Specialist Physiotherapist

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic Physiotherapist to join our integrated, community-based team in inner-city London. You will work across a range of locations, delivering holistic assessments, rehab plans and short-term multidisciplinary care to adults with functional changes.

You will be supported with supervision, leadership development and opportunities to contribute to student mentorship, service evaluation and research.

Qualifications

• Develop your clinical skills in holistic assessment, problem solving, intervention planning and joint working with other health and social care colleagues.
• Develop management and operational skills.
• Access leadership development training courses to support career development.

Responsibilities

• Have responsibility for specialist rehabilitation and therapy assessment, specialist intervention, care planning and review of individual clients.
• Delegate tasks to RSWs.
• Case manage people through intensive short term rehabilitation programmes. Goal setting with clients to maximise independence, enable early discharge and reduce admissions.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner, complying with HCPC and CSP standards and professional expectations.
• Work as part of a flexible multidisciplinary team to meet client needs using a holistic, client-centred approach.

Skills

Holistic assessment

Intervention planning

Joint working

Clinical supervision

Job description

We're looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Physiotherapist to join our vibrant and supportive team.

We are an integrated health and social care MDT, working with adults over the age of 18 who have experienced a recent change in their function secondary to physical and/or cognitive changes. We provide up to 6 weeks of tailored rehabilitation that optimises their engagement and independence of their ADL’s.

Our Service Aims To

• Facilitate the safe discharge of people from healthcare in hospital to healthcare at home.
• Provide intensive, short term multi-disciplinary rehabilitation & care support to promote functional independence.

Our Professional Offer To You

• Develop your clinical skills in holistic assessment, problem solving, intervention planning and joint working with other health and social care colleagues.
• Develop management and operational skills.
• Access appropriate GSTT leadership development training courses to support career development.
• Support you to be involved in Physio meetings and In-service training.
• Provide supervision and clinical support.

At GSTT We Are Committed To Providing

• Professional expert advice, including access to our Professional Leads in our Community and Hospital settings.
• An annual appraisal and PDR.
• Structured in-service development programs and supervisions.
• Support to undertake research, audit and service evaluation.
• Training links to London Southbank and King’s College Universities.

Have responsibility for specialist rehabilitation and therapy assessment, specialist intervention, care planning and review of individual clients.

Delegate tasks to RSWs.

Case manage people through intensive short term rehabilitation programmes. Goal setting with clients to maximise independence, facilitate early hospital discharge, reduce reliance on care and reduce admissions to long term domiciliary care.

Work, as a lone practitioner and at times with colleagues, across a variety of locations within the community to meet the needs of a multi-cultural population in an inner city area.

Work as an autonomous practitioner complying with the standards set by the regulatory body (HCPC), professional body (CSP), government, Trust and department, thereby being professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work and to meet the requirements for professional registration.

Work as part of a flexible multidisciplinary team, across traditional professional boundaries to meet the needs of clients using a holistic and client centred approach.

To be responsible for practice, education, assessment, mentorship and preceptorship of students and new/junior members of staff. To work towards organisational priorities and achieving service aims.

Support the department’s commitment to meeting patient needs and delivering excellence it is essential the post holder be able to work their hours and contribute to both rotas over a 7 day week, including weekday and weekend.

About The Trust

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

Integrated Local Services (ILS) at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of community and inpatient health services for adults within the communities of Lambeth and Southwark. Our hospital-based inpatient and outpatient services provide care for adults from across the region.

Our services range from health promotion through to delivery of high-quality care for complex patients in the community centres.

Our values

Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it. We are:

• Caring – we put patients first
• Ambitious – we innovate and strive for excellence
• Inclusive – we respect each other and work collaboratively

As part of our transparent interview process, we will share some of the interview questions with you in advance.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Omkar Sawant Job title: Senior Specialist Physiotherapist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 02030495391