Specialist Physiotherapist

Overview

Join our dynamic, integrated team in Greenwich and make a real impact supporting patients in the community (CR-STAT team). Help people regain independence and stay safely at home.

• Deliver rehab in community settings
• Support safe discharges in collaboration with the MDT
• Provide specialist physiotherapy across a varied caseload
• Conduct home visits across the borough
• Work autonomously within a supportive team
• Align care with the Trust's community healthcare goals
• Undertake client assessment using standardised assessment tools and/or the single assessment process
• Undertake holistic assessments and standardised falls assessment tools to develop a multidisciplinary care plan
• Work with the wider multidisciplinary team to devise a holistic care plan and ensure all health and social needs are met to reduce risks and maintain independence
• Recommend appropriate interventions to promote independence and safety
• Provide physiotherapy assessment as an autonomous and lone practitioner to clients, utilising effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence based practice to develop individual care plans
• Maintain effective multidisciplinary communications to ensure treatment goals are met and a high quality service is provided to clients
• Ensure safe, appropriate and effective provision, installation and demonstration of equipment and further develop knowledge of minor/major adaptation provision and non-stock equipment availability and use
• Contribute to meeting performance targets for the organisation and be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care
• Accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients and organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time
• Support more junior staff to achieve a high standard of clinical care for patients under your management
• Undertake physiotherapist's assessments in the Discharge to assess unit as well as in clients' homes, in clinics and care homes as required
• Assess and treat a variety of conditions including orthopaedic surgery, mobility problems, equipment needs, falls and other common pathologies
• Compare and utilise appropriate treatment forms a range of options to develop, implement and re-assess physiotherapy care plans on an ongoing basis
• Demonstrate theoretical knowledge of multiple pathologies and impairments in the assessment of community clients often in the presence of incomplete or conflicting referral information to form accurate analyses and diagnoses
• Monitor, review and continually re-assess client care plans and objectives against outcome measures to facilitate modification of packages of care/targets as appropriate to enable achievement of their goals
• Seek guidance from more experienced physiotherapy colleagues regarding the treatment and management of clients with complex presentations
• Provide advice and education to client, carers and relatives based on clinical evidence
• Provide falls prevention/healthy living advice to staff and clients as required including care homes, intermediate care units and health promotion events
• Obtain client and/or carer consent prior to physiotherapy intervention in accordance with professional guidelines
• Ensure management of clinical risk within own caseload
• Exhibit developed manual handling knowledge and skills
• Prioritise own caseload clinically
• Communicate effectively, with empathy and reassurance with patients and carers to maximise potential and ensure an understanding of conditions
• Delegate and monitor clinical tasks to Therapy Assistant Practitioners and Rehab Assistants

• HCPC-registered Physiotherapist
• Experience or interest in community rehab/discharge planning
• Confident, collaborative, and patient-focused

• Diverse caseload and working environments
• Supportive, innovative MDT
• Ongoing CPD, supervision, and Trust benefits

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Disability Confident. A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.