Band 5 Physiotherapist in Calne

Join our dynamic Reablement Team based in Bath and surrounding areas. We are a short-term service supporting adults at home and in care settings, focusing on promoting independence through rehabilitation and equipment provision. The Reablement service supports and works with people, either in their own home or in Residential or Nursing Homes, aiming to maximise and maintain independence through rehabilitation and support.

Following an initial assessment and in consultation with the service user, a care plan and rehabilitation programme is drawn up. Service users are encouraged to actively participate in their plans and are supported to make informed choices regarding their care. This is a part-time role working 30 hours per week at Calne Family Health Centre, SN11 8BN.

Key Responsibilities:

• To be responsible for own case load, evaluation of interventions and documentation alongside CSP standard.
• To act as a role model, ensuring high quality, professional standards are maintained at all times.
• To work within integrated multi-professional team.
• To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning and implementing physiotherapy treatment and care to patients within professional guidelines, with support of specialist team members and the team coordinator.
• To undertake assessments, care planning and evaluation.
• Wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure that patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
• To keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
• To support the Band 6 with the day to day planning of a high quality Physiotherapy service.
• Organise and manage own time allocating work appropriately in order to achieve the patients goals.
• To manage risks in diverse and sometimes challenging environments.
• To ensure that record keeping is to a consistently high standard.
• The post holder will interact with all members of nursing, therapy, medical and other allied professionals related to community teams and other relevant agencies.

The ideal candidate will have:

• MCSP Dip PT / BSc / BSc (Hons) PT
• Registered as a Physiotherapist with the Health and Care Professionals Council
• To possess a current, valid full driving licence and suitably insured
• Broad range of clinical experience through student placements
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience of applying research-based information to practice
• Competence in a wide range of physiotherapy skills
• To be able to work flexibly and sensitively
• Undertake specific physiotherapy tasks requiring precision and/or intense concentration.
• Manual handling skills and experience
• Ability to sensitively inform service users on emotional issues
• To be flexible and adaptable
• Organisational & time management skills
• Clinical reasoning skills
• The ability to identify and act upon adverse clinical signs
• The ability to work effectively in a team environment
• The ability to demonstrate an understanding of the NHS and challenges facing physiotherapy
• Ability to move between sites in the Swindon and Wiltshire area
• Driven to achieve
• Self-motivated
• Good time management
• Willing to work in other areas of HCRG as and when required to do so
• A valid UK driving Licence and a vehicle that can be used for business purposes
• MSc Physiotherapist
• Knowledge of legislation affecting professional practice

As a Band 5 Physiotherapist you will be part of our valued team in our Community Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.