Senior Physiotherapist

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; Sur place; GBP 42 000 - 52 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Physiotherapist to join the Inpatient Rehabilitation Service at Cambridge Rehabilitation Unit, Brookfields Hospital, Cambridge. You will support patients on inpatient wards, conduct holistic assessments, and lead rehabilitation plans with MDT input.

Role involves discharge planning, complex caseload management, and collaboration with the clinical lead to transform the inpatient rehabilitation pathway.

Qualifications

• Autonomous practitioner within a multi-professional team.
• Experience or ability to assess complex patients and plan rehabilitation.

Responsabilités

• Provide specialist rehabilitation to inpatients with complex needs.
• Lead on discharge planning and follow-up care.
• Deliver holistic clinical assessments and therapy interventions.
• Support patient and carer participation in decision making.
• Allocate or signpost tasks and maintain high standards of care.
• Undertake home visits and work across CPFT settings as required.

Connaissances

Autonomous practitioner

Rehabilitation therapy

Clinical reasoning

Discharge planning

Description du poste

We have an exciting opportunity for a rehabilitaion focused Senior Physiotherapist to join our Inpatient Rehabilitation Service at Cambridge Rehabilitation Unit, based at Brookfields Hospital site on Mill Road in Cambridge.

This position is working with patients on our inpatient wards to support patients out of hospital and offer holistic clinical assessment, rehabilitation, discharge planning and specialist therapy knowledge and skills.

Successful applicants will play a vital role in supporting patient flow through the pathways as well as providing clinical skills and knowledge to the MDT. This position offers flexibility, variety and the opportunity to be involved in the transformation of our inpatient rehabilitation service. You will be supported by a band 7 clinical lead.

Main duties of the job

• To work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi-professional team.
• To be responsible for own caseload and undertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills.
• To identify patient needs, agree goals and provide appropriate therapy interventions, provide adaptive equipment and rehabilitation programmes.
• To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making. To provide support and education to peers, new staff, non-registered staff and students.
• To be accountable for a delegated caseload held by Band 5 Therapists and Assistant Practitioners.
• To prioritise all patients' tasks according to clinical need and to allocate or signpost appropriately. To provide a high standard of care.
• To work in various community settings within CPFT as required, completing home visits when required.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.