Senior Community Physiotherapist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly specialist Physiotherapist to be part of our Community Rehabilitation team within Ealing Short Term Rehabilitation.

You will be able to provide decisive and effective therapy input and will demonstrate leadership qualities, excellent communication skills and a flexible approach when working under pressure. You will be passionate about the value of community rehabilitation and preventing hospital admissions.

The successful candidate will be an experienced clinical leader with the ability to motivate and inspire others.  They will have a proven track record of providing expectational care to service users and carers while supporting staff to deliver an excellent service.

If you are a driven, inspirational leader with a collaborative approach, we want to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

As a senior member of the Therapy Team, you will be expected to be a practitioner with a broad range of clinical competencies able to adapt to a variety of clinical circumstances.

You will be part of a community team where your proven ability to make high level clinical decisions will aid patient recovery and independence.

You will provide complex assessments and make high impact clinical decisions. You will be expected to work autonomously whilst drawing assistance from other colleagues in primary and secondary care.

You will use evidence based principles/current best practise and specialist skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate clinical interventions and to ensure that all members of your team do so accordingly.

Your exceptional caseload management and communication skills will enable you to prioritise patient care and delegate to junior members of your team.

You will be expected to be a highly skilled Physiotherapist who is approachable, flexible, an excellent communicator, and able to adapt to the needs of both patients and service.

This post will give  opportunity to experience a wealth of learning and development. You will work alongside and show leadership in a responsive dynamic MDT who put high quality, patient centred care at the heart of what they do.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A full job description and person specification is attached. Please refer to the document for description of main responsibilities.

Job Summary

• To provide a highly skilled Physiotherapy assessment and treatment for patients with complex conditions who are referred to the service.
• To plan, implement, evaluate treatment and management programmes to ensure the identified needs of the individual are met at all stages of the rehabilitation process or disease progression on a regular basis, further to educate and advise patients, their families and carers in order to facilitate self-management of their condition and optimise their rehabilitation potential and quality of life.
• To act as a source of expertise on the management of the complex disability and provide an advisory service to Physiotherapy colleagues, other health and social care professionals, GPs, and other involved agencies.
• To actively participate and support the development of new initiatives within ECP and CNWL.
• To actively support the continuing professional development of all staff, by providing expert  advice and teaching.
• To manage, assist and supervise the junior staff.
• Smooth running and day-to-day management of the community therapy service.