Senior Physiotherapist (Intermediate Care)

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT); Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Physiotherapist to join the Intermediate Care Team. The role focuses on delivering high-quality, patient-centred therapy in patients' homes and interim settings to support early discharge from hospital.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, developing therapy assistant practitioners and integrated care workers while ensuring safe patient flow and efficient service delivery.

Qualifications

• Assess patients with complex conditions using specialist clinical reasoning.
• Identify patient needs, set goals, and provide therapy interventions and rehabilitation plans.
• Work across care pathways for Intermediate Care including home and care home settings.
• Operate as an autonomous practitioner within a wide multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments of patients in the community and care home settings.
• Develop and implement rehabilitation programmes and equipment needs.
• Collaborate with other clinicians to ensure safe patient discharge and flow.
• Manage a shared caseload across pathways 1 and 2 with a holistic approach.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Autonomous practitioner

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Community care

Holistic approach

Job description

We are currently looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Senior Physiotherapist to join our expanding Intermediate Care Team.

The vision of the service is to provide outstanding, patient focused, community based health care and therapy, optimising peoples potential to achieve their goals by supporting earlier discharge from hospital.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that patients get the best care possible in their own homes, maximising potential in the initial phases upon discharge from hospital in our short stay service. The service also provides therapy within our interim bed environment and supports the prevention of hospital admissions.

Successful applicants will be expected to assist in the development of therapy assistant practitioners and integrated care workers, to support the clinical delivery of the service and proactively work alongside the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure patient flow and safety.

If you are looking for a new challenge, are dynamic, flexible and enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team making a difference in our community then you are the right person for us.

• To 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 equipment and rehabilitation programmes.
• To work across Pathway 1 (care at home) and Pathway 2 (care home beds) for the Intermediate Care service.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi-professional team.
• To be responsible for patients on shared caseloads within community and/or care home settings.
• To take a holistic approach to all therapeutic interventions, working across professional boundaries at times.

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.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Caitlin Kennedy Job title: Intermediate Care Team Clinical Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07889 159800