Bank PhysiotherapistNHS
Job summary
This role offers an excellent opportunity to work across the South Devon Health Community, providing high-quality physiotherapy care in a wide variety of clinical settings. These include ward environments, outpatient departments, intermediate care facilities, community locations, and patients' own homes.
As a member of the Bank team, the post holder will be required to work flexibly across different services and teams. This position is well suited to a confident and adaptable physiotherapist who is able to work independently, while also engaging proactively with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team.
Benefits of the Role
- Flexible working to support work-life balance
- Access to the Trust's training programmes and learning resources
- Ongoing support and professional guidance from experienced colleagues
- A rewarding role making a meaningful difference by supporting patients through recovery and their return to health and independence
This role provides a valuable opportunity to broaden clinical experience, develop professionally, and make a meaningful contribution to patient care within a supportive and collaborative health community.
Save the date - Please note that should you be successful in the shortlisting process you will be invited to attend an interview on the 28th September. Further details to follow.
Main duties of the job
- To providetimelyPhysiotherapy assessment and treatment interventions to patients presenting across a variety of clinical specialities. Bank work placement could be across any of the following clinical care settings: MSK outpatients, acute and community inpatient settings including neuro and community settings including Intermediate care, Neuro and Community Physiotherapy
- To utilise clinical reasoning to support admission avoidance, early mobilisation, and safe, effective discharge planning.
- To support patient flow by providing rapid access to physiotherapy interventions that promote recovery, independence, and safe transition home or to onward care from inpatient settings.
- To work within the legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment
- To providesupport to Band 3/4/5's and students as isrequired
- You willprovide senior leadership to their specialist area and deputise for the Band 7in their absence, and take operational management of the team,allocatingand organising the work to meet daily priorities.
Job description
- To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, including professional and legal accountability and managing clinical risk for all aspects of own work. Some aspects of work will involve delivery of the care as part of a multidisciplinary team. In most cases to be the sole health professional with responsibility for that patients episode of care.
- To undertake advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse or complex physical, psychological,cognitiveand behavioural conditionsin order toprovidean accuratediagnosis and prognosis. To formulate and deliver individualised physiotherapy treatment programmes, including patient education, provision of exercise (individual/group), and other alternative options. This includes theappropriate selectionof referrals for inclusion in a range of treatment programmes, one to onesessionsusing advanced treatment options, advanced communication,questioningand reasoning skills.
- To undertake,as directed,collection of data for use in service audit and research projects. To manage and undertake research in specific areas of clinical practice and service delivery using a range of research methodologies as part of MDT audit and departmental research initiatives. To make recommendations to clinical lead/manager of service, for changes to team practice. To implement specific changes to practice asrequired.
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