A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist to join our New Band 6 rotations. The rotations currently include:
1. Community Falls Prevention Service
2. Inpatient Frailty Team (including inpatient falls)
3. Community Physiotherapy
As part of the Falls Prevention Service, a therapy-led team, the post-holder will work between both an outpatient clinic setting and in the community providing assessment and interventions to reduce risk of falls, enhance independence and quality of life.
Within the Inpatient Frailty Service, the post holder will provide specialist assessment and treatment for patients as part of a multi-disciplinary team, working at the County Hospital.
The Community Physiotherapy post is a countywide service that provides support to individuals in their own homes, including admission avoidance, discharge to assess, and community rehabilitation work.
The post holder will maintain their own clinical caseload and have the opportunity to play an active part in the development and daily running of the services, including in-service training, student education, clinical supervision, and health and service promotion.
Experience in falls prevention and frailty, or a breadth of experience in a range of clinical areas, is essential in this role, alongside a high standard of clinical and communication skills, and the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of the therapy and wider multidisciplinary team, Band 6 senior therapists use specialist skills in a variety of areas to provide direct high quality and effective therapeutic care and support to patients.
Within the scope of the role, the post holder will independently plan, complete specialist assessment and deliver interventions. They will be responsible for independently managing their own patient caseload, demonstrating clinical autonomy, specialist clinical reasoning, prioritization, and managing competing demands. Supervision is clear and direct from senior therapy staff and includes formal training, supervised sessions, advice, and support.
The post holder will initiate and contribute to service development, demonstrate self-development, and will be responsible for supervision of others and delegate appropriate tasks to registered and non-registered staff. The Band 6 senior therapist will be required to participate in 7-day working and for physiotherapists to join the on-call rota once competencies have been achieved.
These posts will require you to have access to a car for work purposes.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster, and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward-looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Job responsibilities
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
* Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
* HCPC registered
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
* Broad and specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions
* Demonstration of knowledge of core and specialist Therapy skills
* Evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area
* Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments, and record keeping
Experience
* NHS or equivalent experience e.g. in inpatient areas, acute or community services
* Experience of using/fitting adaptive equipment
* Community experience
* Frailty experience
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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