APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

Our delivery model is formed around a shared vision and innovative use of the wealth and diversity of both the clinical and managerial experience that the partnership brings and as such it will provide a truly holistic, person-centred service that no one partner could provide on its own.
The model focuses on care being provided through distributed clinical leadership using Primary Care Networks (networks of GP practices working together with combined practice populations of around 50,000); integrated community bedded services and specialist services with the development of pathways into and out of the acute trust.
To provide a high quality physiotherapy intervention to patients in a wide range of specialties via a four monthly rotational scheme whilst consolidating and further developing skills and knowledge learned throughout degree course.
To assess and implement treatment programmes as an autonomous practitioner.
To work unsupervised reporting back and receiving guidance and teaching from the senior physiotherapists on a daily basis.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• To assess, diagnose, plan and deliver treatment programme to
• To carry and prioritise own caseload and delegate appropriate work to
• To demonstrate the ability to carry out physiotherapy assessments and interventions including manual techniques and therapeutic handling in a competent
• To communicate effectively and sensitively condition related information with patients, carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team to gain consent to treatment and to inform/agree expected goals. This will at times include patients with barriers to understanding or communication, eg blind, deaf, dysphasic, children or people who do not have English as a first language.
• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings as the physiotherapy representative for individual patients and participate in the clinical decision making process at these
• Make accurate and complete treatment records of work undertaken and keep monthly statistics in line with CSP and physiotherapy service
• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your own professional and clinical
• To be responsible for assessing and managing clinical risk in relation to your own caseload, seeking guidance and help from senior therapists as
• To contribute to development of patient care by attending relevant team, departmental or other appropriate meetings and comment on recommended changes to clinical care or service provision.
• To take part in the Emergency OnCall and Weekend respiratory physiotherapy