Band 6 Community Physiotherapist

As the Team physiotherapist , you will be supporting the multi-disciplinary team and people who will be, and have been, discharged from hospital. You will liaise with individuals, their families, and other Health & Social Care professionals to ensure that the necessary actions and messages are relayed to enable effective short-term care. You will need to be an excellent communicator who enjoys teamwork and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

The Physiotherapist, will act as the source of expertise on the assessment and management of residents presenting with a wide range of pathologies to physiotherapists, skilled non registered staff, other healthcare professionals, GP’s, the residents, social care colleagues and their carers. You are pivotal to the day-to-day delivery of the service and will have regular contact with the patients and their families. We are looking for a friendly and compassionate person who works well under pressure.

You will be a role model daily demonstrating the core values of:

• Commitment to excellence in everything we do, striving to be one of the best acute trusts in the country.

• Working together as one team dedicated to meeting patients’ needs

• Facing the future, continuously improving our performance and adapting services to meet demand.

Key Core Hours – 08.00 – 17.00 = 37.5 hrs per week Monday – Friday:

To enable delivery, you must be able to do the following:

• Demonstrate excellent organisational skills, must be flexible in approach, able to exercise initiative and demonstrate a consistently high standard of professionalism, being aware of the need for confidentiality and integrity.

• Attend the twice-weekly meeting and record actions and notes accordingly.

• Provide physiotherapy expertise within the multi-disciplinary team to people discharged with Home First.

• Complete face to face assessments with people in the community or a temporary placement who require therapy input.

• Liaise and ensure that any on-going Physiotherapy needs are transferred to reablement (STS&R) or Community Physios.

• Lead on Day 1 visits where appropriate, complete assessments, identify goals and a rehabilitation plan.

• Manage a varied caseload, spanning all physiotherapy specialities.

• Co-ordinate discharge and therapy interventions for people leaving temporary placements.

• Provide information to individuals and their families about their condition and how to manage it effectively, ie, exercise programmes.

• Liaise with the remote monitoring team where an alert has been raised, to address concerns.

• Following therapy input, identify potential on-going care needs and solutions to maximize independence.

• To retain professional records in line with your organisation requirements and to complete the Home First records.

• Contribute to the twice-weekly case meeting, providing information to the team about a persons condition, treatment plan and progress.

• Advocate for people who require additional health services, ie Continuing Health Care referrals, hospice care and other community health services

• Completion of pre-discharge assessment for people waiting to come out of temporary placements onto Home First.

• Liaise with staff in the hospital to co-ordinate and manage discharge for people with complex needs.

If you are interested in this great opportunity , please call Alison on 0207 045 3327