Specialist Community Physiotherapist UCR Service

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust; Scarborough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in the Scarborough area is seeking a Specialist Community Physiotherapist to support patients in their homes. The successful candidate will possess strong communication skills and a degree in Physiotherapy, with the ability to manage a varied caseload. This role involves delivering specialist physiotherapy interventions and leading junior staff. Competitive benefits including a personal car lease scheme and a supportive work environment are offered.

Benefits

Personal car lease scheme

Discounted gym membership

Attractive pension scheme

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice.
• Specialist training or equivalent experience in a specialist field.
• Experience of working in community home-based physiotherapy.

Responsibilities

• Triage & prioritise new referrals received by the service.
• Organise a designated caseload of patients effectively.
• Undertake comprehensive assessments of patients.

Skills

Communication skills

Decision making

Caseload management

IT skills

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

Current HPC professional registration

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Specialist Community Physiotherapist UCR Service

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, self-motivated & proactive Physiotherapist, with excellent communication, decision making & caseload management skills. To work in the Urgent Community response and intermediate care service, supporting Scarborough and Ryedale localities.

This role will support patients to remain at home, reduce hospital admission and support discharge. Enabling patients to be as independent as possible by providing specialist physiotherapy assessment & interventions to patients with a wide variety of clinical conditions in their own homes & care homes within the local community.

To succeed in this role you will need to be passionate about community healthcare provision, able to tackle key priorities with enthusiasm & have the tenacity to deliver in an ever changing environment. We are committed to our trust values of caring, learning & growing & offer a variety of learning opportunities with regular supervision and in-service training programmes. As a senior therapist you will have management and supervision responsibilities for junior staff & students.

We would like to hear from established & experienced Band 6 Physiotherapists, or experienced Band 5 Physiotherapists who are looking for their next stage of development.

Humber NHS Foundation Trust provides a number of staff benefits including personal car lease scheme, discounted gym membership & attractive pension scheme.

This role may be eligible for recruitment incentives, please liaise with the recruiting manager for further detail.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of this role include:

• Triage & prioritise new referrals received by the service
• Responsibility for a designated caseload of patients: to organise this effectively and efficiently with regards to clinical priorities and use of time.
• To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations using clinical reasoning skills.
• Support patients with individualised goal setting, education and care plans to work towards fulfilling their potential in a targeted and realistic way via delivery of evidence based clinical interventions and practice in partnership with patients, relatives, staff, managers, and externally with other agencies.
• To be accountable in own area of clinical responsibility participating in regular clinical and line management supervision, completing all required training and ensuring own continued professional development.
• To provide line management, supervision, support, guidance and training to peers, Community Support Practitioners and students.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire.Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range ofbenefitsthat go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy, please see the attached Job description and Person specification.

Person Specification

Experience

• Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by specialist training, experience in specialist field(s) to postgraduate diploma level or equivalent
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
• Experience of working in Community home based physiotherapy
• Experience of using SystmOne
• Member of specialist interest group/network, locally or regionally

Skills and Competencies

• Can commute effectively to facilitate community based visits including transportation of equipment required for clinical interventions.
• IT skills to facilitate use of electronic patient records & other electronic systems e.g. for audit and equipment ordering
• Ability to motivate staff to embrace change
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures
• Ability to carry out basic observations and calculate NEWS2 score
• Ability to identify and set up home based assistive equipment according to individual patient need

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Degree in Physiotherapy
• Current HPC professional registration
• Specialist understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and protocols within identified clinical area
• Member of specialist interest group/network, locally or regionally
• Develop specialist understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and protocols within identified clinical area

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.