Senior Community Physiotherapist Opportunity in North Community Therapy Team
Are you ready to progress your physiotherapy career? Join our dynamic North Community Therapy Team as a Senior Community Physiotherapist, where you'll deliver holistic, personalized, therapeutic care that makes a meaningful impact on people’s lives.
Why Join Us?
We're offering exciting roles in our Horsham/Crawley team, where you'll be part of well-established, Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) across vibrant local communities.
What We Offer:
• Flexible Work Schedule: Our teams operate 365 days a year, from 8 am to 8 pm, ensuring you have the flexibility to balance your professional and personal life.
• Career Development: Whether you're an experienced Band 6 Physiotherapist or looking to advance from a Band 5 role, we provide robust support to help you thrive.
• Holistic Care: You'll conduct specialist assessments and reviews aimed at improving or maintaining quality of life. Help individuals take control of their health with tailored rehabilitation interventions, personalized care planning, and goal setting.
• Crisis Intervention: Provide urgent responses to minimize crises and prevent hospital admissions, offering emergency interventions that truly make a difference.
• Integrated Services: Enhance access to services through a coordinated MDT approach, ensuring comprehensive care for our community members.
Your Role:
• Patient Care: Conduct assessments and plan treatments for patients with diverse conditions, making appropriate referrals to our partners.
• Leadership: Contribute to the MDT by allocating visits and supporting clinical and operational leads. You'll also supervise and develop colleagues, enhancing both clinical and non-clinical skills across the four pillars of practice.
• Mobility: A full UK driving license and access to your own car is essential as you'll cover various geographic areas within the CTT North service provision (Horsham, Crawley and Mid-Sussex).
• Service development and Quality Improvement: As a growing and developing service, there are many exciting opportunities to participate in creating and implementing change and utilising new skills. This can be supported by additional training and professional development opportunities.
Why Our Trust?
Our Trust is dedicated to supporting your work/life balance with flexible working options and tailored support for advancing your clinical practice and leadership skills. We foster a supportive, positive environment where you can grow professionally and personally. There are numerous Wellbeing and staff support services available to support a healthy work life balance.
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• EMBRACE, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+and Religion Spirituality and Belief staff networks
• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
You'll engage in both proactive community rehabilitation and urgent care pathways, making a real impact every day.
Please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification for a greater breakdown of main responsibilities and expectations of role.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Feb 2025