Rasamara
If it helps, when I was in the nhs (happily left last year) we all had the same job title but we all had different qualifications — and all of these were appropriate to allow us to do the job we were employed to do. Whomever did the bookings might know which individual would be assigned to you; whenever I met anyone I told them what version of the possible range I was.
My discipline is different to the OP’s condition — mental health not physical health — but the same principle applies I believe? The cynic in me, however, believes it is part of the process of ‘dumbing down’ the nhs by giving us all generic contracts (and don’t get me started on the constant lowering of pay bands for key team management roles). So I’m a highly experienced, very specialised child & adolescent psychotherapist (also have qualifications for adult work as well) but there I was a generic “mental health worker” and all of us were “clinicians”.
OP you have every right to know who is treating, and should definitely ask, but don’t let it stop you going. Only when you are there will you know if you are being treated by a physio with 20+ years experience or a wet behind the ears, not yet learned bedside manners, junior doctor… and both would be clinicians. Hope your ankle improves soon 🤗
Well that certainly makes it very plain - ie they've deliberately applied a general title and will try and get away with the lowest level possible person that might just be capable of the task in hand.
Though, obviously, there are people of differing skills levels at point on the spectrum - remembering the way there are three levels of people that deal with feet (from beautician level up to podiatrist) and it was a podiatrist that recently made a painful mess of partial nail avulsion (ie removing part of nail - to deal with ingrown toenail) and a lowest level woman subsequently that helped put right that bodge job to some extent.
