We have a new opportunity for a Band 6 Senior Community Physiotherapist in Carlisle.
Here are the key details to consider for this role:
* Contract: 3 – 6 Month Contract
* Shift: Full-Time
* Days of Shift: Monday to Friday
* Time for Shift: 08:30am - 18:00pm, 37.5 hours per week
* Pay Rate: Up to £27 per hour
Duties:
* You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, supporting your colleagues to deliver effective health and social care to patients, communicating complex and sensitive information about patients, families, and carers.
* You will communicate across organisational boundaries and work as required with other bodies in the statutory, third, and voluntary sectors to ensure the health and social care needs of the individual are met appropriately and safely. This includes receiving and making referrals, requesting medical assistance, and joint working to develop services.
* To be legally accountable and responsible for all aspects of your work, including the management of patients in your care.
* To use clinical reasoning to assess, determine clinical diagnosis, and develop and implement effective treatment programmes and appropriate discharge plans for patients with increasingly complex conditions.
* To deliver physiotherapy assessment and intervention, in both an individual and group setting, including manual physiotherapy techniques and therapeutic handling.
* To work in clinical environments which may occasionally expose the therapist to risks via body secretions and infections within community and hospital settings (e.g., MRSA).
* To be responsible for the safe use of equipment and its allocation as appropriate.
* To transport patients and/or equipment around the locality as required.
* To delegate appropriate treatment tasks to unqualified staff and students.
* To contribute to and lead the supervision of unqualified staff and students.
* To instruct carers regarding the physical management of patients with specialised needs.
* To promote high professional standards of care and management by maintaining and developing knowledge of current clinical practice using the current evidence base.
Experience:
* CSP recognised Degree/Diploma or equivalent in Physiotherapy
* HCPC registered
* Previous experience of working at a Band 6 level
* Experience of working within a community setting
* Completion of core junior rotations (Respiratory/neurological/musculoskeletal/elderly care)
* Experience of working within the NHS for a minimum of 2 years
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