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Main area: Adult Community Physical Health Services
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 277-7141589-CPH
Site: Memorial Hospital, Town Woolwich
Salary: £42,939 - £50,697 pa inc
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
Specialist Physiotherapist, Band 6, Permanent; 37.5 hours per week
** PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY **
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
The Greenwich Community Rehabilitation and Short Term Assessment Team are seeking an enthusiastic Physiotherapist to join our team. The team comprises Occupational therapists, Physiotherapists, Social Care Staff, and Therapy Assistant Practitioners. The service works with acute hospitals to provide a seamless pathway to support safe and proactive discharge. The service is well established and was developed to work with adults within their home and in clinics, to enable them to realize their potential and functional independence and improve quality of life with a view to promoting healthy and active aging.
The Community Rehab Service works as an integrated team alongside Reablement, Falls Prevention, and the Greenwich Neuro Rehabilitation Team.
Main duties of the job
The Community Rehabilitation and Short Term Assessment Team provides rehabilitation, including Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, to adult clients living in the borough of Greenwich, across various community settings and in their homes. This service is integrated with social care. The physiotherapist will work as part of the multidisciplinary Integrated Team to meet the rehabilitation needs of the service users and their carers, enhancing independence, safety, and quality of life; maintaining people in their own home environments in conjunction with Social Care colleagues.
* To provide Physiotherapy input to clients referred to CRSTAT.
* To practice within the multidisciplinary team as an autonomous practitioner, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice.
* To work in line with the Trust objectives for community practice.
Working for our organisation
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, 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 Listen
* We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Maintain own Community caseload working as an autonomous practitioner.
* Undertake holistic assessments in order to develop patient-centred evidence-based goal interventions.
* To work with the wider multidisciplinary team to 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 rehabilitation, independence, and safety.
* Maintain effective multidisciplinary communications in order to ensure that treatment goals are met and a high-quality service is provided to patients.
* 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.
* Work collaboratively with the acute sector and other rehab teams to provide a seamless rehabilitation pathway.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree in physiotherapy
* Registered HCPC
* Evidence of up-to-date CPD and short courses
Skills
* Evidence of continual professional development
Skills/Knowledge/Experience
* Demonstrates a range of knowledge on different aspects of physiotherapy
* Working in MDT
* Supervising students/RA
Additional Skills
* Car driver and owner
Experience
* 1 year post-graduate experience
* Community experience
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.
We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.
Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process. We also discourage overuse of AI during the application process because this can negatively impact the quality of your application and may hinder your chances of being shortlisted. Thank you.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high volume of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
Name: Raj Masina
Job title: Service Lead for Assessment and Rehabilitation
Email address: r.masina@nhs.net
Telephone number: 020 8836 8631
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