Senior Community Physiotherapist

Job overview

Providing care to a multicultural and diverse population, to deliver a high standard of physiotherapy care to patients and their carers.

To perform comprehensive physiotherapy assessment of people with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions. To use this to provide a clinical diagnosis and deliver an individualised treatment program.

To hold responsibility for your own caseload and, working without direct supervision, together with the other members of the MDT, deliver a comprehensive package of care to patients and their carers. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case review and case conferences. To support more junior members of staff and provide comprehensive clinical supervision.

To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.

With support from more senior staff, to undertake evidence-based audit and/or research projects to further own teams and clinical practice. Make recommendations to clinical lead/manager of service for changes to practice by the team. May contribute to the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service protocols.

To be aware of and to highlight to your line manager any clinical governance issues pertaining to your role and practice.

To contribute to the delivery of health promotion activities within the service and wider Trust initiatives.

Main duties of the job

Providing care to a multi cultural and diverse population, to deliver a high standard of physiotherapy care to patients and their carers.

To hold responsibility for your own caseload and, working without direct supervision but together with the other members of the MDT, deliver a comprehensive package of care to patients and their carers. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case review and case conferences. To support more junior members of staff and provide comprehensive clinical supervision.

With support from more senior staff, to undertake evidence-based audit and or research projects to further own and teams clinical practice. Make recommendations to clinical lead/manager of service for changes to practice by the team. May contribute to the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service protocols.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See job description and person specification attached to this job advert. All details included in this document.

To perform comprehensive physiotherapy assessment of patients who are presenting with complex physical and psychological conditions, to provide a clinical diagnosis of their physiotherapy problems and develop and deliver an individualised treatment program. To ensure all physiotherapy assessment are completed within agreed timescales. To support the B8a with the day-to-day organisation of the Community physiotherapy service and to manage a designated caseload, delivering care according the service specification requirements. To support and educate patients and carers in managing complex physiotherapy/rehabilitation needs for managing a community caseload. To work closely with other agencies e.g. specialist equipment services, social services voluntary sector and private agencies to ensure physiotherapy treatment is fully integrated into the patients care programs where applicable. To hold full responsibility for own caseload of patients, working without direct supervision. Own supervision takes the form of regular formal training with peers, peer review and case conferences. Self-directed access to advice and support from a higher grade is available, as required, clinical work is not routinely evaluated. To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner. To provide clinical supervision and support to less experienced physiotherapy staff, rehab assistants, technical Instructors and students on placement and to support training and supervision of others in the MDT team.

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.