Physiotherapist - Weight Management

Education/Training/Qualifications
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Job Overview

• Conduct initial assessments of patients referred to the physiotherapy pathway, identifying individual needs and creating tailored treatment plans focused on increasing daily activity.
• Design, deliver, and adapt specialist care programmes for patients with complex medical and social needs, integrating weight management and health-related exercise advice.
• Provide compassionate, holistic, and non-judgemental care aligned with the ethos of the lifestyle programme, supporting clients through behaviour change and lifestyle modification.
• Facilitate educational group sessions in community settings, promoting increased physical activity and sustainable lifestyle changes.
• Monitor and evaluate physiotherapy programmes to ensure optimal patient outcomes, contributing to service evaluation and design.

Main duties of the job

• Patient outcomes, contributing to service evaluation and design.
• Engage in clinical research and audit activities to maintain evidence-based practice and inform service development.
• Support the Service Manager in supervising and training junior and non-registered staff, ensuring clarity of roles and competence in delegated duties.
• Promote a culture of accountability and clinical governance across the team.
• Deliver expert clinical care for patients living with obesity, including advanced musculoskeletal assessments and autonomous decision-making.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across the BNSSG network to ensure integrated care delivery.

Working for our organisation

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building  are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous highly specialist physiotherapy practitioner
• To demonstrate physical ability to carry out assessment and interventions including manual therapy techniques and therapeutic handling
• To perform highly specialist physio therapeutic examination and assessment of patients with diverse musculoskeletal complex physical and psychological conditions and provide a diagnosis using appropriate physiotherapy tools based upon advanced theoretical knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology often in situations where conflicting evidence is present
• To set appropriate realistic and individualised therapy goals
• To develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme based on the above
• To constantly re-examine the patients response to treatment and modify programme accordingly. Examination/assessment skills to include communication, physical, manual and analytical/evaluative abilities to a very high standard
• To flexibly plan and organise own time and lead on organisation of team rota to include patient care, training, supervision and meetings
• To demonstrate physical ability to carry out physiotherapy assessment and interventions including manual therapy techniques and therapeutic handling
• To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory sensory skills for assessment and manual treatment of patients
• To be able to motivate and educate others through advanced communication skills, with the benefit of verbal and non-verbal skills, using written and…