Rotational Physiotherapists

Job summary

A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapists to join our New Band 6 rotations. The rotations currently include - Community Falls Prevention Service - Inpatient Frailty Team (including inpatient falls) - Community Physiotherapy, with the hope to include orthopaedics at a later date.

As part of the Falls Prevention Service, a therapy-led team, the post-holder will work between both an outpatient clinic setting and in the community providing assessment and interventions to reduce risk of falls, enhance independence and quality of life.

Within the Inpatient Frailty Service, the post holder will provide specialist assessment and treatment for patients, as part of a multi-disciplinary team, working at the County Hospital.

Community Physiotherapy post is a countywide service that provides support to individuals in their own homes, it include admission avoidance, discharge to assess and community rehabilitation work.

The post holder will maintain their own clinical caseload, and have the opportunity to play an active part in the development and daily running of the services, including in-service training, student education, clinical supervision, and health and service promotion.

Experience in falls prevention and frailty, or a breadth of experience in a range of clinical areas, is essential in this role, alongside a high standard of clinical and communication skills, and the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.

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 physiotherapists to join the on call rota once competencies have been achieved.

These posts will require you to have access to a car for work purposes.

We encourage enquiries for an informal discussion please contact Lisa Mills on 07973 534976.

About us

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

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your 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.

Employer details

Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address

Hereford County Hospital

Hereford

HR1 2ER

Employer's website

https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address

Hereford County Hospital

Hereford

HR1 2ER

Employer's website

https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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