Are you a Physio that enjoys thinking outside of the box, exploring creative ways to engage your patients with their physio goals? If this is you, read more about what a physio role working with people with learning disabilities could offer you.
When you're working with people with learning disabilities, every day is different, and you have the freedom to find imaginative ways to work with your patients.
Your day might include supporting a young person as they move from school to college or helping an adult to maintain their independence and achieve their personal goals.
From keeping mobile to supportive seating, or rehabilitation following an injury, you will have a varied caseload including rehabilitation, orthopaedics, neurology, falls and mobility, complex postural management.
Are you interested in taking the therapeutic principles of exercise and posture and using your skill and imagination to enable adults to achieve their independence? You will access support and training to become specialised in assessing posture and providing therapeutic interventions such as sleep systems, specialist walking aids and seating.
Experience working with people with learning disabilities is desirable but not essential. Your skills as a Physiotherapist are transferable, and with the support of our team of experienced Physiotherapists and technical instructors to guide you, we will ensure you have the tools necessary.
Main duties of the job
* To work as a specialist clinician to utilise, develop and enhance Physiotherapy clinical and professional skills within the Service to deliver high standards of practice.
* To provide specialist Physiotherapy assessment and treatment to patients within a multi-disciplinary format in clinical care pathways.
* To take a lead in developing the Service. This involves promoting high quality clinical practice and ensuring professional standards are maintained in the workplace.
* To deliver a specialist Physiotherapy Service to patients within a variety of settings, requiring flexibility/adaptability in recognising the complexity of these environments to maximise their abilities and opportunities for occupational wellbeing.
* To work in partnership with team leads, managers and other practitioners in the effective management of referrals, case prioritisation and care co-ordination within clinical care pathways.
* To work effectively with members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team and other related agencies to ensure a needs-led service is maintained.
* To attend and or lead clinical case reviews and present appropriate Physiotherapy feedback accordingly.
* To maintain accurate and timely patient records in the electronic patient record and to fulfil record keeping standards in accordance with Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust policy, CSP and HCPC.
About us
We may close the advert early if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs, the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications
* Please review the attached job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification.
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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