Location: Exeter, EX2 5AF
Salary: £37338.00 to £44962.00
Date posted: 31st March 2025
Closing date: 14th April 2025
Joining the DPT bank is a brilliant opportunity to diversify your skill set and gain experience in working with adults with a learning disability; developing your knowledge of reasonable adjustments, hydrotherapy, postural management and specialist equipment. In service training and support will be provided. There may also be scope for shifts within our mental health settings in the future.
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic physiotherapist with excellent communication skills and experience in working with complex physical health needs. Experience of working with people with learning disabilities is desirable but not essential if you have the required transferable skills.
These hours have arisen at an exciting time of change within our learning disability service. There are 6 Specialist Health Community Learning Disabilities Teams covering Devon with bases in Barnstaple, Tiverton, Okehampton, Exeter, Honiton, Newton Abbot and Totnes. The teams provide a client-focused community-based service to adults with a learning disability and complex health needs which cannot be met by mainstream services.
As well as working within the Specialist Health Community Learning Disability Teams, you will be a part of the Devon wide specialist physiotherapy team. We are a Monday to Friday 9-5 service, with no on call demands. Flexible and hybrid working available.
Main duties of the job
You will have responsibility for a caseload and be required to work confidently with adults with complex postural and physical needs, completing thorough assessments and providing evidence-based treatment programmes as well as training family and carers in 24 hour postural management. There will be opportunities to participate in hydrotherapy, postural management clinics and to work closely with senior physiotherapists, physiotherapy assistants and students.
About us
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of co-production, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.
Job responsibilities
As a physiotherapist within the Specialist Health Community Learning Disability Teams, the post holder will:
* Provide specialist physiotherapy for adults with a learning disability where access to generic physiotherapy treatment is not appropriate for them.
* Use Physiotherapy skills to treat complex musculoskeletal physical problems which often occur in combination with other cognitive and/or sensory disabilities.
* Improve mobility for people with physical disabilities through the assessment and provision of specialist equipment e.g. wheelchairs, postural support systems and other assistive technologies.
* Work closely with other multi-disciplinary team members, carers and services to enable community inclusion and promote independence through reducing reliance on paid support.
* Be an active member of the multi-disciplinary and physiotherapy team and contribute appropriately to all service requirements and developments.
* Ensure safe practice and adherence to Safeguarding policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of working with people with communication difficulties.
* Experience in managing a diverse workload.
* Previous community experience.
* Student supervision.
* Administration of standardised assessments.
* Experience of working with adults with learning disabilities.
Qualifications
* Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy.
* Good standard of literacy and numeracy.
* Valid State registration with the Health Professions Council.
* Evidence of ongoing training and development in the theory and practice of Physiotherapy.
* Further postgraduate training short specialist courses.
Knowledge and Skills
* Clear understanding of the role of Physiotherapy within a multidisciplinary team.
* Knowledge of theories and methods of practice specific to people with learning disabilities.
* Sound knowledge and application of Physiotherapy Theory.
* An understanding of government policy with regard to services for people with learning disabilities.
* Ability to work autonomously, seeking guidance as necessary.
* Ability to be independently mobile across a geographical area.
* Ability to work effectively under rapidly changing and demanding conditions with occasional interruptions.
* Use of total Communication Multimedia/IT skills.
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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