Specialist Physiotherapist Frailty Care

NHS Professionals Limited; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Professionals Limited is recruiting a Physiotherapist specialising in Frailty Care to join the Frailty Model Services Department at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, with a countywide base. You will provide autonomous physiotherapy assessments and clinical input to Frailty Proactive Care Planning Clinics across six Integrated Neighbour Team locations, supporting patients to maintain independence.

You will contribute to the service development, work with Primary Care, Local Authority and voluntary

Qualifications

• HCPC registered Physiotherapist.
• Diploma or Degree in Physiotherapy.
• Essential experience in Frailty Care.
• Minimum 18 months experience in a junior rotational NHS Physiotherapy post.
• Experience across core physiotherapy specialties, including acute inpatient care, respiratory, musculoskeletal, neurology and community (desirable).
• Ability to travel across Trust sites (car owner/driver).

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate advanced manual dexterity and palpatory skills to support clinical decision-making and manual interventions.
• Formulate problem lists, establish measurable treatment goals and select outcome measures to evaluate interventions.
• Organise and prioritise a caseload, manage appointments and workload effectively.
• Maintain compliant patient records, obtain informed consent and consider capacity under legal guidelines.
• Provide supervision or training to junior staff where appropriate.
• Support service development by CPD, supervision, audits and safety initiatives.

Skills

Frailty Care

NHS experience

Clinical assessment

Autonomous practice

Education

Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy

Job description

We havean exciting opportunity for a Physiotherapist specialising in Frailty Care atBuckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust to join the Frailty Model ServicesDepartment at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, with a countywide base. You will beresponsible for providing autonomous physiotherapy assessments and clinicalinput to patients attending Frailty Proactive Care Planning Clinics across sixIntegrated Neighbour Team locations. You will be managing frailty healthassessments, providing expert clinical advice and recommending appropriatetherapy interventions in line with agreed protocols and clinical guidelines,helping patients maintain their independence and lead healthier lives. You willalso be supporting the ongoing development of the service, workingcollaboratively with Primary Care, Local Authority and voluntary sectororganisations, and delivering care across multiple hospital and communitysites, including Stoke Mandeville, Wycombe and Amersham Hospitals, as well asMarlow, Thame and Buckingham Community Hospitals.

Main duties of the job

As aPhysiotherapist specialising in Frailty Care, you will be responsible forworking as part of the Proactive Care clinical and interdisciplinary team,contributing to effective multidisciplinary working. You will be managingpatients with complex and diverse clinical presentations, applying advancedspecialist knowledge and analytical skills to identify their individual needs.You will be supporting advanced, comprehensive and standardised assessmenttechniques within specialised clinical areas. You will also be using clinicalreasoning and evidence-based practice to determine appropriate treatment plans,selecting from a wide range of therapeutic approaches and interventions.Additionally, you will be analysing and interpreting clinical and non-clinicalinformation to establish accurate diagnoses across a variety of conditions,seeking guidance from Advanced Physiotherapists where required.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job responsibilities

• Todemonstrate highly developed manual dexterity, coordination and palpatoryskills when carrying out specialist physiotherapy techniques. To apply theseskills effectively to support accurate clinical decision-making and thedelivery of appropriate manual interventions.
• Toformulate individual problem lists, establish measurable treatment goals andselect suitable outcome measures to evaluate the effectiveness ofinterventions. To determine the most appropriate environment for patienttreatment, considering clinical requirements, safety and available resources.
• To takeresponsibility for organising and prioritising an individual caseload, managingappointments, meetings and competing workload demands effectively. To adaptworking arrangements in response to changing service priorities and recogniseprofessional limitations, seeking senior guidance when necessary.
• Tomaintain comprehensive, accurate and evaluative patient records in accordancewith professional standards, legal requirements and Trust policies. To obtainvalid informed consent, assess patients' capacity where necessary and workwithin the appropriate legal framework when supporting individuals who lackcapacity.
• Toprovide supervision, guidance and training to junior colleagues, undergraduatestudents and therapy support staff, delegating responsibilities appropriatelyaccording to their competence. To ensure the safe use of clinical equipment,undertake relevant risk assessments and follow organisational manual handlingprocedures.
• Tocontribute to the professional and operational development of the service bymaintaining a CPD portfolio, participating in clinical supervision, trainingsessions, audits and research activities. To support quality assurance, policyimplementation, health and safety initiatives and departmentalresponsibilities, deputising for senior colleagues when required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• HCPC registered Physiotherapist.
• Diploma or Degree in Physiotherapy.
• Essential experience in Frailty Care.
• Minimum 18 months experience in a junior rotational NHS Physiotherapy post.
• Experience across core physiotherapy specialties, including acute inpatient care, respiratory, musculoskeletal, neurology and community (desirable).
• Ability to travel across Trust sites (car owner/driver).

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.