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.
Main duties of the job
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: Participate in creating and implementing change and utilising new skills, 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.
About us
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.
Job Responsibilities
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Professional Registration
* Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy.
* Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Physiotherapist.
* Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality.
* Training in student education.
Experience
* Substantial relevant post-qualification experience covering a broad range.
* Experience of working within a relevant specialist area.
* Experience of interdisciplinary working.
* Experience of supervising junior staff, assistants and students.
* Experience of independently managing a clinical caseload.
* Experience at contributing to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework.
* Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems.
* Experience within specialism underpinned by theory and specific therapeutic knowledge.
* Experience of using assessment tools relevant to client group.
Skills and Knowledge
* Able to demonstrate competency in a range of clinical skills.
* Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individuals.
* Able to plan and prioritise own workload efficiently.
* Able to delegate work to others.
* Good numeracy, literacy and IT skills.
* Promotes choice and independence in undertaking patient care.
* Able to demonstrate advanced communication and negotiation skills.
* Able to demonstrate the application of research-based practice.
* Up to date knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the clinical setting.
* Up to date knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management.
* Able to give supervision and appraisal of junior staff.
* Up to date knowledge of professional code of conduct.
* Able to demonstrate knowledge / understanding of boundaries of role.
* Able to demonstrate how to reflect and learn from situations and identify difficulties as challenges to then work with others to identify solutions.
* Able to demonstrate co-operative team working and awareness of the roles of other professionals.
* Able to demonstrate a commitment to learning and development with documented evidence of CPD.
Other Requirements
* Car driver (Valid Driving License for use in the UK).
* Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role.
* Access to a vehicle for work purposes.
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.
Operational Lead Community Therapy Team North
£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum/pro-rata
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