Job Description
Physiotherapist
Location: Hitchin
Salary : £39454.72
Hours of work – 17 hours per week
Are you an experienced clinical team leader who wants a new challenge in your career? Join our team and take overall responsibility for the effective management of all aspects of the service.
Why Minerva?
As one of the UK’s leading healthcare providers, we support NHS Trusts, Schools, Prisons, Nursing Homes, Private Hospitals, Mental Health Organisations with good quality healthcare staff and have fantastic testimonials from our clients who have worked with us.
Benefits
* A competitive salary of £39,454.72 per annum FTE
* 33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
* Excellent training and support
* Group life assurance
* Company Pension
* Eye voucher scheme
* Long service and staff awards
* Free parking
* Nationwide employee staff discounts incl. eating out and shopping
* Blue Light Card: provides those in the NHS, emergency services, social care sector and armed forces with discounts online and in-store
* Who we are looking for:
o • Diploma/BSc in Physiotherapy
o • Current and valid Registration with Health & Care Professions Council
o • Current registration with professional body (e.g. CSP)
o • Evidence of Continued Professional Development
o • Use of evidence based practice and outcome measures
o • Knowledge and application of physiotherapy assessments and interventions using clinical reasoning
o • An ability to work autonomously and to set own and support others’ priorities
o • An ability to confidently assess and manage risk in relation to physical performance
About the role:
• Responsible for assessment of service user needs in relation particularly to optimising independence and physical function, and symptom control
• Responsible to devise a formal plan for families and carers to provide physiotherapy interventions as part of overall care
• To promote choice in all aspects of clinical practice reviewing and making suggestions to enhance the service user experience and enabling concerns and complaints to be raised freely by service user and their representatives
• To liaise and communicate with other health and social care professionals and volunteers in the planning and delivery of physiotherapy
• To ensure appropriate prescription, provision and maintenance of equipment within available resources
• To ensure that up to date written and electronic records are maintained in accordance with Professional and company standards, and that sensitive information is held securely
• To demonstrate clinical leadership and promote clinical supervision. To share knowledge and expertise with other staff through formal and informal teaching
• Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally taking on reasonable additional tasks
About the company:
You will be working for a leading charity helping people to thrive after a brain injury. They provide innovative rehabilitation and ongoing support to ensure life after a brain injury can be a life well-lived. They support people living with acquired brain injuries and other neurological conditions in the UK to access the best specialist rehabilitation available to achieve their goals and exceed expectations.