Specialist Physiotherapist
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, North Greenwich, Greenwich
Specialist Physiotherapist
£44485-£52521
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, North Greenwich, Greenwich
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 5 days ago, 10 Jan | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: a382b44ad11245ea954280838500bd34
Full Job Description
Join our dynamic, integrated team in Greenwich and make a real impact supporting patientsin the community (CR-STAT team). Help people regain independence and stay safely at home.
- Deliver rehab in 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, The successful post-holder will work in Greenwich and CR-STAT team alongside a team of Multi disciplinary professionals and maintain own Client caseload.
- 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
- To 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
- To 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.
HCPC-registered Physiotherapist - Experience or interest in community rehab/discharge planning
- Confident, collaborative, and patient-focused
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