Senior Physiotherapist – Wards and Community

at  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Physiotherapist B and 6 - 28 hours per week
Are you an enthusiastic Physiotherapist who would like a Band 6 post within a friendly team? Would you enjoy the challenge of a varied caseload in the community, wards and clinic setting providing rehabilitation for Older Adults?
The successful candidate will have good knowledge, good time management skills and be computer literate. You will bring energy and creativity to trust wide initiatives such as the A geing W ell agenda and implementing relevant NICE guidance.
Are you familiar with Windsor and Maidenhead?
Maidenhead is a Thameside town with small shops and a pedestrianised High Street, a multiplex cinema, health club and 2 Michelin star restaurants. It has excellent motoring links being close to the M4, M40 and A4. Windsor ’s town centre offers an attractive mix of quaint old streets below the castle and smart new shops from old family businesses to chain stores. Windsor also has the stunning rural countryside of 4,800 acres of Windsor Great Park , g reat travel links to the M4, M25, M40 and M3 and is just a short trip from Heathrow international airport and central London.
The service hours are 8am – 4pm.
Clinically you will be working with rehabilitation, medical, palliative, and neurological patients.
Provide a high standard of physiotherapy for adults living within East of Berkshire
Accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care, ensuring a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management
Responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical and management priorities and use of time
Undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies; use clinical reasoning and analytical skills and manual assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition
Formulate and deliver an individual physiotherapy management and treatment programme based on a sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and treatment options using clinical assessment, reasoning skills, treatment skills e.g. manual physiotherapy techniques, patient education, exercise classes and other alternative options.
Evaluate patient progress, continually re- assess and alter treatment programmes in order to progress treatments effectively
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Good time management skills
Registered with the HCPC
Ability to travel to multiple sites in an efficient manner
Ability to participate in a 7-day rota.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
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