Job Introduction
We are looking for a thoughtful, proactive and enthusiastic individual to join our friendly team within our Intermediate Care Rehabilitation Service in Luton, which was recently rated as ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The role would suit either a newly qualified Physiotherapist or a Physiotherapist looking to gain Community experience.
As a community Physiotherapist you will be working with the Luton Intermediate Care Community Rehab Team, assessing and treating patients referred by all our health and social care stakeholders, providing a high standard of care and physiotherapy services to patients with diverse and sometimes complex conditions predominantly in their own homes and occasionally within care homes, nursing homes and our inpatient rehab unit.
You will be responsible for providing specialised physiotherapy assessment, treatment and advice to an independent caseload, working closely with colleagues in this multi-disciplinary team and supported senior Physiotherapists across Therapy Services.
This is a full time opportunity working 37.5 hours across the week.
Main Responsibility
As a Community Physiotherapist, you will have access to supportive supervision and peer review from a well established team of Physiotherapists. Within this role you will:
- Perform comprehensive physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations, using clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment
- Formulate and deliver specialist individual physiotherapy treatment programmes based on a sound knowledge of evidence-based practice
- Formulate accurate prognoses and recommend best course of intervention
- Evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes if required
For a full list of responsibilities for this role, please see the attached job description
The Ideal Candidate
This is an opportunity to put your Degree in Physiotherapy to great use. You will have a full driving license with access to a car, you will be motivated, innovative and adaptable, with the ability to work flexibly across specialities as need arises, holding the HCPC (Physiotherapist) registration. With strong communication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach you will ensure delivery of positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.
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
We are looking for a Community Physiotherapist to join our Luton based team who have recently been rated as Outstanding by the CQC. You will be a valued member of the team, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 5 salary (£28,407 - £34,581) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for
- 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
- 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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