Interview questions

Question 1

Tell me about yourself

Answer 1

I am a very motivated and conscientious person who is passionate about Physiotherapy and improving the health and wellbeing of my patients. I am always trying to be the best version of myself, I reflect a lot and read up on anything I do not understand.

Question 2

Where do you see yourself in 5 Years?

Answer 2

I see myself specialising in MSK as a Band 6 practitioner. Then to go for a team leader position. I aim to have done a masters by then in order to learn more about physiotherapy. I am also wanting to become qualified in acupuncture, but first I am still reading about it and the evidence around it.

Question 3

What is your greatest weakness?

Answer 3

I am a great reflector
I found that following my placements I would reflect too much and think about about my patients, this would cause me to have less time to relax. However, I am aware of this and I have started to set myself time aside in an evening to reflect on a patient or a situation which occurred, read up or research anything I need to. I also have a reflective journal which helps.

Question 4

What is your greatest strength?

Answer 4

I am good at working in adapting situations. I can work in both a team environment and independently.
I also am very motivated.
I have very good time management which I believe would assist me in a fast pace environment such as MSK. I have experience of this from my placements

Question 5

Why should we hire you?

Answer 5

I have a real passion for MSK, it is after all what inspired me to be a physiotherapist

Put patient care at the heart of the work you do to improve health care outcomes and service delivery
Deliver the highest standards and quality outcomes possible
Be the best you can be, always look for ways to improve Encourage others to develop themselves and the service through improvement,
innovation and continuous development
Build positive working relationships, respecting and valuing others, being helpful and inclusive

Question 6

What is your greatest accomplishment?

Answer 6

My biggest accomplishment is

Question 7

Do you have any questions?

Answer 7

What is your critical appraisal time?

Question 8

What are the Trust Values?

Answer 8

Courage 
Ambitious
Responsive 
Empowering
Supportive

Question 9

Values

Answer 9

safe, healthy and fair working environment and to providing staff with opportunities to maximise their contribution through involvement and professional development.

Question 10

Cauda Equina

Answer 10

-Loss of feeling/pins and needles between the inner thighs or genitals
• Numbness in or around the back passage or buttocks
• Altered feeling when using toilet paper to wipe
• Increasing difficulty in urinating
• Increasing difficulty controlling flow or stopping urinating
• Loss of sensation when passing urine
• Leaking urine and a recent need to use pads
• Not knowing when bladder is full or empty
• Inability to stop bowel movement or leaking
• Change in ability to achieve and erection or ejaculate
• Loss of genital sensation during intercourse

Question 11

Cancer

Answer 11

Age >60 with new onset severe pain
 Persistent non-mechanical pain
 Mechanical symptoms non-responsive to appropriate management over a reasonable time scale
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 Recent unexplained weight loss (4.5kg or more)
 Unwell/fever/night sweats

Question 12

Knee trauma

Answer 12

If there is one or more of the following
• Inability to bear weight (walk 4 steps) immediately after injury or when examined
• Person age 55 or more
• Tenderness at head of fibula
• Isolated tenderness of the patella
• Inability to flex knee beyond 90 degrees

Question 13

Ankle trauma

Answer 13

If there is pain in the malleolar zone and one or more of the following
• Inability to bear weight (walk 4 steps) immediately after injury or when examined
• Bone tenderness along the distal 6 cm of the posterior edge of the fibula or tip of the lateral malleolus
• Bone tenderness along the distal 6cm of the posterior edge of the tibia or tip of the medial malleolus

Question 14

Foot trauma

Answer 14

Pain in the mid foot and one or more of the following
• Inability to bear weight (walk 4 steps) immediately after injury or when examined
• Bone tenderness at the base of the 5th metatarsal Bone tenderness of the navicular bone

Question 15

Wrist trauma

Answer 15

Pain or tenderness over the scaphoid bone (tenderness at the base of the anatomical snuff box)

Question 16

Arthritis

Answer 16

is 45 or over and
has activity-related joint pain and
has either no morning joint-related stiffness or morning stiffness that lasts no longer than 30 minutes. [new 2014]