Here at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare, we are on an incredible journey of innovation. As part of our journey, we are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and caring Band 5 Physiotherapist to join our Community Learning Disability Health Team based at Broom Street. If you are currently a qualified or working towards the qualification, we want to hear from you.
The Trust provides patient-centered Mental Health, Specialist Learning Disability, and related services for people of all ages; aiming to be the best in all that we do and working in partnership to deliver services that promote recovery, wellbeing, and independent living.
The post offers the opportunity to work in an exciting Mental Health Trust that has been rated OUTSTANDING by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff pride themselves on compassion, teamwork, and resilience.
We have an ethos of multidisciplinary working, which is reflected within the Team with access to Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, and Psychology, as well as psychiatric and nursing interventions.
The successful applicant will be based at Broom Street, for patients with learning disabilities and/or complex needs.
This experience will give the post holder an excellent opportunity to develop their leadership and management skills as well as building clinical expertise that will enhance and broaden their clinical skills within a Learning Disability Team.
Key Duties/Responsibilities
1. Undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
2. Provide a holistic, physiotherapeutic assessment of clients with Learning Disabilities. These clients may present with complex physical, emotional, and psychological needs as a result of their diagnosis.
3. Provide a physiotherapeutic diagnosis, to develop and deliver individualized treatment programmes and make appropriate referrals to other disciplines.
4. Hold responsibility for a defined clinical area and own caseload, working with supervision. Access to advice and support from senior physiotherapists is available, and clinical work will be routinely evaluated by senior staff. Supervision with a designated Band 6 physiotherapist takes the form of formal training, reflective practice, and clinical reasoning.
5. Be a source of knowledge for clients, relatives, and colleagues of all disciplines within the Trust. The post holder works closely with all members of the multidisciplinary team to provide specialist input to a planned programme of coordinated care including appropriate and timely discharge.
6. Manage clinical risk within own patient caseload.
7. Undertake a comprehensive assessment of clients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multiple pathologies.
8. Use clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment techniques to provide an accurate physiotherapeutic diagnosis of their condition.
9. Plan and provide both group and individual physiotherapy treatment programmes incorporating client-focused goals and outcomes and ensure appropriate discharge planning.
10. Evaluate patient progress and reassess and alter treatment programmes if required.
11. Develop comprehensive discharge plans in collaboration with the clients, carers, and the appropriate multi-disciplinary team members.
12. Ensure that high standards of documentation are maintained, meeting professional and departmental standards.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi, and trans communities.
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