Highly Specialist Physiotherapist | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 27 Mehefin 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £54,320 - £60,981 per annum Inc HCA |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 27 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, E1 4DG |
| Cwmni: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7297381/363-CTH7297381 |
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Are you passionate about preventing falls, promoting independence, and delivering transformational care across the community? We are looking for an inspiring Falls Lead Physiotherapist to drive innovation and lead integrated falls prevention and management across our community pathways to join our Admission Avoidance and Discharge Service. We are seeking for a skilled Physiotherapists to lead in driving a proactive prevention approach and be at the forefront of proactive healthcare in a multidisciplinary team that will shape the future of Intermediate Care Falls Pathways.
This role is developed to be the pivotal link between acute, community, and care sector services. Working in collaboration with Older People Service at The Royal London Hospital, the Intermediate Care Service, Urgent Community Response, and the wider Community Therapy Teams, you will design and implement a structured, preventative falls management pathway that delivers real impact across the system.
You will also work in partnership with care homes, independent providers, and voluntary and community organisations to embed sustainable, evidence-based interventions from proactive care plans to stable, long-term community and care home based and exercise groups.
• Lead in strategic falls prevention and management initiatives across community, hospital discharges, and care home settings.
• Deliver coordinated care planning and intervention in partnership with Admission Avoidance and Discharge Service, Community Therapy Team, and Integrated In-Reach and Older People Service clinicians.
• Develop and expand MDT community facing exercise groups focusing on strength, balance, and resilience.
• Work collaboratively with the independent care sector, primary care, and other partners to embed falls prevention into everyday practice.
• Champion training and upskilling across care teams and build networks of influence to drive a whole system approach to falls reduction.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
• The post holder will be required to work with partners across the health and social care interface to ensure a joined up and integrated approach is adopted to the provision of services. All staff are expected to work across traditional boundaries of both community and acute services, to deliver truly holistic care.
• To be professionally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of highly complex patients in your care to prevent relapses/injury and identify risks for admission. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for patients under your management, and support more junior staff to do likewise.
• To lead the multidisciplinary falls response within the Admission Avoidance and Discharge Service and Older People Clinic
• To support therapy teams with specialist input, clinical reasoning, and escalation pathways for patients who have fallen or are at high risk.
• To develop and embed structured care plans with measurable goals and timely reviews.
• To coordinate and integrate care across community teams and Falls Clinic, ensuring continuity and consistency.
• To provide outreach support to primary care networks, care homes, and voluntary sector organizations to deliver falls awareness, training, and proactive case identification.
• To contribute to service development, data analysis, and quality improvement initiatives to drive outcomes in falls prevention and reduce system pressure.
• To formulate accurate physiotherapy assessment and prognosis of patients/clients presenting with a broad range of highly complex physical, cognitive and psychological conditions and disabilities by utilising interpreting and analytical skills in order to recommend the best client-centred treatment plan and develop comprehensive discharge plans in order to meet patients’ complex physical, cognitive, social and environmental needs.
• To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients and organise this effectively and efficiently with regards to clinical priorities and use of time. To ensure the junior staff do likewise.
• To be a source of knowledge and demonstrate highly specialised knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options, using clinical assessment, reasoning skills, and knowledge of wide range of treatment skills.
• To participate in on-going service development within the Admission Avoidance & Discharge Serviceand the widerCommunity Health Services.
• To deputise for the Clinical Lead taking responsibility for operationally managing allocated parts of the service.
• To be responsible for the education, supervision, and line management of junior staff, including static and rotational staff, postural stability instructor, and physiotherapy students.
This advert closes on Sunday 13 Jul 2025