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Senior Physiotherapist – Wards and Community | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date: 17 July 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £37,162 - £44,629 per annum, pro rata (incl of HCAS)
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 16 August 2024
Location: Maidenhead, SL6 6DU
Company: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6487439/371-CHS623

Summary


Senior PhysiotherapistBand 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 timemanagement skills and be computer literate. You will bring energy and creativity to trust wide initiatives such as theAgeingWell 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’stown 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, great travel links to the M4, M25, M40 and M3 and is just a short trip from Heathrow international airport and central London.




The servicehours 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 yourmanagement

• Responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficientlywith regard toclinical and management priorities and use oftime

• 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 providean accuratediagnosis of theircondition

• 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-assessand alter treatment programmesin order toprogress treatmentseffectively


Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

Benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.

The “must haves” for this role: 
1. Good timemanagement skills

1. Registered with the HCPC

1. Ability to travel to multiple sites in an efficientmanner

1. Ability toparticipatein 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!

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.


This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Jul 2024

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