Specialist Physiotherapist - Static, in "Falls"
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
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All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
This is a fantastic opportunity for a physiotherapist to join the team at the development of this exciting new service. You will be involved in the implementation of a falls service across CTM.
This service will provide falls advice, assessment, and intervention when needed at local venues. We are developing a service that looks at both prevention and intervention – expanding on some exciting work already going on in CTM and making this available to our whole community.
The team will work with an individual and their carer to make decisions about the best way to reduce the risk of the person falling, raise awareness of risk factors for falling and make any necessary changes to their home to prevent falls.
We are creating innovative offers of assessment, advice and intervention, building strong integrated teams and designing a seamless pathway for our patients with our patients.
You will be valued as an integral part of the service development.
Your career progression is important to us and CTM has an excellent L&D offer as well as support for external learning. You will be supported in this role to develop your skills in this area and be provided with the supervision and education needed to enable you and the team to feel confident in being a part of starting this new service.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high standard of physiotherapy service within the falls service working across the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) localities, health board sites and various community settings.
To autonomously work as well as alongside members of the multidisciplinary team ensuring best current, evidence based clinical management of patients referred within the defined specialist clinical area.
The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner and will have relevant post registration experience for the role and will undertake specialist clinical duties as required within a defined specialist clinical area.
Your wellbeing matters to us and we are proud of the work our wellbeing champions do across therapies and the range of activities that are on offer.
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Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The team will work with an individual and their carer to make decisions about the best way to reduce the risk of the person falling, raise awareness of risk factors for falling and make any necessary changes to their home to prevent falls.
See job description and personal specification
Person specification
Qualifications/ Knowledge
Essential criteria- Bsc Physiotherapy
- Health Professions Council registration
- Knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards for falls (local and national)
- Sound knowledge of Standards of Professional Practice
- Current in mandatory training requirements
- Knowledge of a range of policies/ procedures.
- Evidence of broad spectrum clinical knowledge skills base
- Completion of validated Clinical Educator’s course
- Evidence of attendance on appropriate courses to enhance specialist knowledge/skills
Experience
Essential criteria- Full experience within the core Band 5 rotations,
- Experience of community working
- Experience of older adults/falls
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary setting
- NHS experience
- Experience in individual and group work
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria- Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Good communicator
- Ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes
- Ability to organise and prioritize.
- Good time management
- Keyboard/IT skills
Values
Essential criteria- Promote and uphold the values and behaviours of CTMUHB.
Other
Essential criteria- Recognition of own level of competence
- Successful DBS (Enhanced)
- Ability to carry out full range of duties of the post (to include travel in a timely manner around the various bases and carry out on-call duties)
- Availability to participate in out of hours emergency on-call rota as required
- Ability to speak Welsh
If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.