Community Physiotherapist

Job summary

We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Physiotherapist to join our Community Physiotherapy Team covering Havant and Waterlooville.

This role is ideal for a motivated and compassionate physiotherapist keen to develop their clinical skills in a supportive community setting. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, delivering person centred physiotherapy to patients in their own homes and community environments, while managing your own caseload with a range of complexities under the guidance of senior colleagues.

The post involves working collaboratively with health and social care professionals to promote rehabilitation, independence, admission avoidance, and safe discharge planning, maintaining accurate clinical documentation, and contributing to service development, audit, and quality improvement. We offer regular supervision and access to training to support your professional development, and we are looking for an HCPC registered physiotherapist with strong communication skills, enthusiasm for community rehabilitation, and a commitment to high quality, evidence based care.

Please note you must have a full driving licence and access to a car as this role involves working with patients in their homes.

Main duties of the job

Working within professional guidelines and accountability, the post-holder will have responsibility for the management of a defined community caseload (via Nursing, Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy interventions) for a group of GP Practices as part of the Integrated Care Team.

Assess, plan and implement Occupational Therapy / Physiotherapy to a designated caseload and adapt intervention to meet client needs:

• E.g., therapeutic handling
• Equipment assessment and Provision
• Participation in treatment activity
• Dealing with distressing / sensitive issues

To ensure patients and carers are an integral part of their treatment planning and goal setting.

To be responsible for assessment, prescription and fitting of equipment, whilst demonstrating an awareness of local cost implications.

To ensure that up to date written and electronic records, reports and activity data are maintained in accordance with professional and Trust standards.

To provide intervention in a variety of environments, e.g., client's home, hospital / healthcare settings, schools, work environment to meet client needs.

To take part in procedures to ensure smooth running of the team such as patient registration, liaison reporting and recording data etc.

To adhere to national and local manual handling guidelines.

To support the work of the registered practitioners in the team. To prepare patients for and assist with clinical / therapeutic activities or treatments.

Job responsibilities

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence