Specialist Physiotherapist - Static, in "Falls"

NHS; Pontypridd; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is seeking a Specialist Physiotherapist to join their new falls service. This role involves providing high-quality physiotherapy, working with individuals and their carers to implement effective fall prevention strategies. The position offers opportunities for professional development and is integral to enhancing community health services.

Benefits

Excellent L&D offer

Support for external learning

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary setting.
• Experience of community working.
• Experience of older adults/falls.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high standard of physiotherapy service within the falls service.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary team.
• Make decisions to reduce the risk of falls for individuals.

Skills

Ability to work independently

Ability to keep accurate patient notes

Good time management

Education

BSc Physiotherapy

Health Professions Council registration

Completion of validated Clinical Educator's course

Job description

Go back Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Specialist Physiotherapist - Static, in "Falls"

The closing date is 04 June 2025

This is a fantastic opportunity for a physiotherapist to join the team at the development of this exciting new service. You will be involved in the implementation of a falls service across CTM.

This service will provide falls advice, assessment, and intervention when needed at local venues. We are developing a service that looks at both prevention and intervention - expanding on some exciting work already going on in CTM and making this available to our whole community.

The team will work with an individual and their carer to make decisions about the best way to reduce the risk of the person falling, raise awareness of risk factors for falling and make any necessary changes to their home to prevent falls.

We are creating innovative offers of assessment, advice and intervention, building strong integrated teams and designing a seamless pathway for our patients with our patients.

You will be valued as an integral part of the service development.

Your career progression is important to us and CTM has an excellent L&D offer as well as support for external learning. You will be supported in this role to develop your skills in this area and be provided with the supervision and education needed to enable you and the team to feel confident in being a part of starting this new service.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of physiotherapy service within the falls service working across the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) localities, health board sites and various community settings.

To autonomously work as well as alongside members of the multidisciplinary team ensuring best current, evidence based clinical management of patients referred within the defined specialist clinical area.

The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner and will have relevant post registration experience for the role and will undertake specialist clinical duties as required within a defined specialist clinical area.

Your wellbeing matters to us and we are proud of the work our wellbeing champions do across therapies and the range of activities that are on offer.

#CTMAtOurBest #CTMTherapiesTryOutForTheTeam

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job responsibilities

The team will work with an individual and their carer to make decisions about the best way to reduce the risk of the person falling, raise awareness of risk factors for falling and make any necessary changes to their home to prevent falls.

See job description and personal specification

Person Specification

Qualifications/ Knowledge

• Bsc Physiotherapy
• Health Professions Council registration
• Knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards for falls (local and national)
• Sound knowledge of Standards of Professional Practice
• Current in mandatory training requirements
• Knowledge of a range of policies/ procedures.
• Evidence of broad spectrum clinical knowledge skills base
• Completion of validated Clinical Educator's course
• Evidence of attendance on appropriate courses to enhance specialist knowledge/skills

Experience

• Full experience within the core Band 5 rotations,
• Experience of community working
• Experience of older adults/falls
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary setting
• NHS experience
• Experience in individual and group work

Aptitude and Abilities

• Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes
• Ability to organise and prioritize.
• Good time management

Values

• Promote and uphold the values and behaviours of CTMUHB.

Other

• Recognition of own level of competence
• Ability to carry out full range of duties of the post (to include travel in a timely manner around the various bases and carry out on-call duties)
• Availability to participate in out of hours emergency on-call rota as required
• Ability to speak Welsh

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.

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