In-patient Physiotherapist

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative Physiotherapist to join our dynamic team of staff at Ysbyty Gwynedd. The successful applicant will be responsible for providing high quality assessments and interventions to patients who have complex rehabilitative needs.

The role will involve providing physiotherapy as part of the inpatient physiotherapy services within Ysbyty Gwynedd. We are looking for someone with considerable respiratory, neurology and ward-based rehabilitation experience who is keen to continue expanding and developing their skills. The ideal candidate will have rotational and/or static experience of working in acute and community ward environments. They must have the ability to effectively manage a complex caseload of patients, excellent time management skills and the ability to work under their own initiative. This post is designed to offer support, guidance and clinical leadership to more junior members of the team and will focus on developing excellence in practice and professional delivery. It will also support the out-of-hours service, both in delivery and operational governance.

This position will provide excellent opportunities to develop critical experience and leadership skills along with working within an extremely supportive and specialist team.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

• To carry out physiotherapy assessments and treatments; developing individualised therapeutic treatment programmes for a specialised caseload in the relevant clinical area.
• To ensure a high standard of care for each service user working with service users, families or carers, multi-agency teams and disciplines involved.
• To communicate with these service users, carers, agencies and other disciplines in an appropriate manner, often with sensitive information, diagnoses or outcomes.
• To supervise, teach and appraise peers, physiotherapists, physiotherapy assistants, technical instructors, students and other members of the multidisciplinary or multiagency teams.
• To train and supervise service users, families or carers and staff from other disciplines or agencies to carry out programmes of care devised by the therapist.
• To deputise and support the Clinical Team Leader as required in the daily management of the designated team.

If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Welsh language skills are desirable