Vacancies

Band 5 Community Physiotherapist

Main Responsibility

This post is responsible for

•    To be responsible for own case load, evaluation of interventions and documentation alongside CSP standard.

•    To act as a role model, ensuring high quality, professional standards are maintained at all times.

•    To work within integrated multi-professional team.

•    To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning and implementing physiotherapy treatment and care to patients within professional guidelines, with support of specialist team member’s and the team coordinator.

•    To undertake assessments, care planning and evaluation.

•    Wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure that patient’s receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.

•    To keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.

•    To support the Band 6 with the day to day planning of a high quality Physiotherapy service.

•    Organise and manage own time allocating work appropriately in order to achieve the patient’s goals.

•    To manage risks in divers and sometimes challenging environments.

•    To ensure that record keeping is to a consistently high standard.

•    The post holder will interact with all members of nursing, therapy, medical and other allied professionals related to community teams and other relevant agencies.

Please see the attached Job description for the full list of responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

•    MCSP Dip PT / BSc / BSc (Hons) PT 

•    Registered as a Physiotherapist with the Health and Care Professionals Council

•    To possess a current, valid full driving licence and suitably insured

•    Broad range of clinical experience through student placements

•    Evidence of continuing professional development

•    Experience of applying research-based information to practice

•    Competence in a wide range of physiotherapy skills 

•    I.T. literate

•    Typing / data inputting skills for accessing patient information

•    To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds

•    To be able to work flexibly and sensitively

•    Wide range of interpersonal and communication skills

•    Undertake specific physiotherapy tasks requiring precision and/or intense concentration. Undertaking complex physiotherapy skills

•    Manual handling skills and experience

•    Ability to sensitively inform service users on emotional issues.

•    To be flexible and adaptable

•    Organisational & time management skills

•    Clinical reasoning skills

•    The ability to identify and act upon adverse clinical signs

•    The ability to work effectively in a team environment

•    The ability to demonstrate an understanding of the NHS and challenges facing physiotherapy

•    Ability to move between sites in the Swindon and Wiltshire area

•    Driven to achieve

•    Self-motivated

•    Good time management

•    Willing to work in other areas of HCRG as and when required to do so.

You will have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

Package Description

As a Band 5 Community Physiotherapist you’ll be part of our valued Amesbury Community team.

You will feel valued as a Community Physiotherapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• AFC Band 5 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
• Plentiful on site-parking
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise 
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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