Specialist Physiotherapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health provider in Greater London is looking for a HCPC-registered Physiotherapist to support patients through rehabilitation in Discharge to Assess units and in the community. The role encompasses delivering care, conducting assessments, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to promote independence. Candidates should have experience or interest in community rehab, along with a confident, patient-focused approach.

Benefits

Diverse caseload and working environments

Supportive, innovative MDT

Ongoing CPD and supervision

Qualifications

• HCPC-registered Physiotherapist.
• Experience or interest in community rehab/discharge planning.
• Ability to work autonomously and in a team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver rehab in D2A units and community settings.
• Support safe discharges in collaboration with the MDT.
• Provide physiotherapy assessments and develop care plans.
• Conduct home visits and manage designated caseload.

Skills

Confidence

Collaboration

Patient-focused

Education

HCPC registration as a Physiotherapist

Job description

Join our dynamic, integrated team in Greenwich and make a real impact supporting patients across Discharge to Assess (D2A) Units, the D2A pathway, and in the community (CR-STAT team). Help people regain independence and stay safely at home.

Responsibilities

• Deliver rehab in D2A units and community settings
• Support safe discharges in collaboration with the MDT
• Provide specialist physiotherapy across a varied caseload
• Conduct home visits across the borough
• Work autonomously within a supportive team
• Align care with the Trust’s community healthcare goals
• Undertake client assessment using standardised assessment tools and/or the single assessment process.
• Undertake holistic assessments and standardised falls assessment tools in order to develop a multidisciplinary care plan
• Work with the wider multidisciplinary team to devise a holistic care plan and ensure that all health and social needs are met in order to reduce any risks and maintain independence
• Recommend appropriate interventions to promote independence and safety
• Provide physiotherapy assessment as an autonomous and lone practitioner to clients, utilising effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence based practice to develop individual care plans
• Maintain effective multidisciplinary communications in order to ensure that treatment goals are met and a high quality service is provided to clients
• Ensure safe, appropriate and effective provision, installation and demonstration of equipment and further develop knowledge of minor/major adaptation provision and non-stock equipment availability and use.
• Contribute to meeting performance targets for the organisation
• Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care.
• Accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time. Ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and support more junior staff to do likewise.
• Undertake physiotherapist's assessments in the Discharge to assess unit as well as in clients' homes, in clinics and care homes as required.
• Able to assess and treat a variety of conditions (e.g., orthopaedic surgery, mobility problems, equipment needs, falls and other common pathologies)
• Compare and utilise appropriate treatment form a range of options to develop, implement and re-assess physiotherapy care plans on an ongoing basis
• Demonstrate theoretical knowledge of multiple pathologies and impairments in the assessment of community clients often in the presence of incomplete or conflicting referral information to form accurate analyses and diagnoses
• Monitor, review and continually re-assess clients care plans and objectives against outcome measures to facilitate modification of packages of care/targets as appropriate to enable achievement of their goals
• Seek guidance from more experienced physiotherapy colleagues regarding the treatment and management of clients with complex presentations
• Provide advice and education to client, carers and relatives based on clinical evidence
• Provide falls prevention/healthy living advice to staff and clients as required (including care homes, intermediate care units and health promotion events)
• Be responsible for obtaining client and/or carer consent prior to physiotherapy intervention in accordance with professional guidelines
• Ensure management of clinical risk within own caseload
• Exhibit developed manual handling knowledge and skills
• Clinical prioritisation of own caseload
• Communicate effectively, with empathy and reassurance with patients and carers to maximise potential and to ensure an understanding of conditions.
• Delegate and monitor clinical tasks to Therapy Assistant Practitioners and Rehab Assistants

Qualifications

• HCPC-registered Physiotherapist
• Experience or interest in community rehab/discharge planning
• Confident, collaborative, and patient-focused

Benefits

• Diverse caseload and working environments
• Supportive, innovative MDT
• Ongoing CPD, supervision, and Trust benefits

Important Sponsorship Information

We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post. The successful post-holder will work across 2 D2A units in Greenwich and CR-STAT team alongside a team of multi-disciplinary professionals and maintain own client caseload.

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About Oxleas

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care