Specialist Physiotherapist | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2024 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN25 4AN |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6196189/249-6196189 |
Summary
We are an integrated, innovative and supportive inter-disciplinary team, making a real difference to people’s lives. We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and enthusiastic Physiotherapist with previous NHS experience who is seeking to develop and support advanced specialist clinical practice and would relish the opportunity to develop with us. A background of acute medical and respiratory care would be highly valued within the Urgent Community Response (UCR) and NHS@Home service. Confidence in proactively managing frailty and deconditioning is essential.
Your desire should be to develop your skills in rapid assessment; promoting health, well-being and independence within intermediate care across seven days. We champion interagency collaboration and work closely with Acute Hospital Services, Community, Adult Social Care and the Hospice. You will be based within the Community Rehabilitation Team who provide UCR, HomeFirst, NHS@Home, reablement, discharge to assess, specialist falls and Parkinsons services.
Would you like to be an integral part of the NHS@Home service development and use your AHP specialist skills to provide excellent patient care in Swindon Community Services?
This role is suitable as a B6/7 Development Post.
You will need to be a car driver and owner - independent means of travel is essential for this role.
• To provide a high standard of physiotherapy assessment, treatment and advice to patients/clients, carers and families in their own homes. Wherever possible promoting hospital admission avoidance and reduce in-patient length of stay with supported early discharge to ensure that patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
• Lead in the assessment, diagnosis and formulation of physiotherapy treatment plans for NHS@ Home patients.
• To share your knowledge and clinical reasoning skills to support teams in other clinical areas in complex case management.
• Use specialist skills to screen and priorities referrals for home based and venue based rehabilitation services and refer to other services when necessary.
• Assess the impact of the home environment and patient/client’s social network to establish any factors that may influence the treatment plan.
• As part of your employment with GWH we actively support and provide development opportunities to advance practice and to support your professional objectives. There is a strong leadership structure that enables both clinical and leadership development
• You will be joining a very friendly, social and supportive team with a wealth of experience in a variety of areas which the team is happy to share.
Please see the attached job description for full details
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are.
Service We will put our patients first
Teamwork We will work together
Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect We will act with integrity
Working as an autonomous practitioner in partnership with other care professionals and using advanced respiratory skills and expert knowledge to assess, monitor and review the complex physical, social and psychological needs of the patients with respiratory problems. Develop management plans and instigate therapeutic treatments based on comprehensive patient focused assessments and best available evidence in order to improve health outcomes.
To undertake exercise tests to establish suitability to exercise safely.
To undertake dysautonomia assessments e.g. active stand tests
To regularly contribute to MDT discussion sharing advance clinical knowledge and reasoning e.g. Presenting your cases at both medical and complex sessions, evaluating research papers.
To provide education and training for practitioners, and within inter-grated community teams, to help develop a competent and confident workforce to support patients.
Please see Job Description for full details.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024
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