Specialist Physiotherapist

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in London seeks a Specialist Physiotherapist for their expanding @home service. This role involves providing urgent community responses and requires strong assessment skills, effective communication, and the ability to work in a multidisciplinary team. The position offers career progression and the opportunity to work with diverse populations in a rewarding environment.

Benefits

CPD Funding

In-Service Training

Multidisciplinary Collaboration Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in community physiotherapy desirable.
• High level of assessment skills and patient-centred goal setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide urgent therapy assessment and rehabilitation.
• Supervise and train support staff and students.
• Participate in departmental research and audits.

Skills

Assessment Skills

Communication Skills

Clinical Reasoning Skills

Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Education

Band 5 Physiotherapist

Band 6 Physiotherapist

Job description

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The @home service is one of the leading and largest Urgent Community Responses services in London. We operate as a virtual ward, and are currently expanding the service therefore looking for a Specialist Physiotherapist to join the team. This role is suited to an experienced Band 5 Physiotherapist ready for growth into a Band 6 role; or current Band 6 Physiotherapist seeking a new and rewarding challenge. This person will be innovative, enthusiastic, and thrive working in a multidisciplinary service.

The service aligns with the NHS England’s Long-Term Plan to support England’s ageing population and those with complex needs. The @home service are expanding our virtual ward and falls pathways, supporting elderly fallers to remain at home thus reducing the pressure on LAS; and working more collaboratively with social care and other community therapy teams. Successful candidates will have a passion for working under an admission avoidance model and in facilitating early discharge from hospitals.

The service operates seven days per week between the hours of 08.00hrs to 23.00hrs however therapists will work until 20.00. This is a shift work pattern rota of 13 shifts over a four-week period, inclusive of weekends. This role requires the use of public transport for home visits. Alternatively having a valid and current UK driver’s license and/or vehicle that can be used for home visiting is desirable.

Applicants who have previously been unsuccessful need not re-apply.

As a Specialist Physiotherapist you will a demonstrate high level of assessment skills and specialist interventions; patient-centred goals setting abilities; and collaborative multidisciplinary discharge planning abilities in a face-paced working setting. Previous community experience and a passion for urgent therapy assessment, intervention and rehabilitation in supporting patients to remain in their own home is desirable. This post will involve working in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark which occupy some of the most diverse populations, cultures and languages in London.

You will have supervisory, teaching and training responsibilities for the Nursing Rehab Support Workers, Allied Health Students, and the wider multidisciplinary team. Furthermore, you will be an active participant in evidence-based projects, departmental research and audits including recommendations for changes in practice as required and in line with current NHS directives.

Excellent communication skills are essential, and you must be enthusiastic, flexible and able to work autonomously using strong clinical assessment and clinical reasoning skills. You will have opportunities for career progression and development an extended scope of practice role within the service; supported through regular supervision and performance development reviews.

The @home service is a community based, multidisciplinary team consisting of GP’s, Consultant Geriatricians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Social Workers, and NRSW. Referrals come primarily from primary and secondary centres; consultants, GPs, health providers, social care services, and the London Ambulance Service.

With the team's extensive clinical and leadership expertise, this role offers exciting and diverse development opportunities, including access to CPD funding, in-service training, and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Patient conditions range from acute medical episodes to more acute on chronic longer-term or complex health or social conditions, including the frail elderly, who benefit from short-term acute interventions that our service provides. We work closely teams through the patients care pathway, inclusive of acute to longer-term support teams, as indicated.

The service operates seven days a week between the hours of 08.00hrs to 23.00hrs across a shift pattern rota. As a Specialist Occupational Therapist, you will be working a pattern of 13 shifts over four weeks, from 08.00 to 20.00, inclusive of weekends.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jessica Henry Job title: Therapy Lead Email address: [e-mail]

Please email Jessica should you wish to discuss the positions. CV's will not be accepted via email. All applications must be made via the Trac website.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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