Physiotherapist

Job overview

CLCH BRENT RAPID RESPONSE - SENIOR PHYSIOTHERAPIST

We are seeking an enthusiastic Specialist Physiotherapist to join our Unplanned Care team based at Sudbury Primary Care at Wembley, London delivering care to patients closer to home and preventing unnecessary hospital admission in Brent.

This role will primarily work under the Rapid Response pathway, but may require the candidate to work across the other pathways when required.

All pathways deliver nursing and therapy care in a patient’s usual home environment.

Main duties of the job

RR focuses on preventing avoidable hospital admissions for patients with acute ill-health conditions by providing holistic assessment within 2 hours of referral and treatments over a 5 day pathway.

The pathway is delivered in conjunction with Adult Social Care to support the patient’s reablement.

The Unplanned Care team works in an integrated way with the other community providers in Brent to ensure holistic support is provided.

Working for our organisation

Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
• Flexible working options
• Annual travel card loan
• Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

• The successful candidate needs to be a registered Physiotherapist, ideally with advanced clinical skills, significant knowledge and experience in the clinical care of adults and older people in a range of healthcare settings.
• Candidates should be self-motivated with strong organisational skills and able to make clinical decisions autonomously as required.
• As a clinician you will use your clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making to support patients at home, improve patient outcomes and reduce likelihood of unnecessary admissions to hospital.
• You will be required to complete holistic assessments, giving appropriate interventions as required and have knowledge of community services to plan the on-going care of patients.

Please refer to Job description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

• Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy
• Current HCPC registration
• Evidence of up to date CPD portfolio
• Involvement in Appraisal Scheme
• Attendance at specialist short courses or equivalent CPD activities within the specialist areas of Adult Rehabilitation, Neurology, Orthopaedics, Musculoskeletal Outpatients, Older People , Rehabilitation
• Member of Professional Body

• Member of a Special Interest Group relevant to this post

Experience

• Experience post registration as a Band 5 physiotherapist
• Experience working at a Junior level in a wide range of specialised clinical areas including outpatients, neurology, rehabilitation, orthopedics and respiratory

• Experience working with voluntary organisations.
• Experience in service development projects

Skills and Knowledge

• Skills in the assessment and treatment of adults with complex multi-pathologies
• Knowledge and understanding of complex medical conditions including multipathologies and falls Knowledge of role of Allied Health Professionals and interdisciplinary team working
• Ability to apply core Physiotherapy skills across a range of clinical conditions within a client centered, goal setting
• Knowledge of outcome measures and evidence-based practice
• Ability to problem solve, prioritise and demonstrate clinical reasoning
• Good communication and report writing skills, in both verbal and written format
• Basic IT skills – Microsoft Word, Power point, Excel
• Teaching of junior staff / students, peers in Inservice training setting
• Knowledge and understanding of the role of Social Services and voluntary agencies

• Supervision of assistant / junior staff
• Supervision of Students
• Knowledge and experience in research and audit
• Knowledge and understanding of National Service Framework for Older People
• Knowledge and understanding of NICE and CSP/COT Fallers Guidelines

Other

• Personally and professionally responsible To have a full UK drivers’ license and have use of a car.
• Able to self-motivate
• Able to work as a team member
• Flexible, adaptable and reliable
• Able to work under pressure
• Able to resolve situations of conflict
• To be occupational health cleared for the role specified
• Able to work across the four localities which make up West Hertfordshire.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

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