First Contact Physiotherapist hub

Support for every stage of your FCP career

Welcome to the hub: a one-stop shop for new and experienced First Contact Physiotherapists.

Explore learning opportunities and resources to support your professional development and guide your career within general practice.

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Your development journey

Where would you like to start?

Choose the route that best matches what you need today.

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Start confidently

Understand Primary Care, the wider team and the support available as you settle into your role.

Primary Care in Practice

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Fund your development

Find CPD funding information and move quickly from identifying a need to booking training.

Funding and training

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Learn and connect

Access FCP learning, mandatory training, professional networks and peer support.

Learning and networks

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Lead and progress

Develop your leadership capability and find resources that support advanced and effective practice.

Leadership and resources

Start confidently

Primary Care in Practice

We understand that starting out in independent practice can be daunting, and there may be other non-clinical skills that you wish to explore and develop to enhance your experience and confidence.

We want to help you feel prepared and confident while learning alongside your new colleagues and peers. That is why we are excited to offer a free learning programme open to the wider Primary Care Workforce, organised by Coventry and Warwickshire Training Hub and hosted by local GPs.

Sessions are delivered through a combination of virtual and face-to-face learning.

Register your interest
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Topics include

  • What support is available to those working within Primary Care?
  • What is Primary Care?
  • Leadership structure within Primary Care
  • The different roles and responsibilities within Primary Care
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Support in your role

Practical and personal support

Support should be easy to find before a challenge becomes a barrier. Choose the route that is most relevant to you.

General Practice Mentoring Scheme

Mentoring is the opportunity to have comfortable guided conversations with someone who understands your role in General Practice and can share ideas, knowledge and experiences.

A Mentor can support with a range of areas, such as appraisals, career development, complaints, leadership, partnership, parental leave, career break or return to work and retirement.

Visit the Mentoring page

Your Health and Wellbeing

We understand how busy and challenging working in healthcare can be. That is why recharging your batteries is so important.

The Training Hub offers a wide variety of resources and programmes to support your wellbeing.

  • Work Well Programme – Shapes Toolkit
  • Employee Assistance Programme – Vivup
  • Wellbeing Sessions with MIND
  • Health and Wellbeing Champions
  • And more
View wellbeing support

Fund your development

CPD funding and upcoming training

Move from identifying your development need to finding the right support and taking action.

Continuing Professional Development funding

Funding has been made available to support Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), Nurses and Nursing Associates working in Primary Care across Coventry and Warwickshire. This funding is intended to help you build upon existing skills that are vital to the services and communities we support.

Funding Allocation

Each eligible member of staff can access up to £235 towards their professional development. The allocation belongs to the eligible individual. For example, a practice or PCN with 10 eligible members of staff has 10 separate allocations of up to £235 per person.

How to access CPD funding

Find your next course

Browse upcoming training and education opportunities for First Contact Physiotherapists and the wider Primary Care workforce.

Use the Training Hub calendar to find current dates, course information and booking links. You can also view the full training offer when no role-specific sessions are currently listed.

  • Role-specific clinical learning
  • Leadership and professional development
  • Wider Primary Care training
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Learn and connect

Learning opportunities and peer networks

Build clinical confidence, maintain core requirements and connect with physiotherapy and AHP colleagues.

Clinical learning

Musculoskeletal Primary Care e-learning

The Musculoskeletal Primary Care programme is an accredited online training programme specifically designed to support first contact practitioners in a primary care environment.

Each online session takes around 20 to 30 minutes. You can record your knowledge and progress through self-assessments and completion certificates.

View the programme

Core requirements

Skills for Health

Complete mandatory training on subjects that fall under the UK Core Skills Training Framework. Skills for Health offers e-learning designed to support consistency across the UK health sector.

View subject areas
  • Equality, diversity and human rights
  • Health, safety and welfare
  • NHS conflict resolution
  • Infection prevention and control
  • Safeguarding adults and children
  • Preventing radicalisation
  • Resuscitation
Explore Skills for Health

MSK education

Arthritis UK training and education

Access educational resources, training, clinical assessment guidance and NICE-endorsed support tools to help you treat and manage musculoskeletal conditions.

View professional resources

Professional networks

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

Connect with colleagues through CSP networks and continue your development through the CSP ePortfolio and Learning Hub.

View network contacts
  • First Contact Physiotherapy network – email fcp@csp.org.uk
  • West Midlands Regional Network – contact Mindy Dalloway or Rachael Wadlow
  • iCSP forum – connect with colleagues about all aspects of first contact physiotherapy
Open the CSP Learning Hub

Regional connection

Midlands AHP network

Stay up to date with AHP news, opportunities and examples of good practice from across the Midlands.

Visit NHS England Midlands

National collaboration

AHP Virtual Hub

Join the AHP Virtual Hub on Futures – a collaborative workspace where you can connect with peers, share resources and find information for the wider AHP community.

If you do not already have access, create a Futures account using your work email address.

Open the AHP Virtual Hub

Lead and progress

Leadership development

Choose a development route that matches the change you want to lead, the service you want to improve or the next step in your career.

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MSK Champions Programme

This fully funded programme supports participants to develop personal leadership skills and initiate a service improvement project with a local or national focus.

Explore Arthritis UK programmes

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CSP Leadership Development Programme

This interactive modular programme includes online tuition, action learning sets, group discussion, workshops and other supported learning.

View the CSP programme

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Midlands Leadership Academy

The academy offers development programmes, masterclasses, workshops, resources and tools to support health and care leaders across the Midlands.

Explore leadership support

Essential resources

Tools for clinical practice and professional development

The most useful resources are grouped by purpose so you can find what you need without searching through a long list.

Clinical practice

Knowledge and Library Services

Search evidence, journals and clinical information through NHS Knowledge and Library Services.

Physical activity training and resources

Resources and training to help make conversations about movement and physical activity part of routine consultations and treatment plans.

Decision support tools

Evidence-based patient decision aids to support shared decision making about treatment, care and support options.

CKS and NICE clinical knowledge summaries

Accessible summaries of current evidence and practical guidance on best practice.

Your role and scope

Primary Care New Roles resource

A national learning resource explaining new roles in Primary Care and how they work within multidisciplinary teams.

Professional role videos

Short videos showing how professional roles fit within practices and Primary Care Networks to deliver personalised care.

MSK core capabilities framework

The minimum standards for first point of contact practitioners, supporting a skilled and well-integrated multidisciplinary workforce.

Advanced Practice and AHP guidance

Guidance, frameworks and resources supporting AHP practice, career development and advanced clinical practice.

Wider health and care

All Our Health

Learning to help health professionals make a greater impact in preventing illness, protecting health and promoting wellbeing.

Mental health crisis conversations

Young people share how professionals can approach compassionate and supportive mental health crisis conversations.

Long COVID e-learning

An introduction to long COVID and post-COVID-19 syndrome.

NHS England AHP resources

National information on Allied Health Professions, AHP roles in Primary Care and professional resources.

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Need help choosing your next step?

Talk to the Training Hub

Whether you are new to Primary Care, looking for development funding or trying to find the right learning opportunity, contact us and we will help you find the most relevant route.

Email cw.traininghub@nhs.net
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