouldn't have felt comfortable with a young and/or childless physio.

Internals are just going to be a part of women's physio and you had better not be remotely fazed by them. That may well put some people off - so less competition . Go for it.

Oh the maternity cover job sounds good. I'd give them a call.

I don't think I'd have problems giving internals, but receiving several of them in one day, hmmmm

And being a PR exam model. Oh that is absolutely a big NO!

i have no shame do i
but somebody has to do it don't they?

My mother's friend who works in women's physio is hilarious - whenever she meets women for the first time (think cocktail parties at Christmas time) she inevitably brings them round to talking about their pelvic floors and advising them on the best exercises and the reasons to do them NOW .

right. baby asleep. toddler plied with bread and chocolate spread watching cbeebies. i'll make that call.

Dragonbutter, as Anna says if you have no problem with it then go for it . I am completely unfazed by sputum (oh I loved ITU) but I know that is not everyone's cup of tea.

Anna my friend is the same! After going round for a cup of tea I invariably come back chastised and resolved to restart my pelvic floor exs.

oh no, i don't do sputum. retch.

LOL at pelvic floor evangelism. But I think it's wonderful when people really believe in the good that their work is doing.

Reregistering with the HPC

Our requirements
In order to return to the Register, health professionals will need to meet the following requirements, depending on how long they have been out of practice:

0-2 years - no requirements
2-5 years - 30 days of updating their skills and knowledge
5 years or over - 60 days of updating their skills and knowledge
These requirements also apply to someone who has never been registered with us and who has never practised (or who has not practised in the last two years) but who holds an approved qualification which is over five years old.

so i spoke to the manager in charge of the maternity cover post. she said i'd need to apply to the HPC for reregistration which looks like i'll need to do 30 days of updating before i could start.
yuck.
fitting that around the children means it will take a while doesn't it.
and i presume it will be unpaid work experience, so i'll need to fork out for childcare.
yuck yuck yuck.

and now i've spoken to the physiotherapy manager at the big hospital where i did my junior rotations.
she's never done a return to practise and has never even been asked for it.
she was very negative and questioned whether 30 days of updating would make me competent or employable.
she was horrid and i put the phone down and cried.
fuck.
what a horrible cow.

i didn't hang up, just cried once i got off the phone. just incase that read wrong.