Specialist Physiotherapist | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2024 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN25 4AN |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6304387/249-6196189-2 |
Summary
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?
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. . Confidence in proactively assessing and managing frailty and deconditioning is essential. A background of acute medical and respiratory care would be highly valued within this integrated Urgent Community Response (UCR) and NHS@Home service.
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.
This role could be considered 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 prioritise referrals for home based and venue based rehabilitation services and refer to other services when necessary.
• 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 – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.
The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner with other care professionals and services. They will combine high level assessment to establish a diagnosis, initiate medical and/or nursing/therapy interventions, appropriately refer and lead the co-ordination of care from an integrated team perspective, working with partner agencies and key stake holders.
Provide individualised care plan for all patients, so that their condition remains as stable as possible and, where appropriate, hospital admission is prevented and patient remains within their own home as to their wishes.
To provide clinical therapy leadership to the Community Teams and thereby support the wider community including Primary Care, Social Care, and all other provider organisationsto deliver high standards of care to patients. This will be the avoidance of unnecessary admission to secondary care and the supporting of patients discharged from hospital bed based care.
To provide education and training for practitioners, and within integrated community teams, to help develop a competent and confident workforce to support patients.
This advert closes on Sunday 19 May 2024
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