Highly Specialised Physiotherapist - CR-STAT

Job overview

***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post***

Join our dynamic, multidisciplinary team delivering specialist rehabilitation across Greenwich. We support adults with complex needs, providing evidence-based, person-centred care in community settings. As a Band 7 Physiotherapist, you’ll lead clinical practice, supervise junior staff, and contribute to service development. You’ll need advanced rehabilitation skills, excellent communication, and a passion for empowering patients to achieve their goals. We offer ongoing CPD and the opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives.

Main duties of the job

To provide an effective and efficient specialist Physiotherapy service to adults who have a rehabilitation needs and potential. To manage a specialist caseload, including those with complex needs. Duties will include assessment, diagnosis, and therapy, planning therapy programmes and discharging patients.  To work as a lone and autonomous practitioner in the community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Undertake highly skilled/developed physiotherapy assessments to determine, develop and implement individual care/treatment plans for patients some of whom may have complex needs, which may require advanced skills.
• To maintain up-to-date clinical written records using computerised database in accordance with local and professional standards; and also writing comprehensive discharge and progress reports to medical referrers.
• To utilise developed communication and teaching skills to educate the diverse and multicultural population in a range of disease specific physiotherapeutic techniques, principals and guidelines
• To provide highly specialist training and education programmes for medical colleagues allied health care professionals, rehabilitation assistants, and health care assistants, in the form of lectures, tutorials and presentations
• To maintain continuing professional development by participating in regular in service training, supervision, reflective practice and attending study days and training, giving feedback to the team where appropriate to disseminate learning
• To provide caseload supervision and allocation to the rehabilitation assistants, band 5 and 6 physiotherapists, undergraduate and graduate physiotherapy students in conjunction with colleagues.
• To actively participate in the induction and development of new members of the CAR team.
• To attend statutory training annually
• To maintain competency and proficiency in manually handling people and therapeutic manual handling
• To flexibly plan and organise own time

• To achieve the effective daily management of a caseload of clients, including prioritising clinical work and balancing other client related and professional duties
• To provide statistical information as required in a timely manner
• To keep up-to-date statistics in accordance with service requirements
• To be responsible for any organisational tasks related to the post
• To be flexible in the undertaking of any other duties as requested by line managers to meet the changing needs of the service
• To attend service and trust meetings and case conferences as required

For full details of job description & responsibilities please see attached document