Senior Physiotherapist - Frailty Inpatients

Wye Valley NHS Trust

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proactive band 6 Frailty Physiotherapist to join our team. Our friendly and dynamic team will provide the perfect opportunity for a physiotherapist to develop and further their inpatient clinical skills within this complex and developing speciality.

This is a new and inspiring time for the frailty speciality as we have recently moved into a new purpose built hospital facility, meaning there is scope for development of the service and team. The post holder will maintain a clinical caseload of patients, providing specialist assessment and treatment of patients as part of the multi-disciplinary frailty team. Our aim is always to assist with discharging patients home first of all, being able to sign-post to appropriate services and also referring on to community teams. The post holder will need to be forward thinking, approachable, innovative and have excellent communication and organisational skills.

The successful candidate will play an active part in falls prevention and the promotion of reducing Hospital Acquired Functional Decline, as well as playing a part in the on-going in-service training, student education and clinical supervision.

This is a permanent position working 30 hours per week. CPD is supported, and the candidate will play an active part in training, teaching and supervision.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of the therapy and wider multidisciplinary team, Band 6 senior therapists use specialist skills in a variety of areas to provide direct high quality and effective therapeutic care and support to patients.

Within the scope of the role, the post holder will independently plan, complete specialist assessment and deliver interventions. They will be responsible for independently managing their own patient caseload, demonstrating clinical autonomy, specialist clinical reasoning, prioritisation and manage competing demands. Supervision is clear and direct from senior therapy staff and includes formal training, supervised sessions, advice and support.

The post holder will initiate and contribute to service development, demonstrate self-development and will be responsible for supervision of others and delegate appropriate tasks to registered and non-registered staff. The band 6 senior therapist will be required to participate in 7 day working and for some physiotherapists to join the on call rota once competencies have been achieved.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Date posted

21 March 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£33,706 to £40,588 a year pa, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

229-IC-5124664

Job locations

Hereford County Hospital

Hereford

HR1 2ER

Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
HCPC registered
Post Graduate specialist qualification/significant post graduate experience

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Broad and specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions
Demonstration of knowledge of core and specialist Therapy skills
Evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area
Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping
Computer Skills including word processing and e-mail
Able to make independent, sound, clinical decisions and problem solve
Able to manage busy case load and prioritise

Experience

Essential

NHS or equivalent experience e.g. in inpatient areas, acute or community or community services
Experience of using/fitting adaptive equipment

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
HCPC registered
Post Graduate specialist qualification/significant post graduate experience

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Broad and specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions
Demonstration of knowledge of core and specialist Therapy skills
Evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area
Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping
Computer Skills including word processing and e-mail
Able to make independent, sound, clinical decisions and problem solve
Able to manage busy case load and prioritise

Experience

Essential

NHS or equivalent experience e.g. in inpatient areas, acute or community or community services
Experience of using/fitting adaptive equipment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.