Rotational Physiotherapist: In-Patient Care & On-Call

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust; Taunton; Presencial; GBP 28.000 - 34.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust in Taunton seeks a clinically autonomous Physiotherapist to join inpatient and community services. You will plan and deliver patient-centered care, using clinical judgement and established guidelines.

Responsibilities include comprehensive examinations, developing tailored treatment plans, guiding exercises, and contributing to discharge planning with on-call duties after qualification.

Responsabilidades

• Plan and prioritise own clinical workload, service using clinical judgement and department guidelines
• Treat patients as a fully autonomous practitioner with full responsibility for, and legal accountability for, individual clinical decisions and actions
• Ensure all patients understand the physiotherapy treatment process, and have given valid and informed consent for treatment
• Complete a full clinical examination of each patient, integrating information from patient, carers, medical/nursing records and the clinical examination
• Take into account the psychological and social, as well as medical aspects of the patients' history, to provide a holistic, patient centred approach
• Formulate a clinical diagnosis and goals, following a complete analysis of the clinical examination
• Select individually tailored physiotherapy interventions / programs of care from a range of treatment options
• Carry out manual physiotherapy requiring a high precision of hand eye coordination
• Assess and evaluate the effects of the chosen physiotherapy treatment during the course, altering approach as needed
• Teach therapeutic exercises through verbal explanation, visual demonstration or guiding movements
• Use a wide variety of physiotherapy techniques e.g. manual therapy, exercise therapy, and respiratory physiology as appropriate
• Take a full part in the in-patient discharge planning process, documenting physiotherapy elements in the medical record
• Carry out all physiotherapy interventions within recognised approaches/practice
• From approximately 3 months post qualification, cover respiratory work during bank holidays and weekends as 'second on', and participate in on-call rota

Descripción del empleo

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust in Taunton seeks a clinically autonomous Physiotherapist to join inpatient and community services. You will plan and deliver patient-centered care, using clinical judgement and established guidelines.

Responsibilities include comprehensive examinations, developing tailored treatment plans, guiding exercises, and contributing to discharge planning with on-call duties after qualification.