Overview
Band 6 Physiotherapist – Sheppey Community Hospital
We’re looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our exciting Rapid Response and Intermediate Care Team to assess and treat patients within the local community. The Physiotherapist would be working closely with Physiotherapy colleagues as well as working collaboratively with our Occupational Therapists, Nurses and Support Worker colleagues.
The service operates 7 days a week 8am till 8pm, and so includes weekend and bank holiday working.
The team is headed by the Clinical Service Manager for Swale Rapid Response and Intermediate Care, and has 3x Clinical leads in post for nursing, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy. They provide line management and clinical support to the team.
Main Responsibilities
Within this role, you will:
- Work within Rapid Response and Intermediate Care across the Swale locality
- Complete complex holistic initial assessments with patients with a wide range of physical conditions
- Triage patient referrals from a variety of sources
- Liaise with family members, carers, and wider support services
- Devise and review care plans
- Delegate rehabilitation programmes to support worker colleagues
- Complete follow up visits with patients
- Attend and participate in clinical meetings, team meetings, service development workstreams.
- Provide training and clinical support to colleagues
- Offer and support student placements from local universities
- Supervise and appraise staff within your line management.
Ideal Candidate
This is an opportunity to put your Degree in Physiotherapy and previous work experience to great use. You will have a full driving license with access to a car, you will be motivating, innovative and adaptable, with the ability to work flexibly across specialities as need arises, holding the HCPC (Physiotherapist) registration. With strong communication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach you will ensure delivery of positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey. You will also take an active role in supporting and developing colleagues through sharing of knowledge and experience and within the formal supervision and appraisal processes.
We are also able to support any return to practice therapists, in line with the CSP and HCP return to practice guidance and registration process.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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