Senior Physiotherapist OPAL

Job summary

The Older Persons Assessment & Liaison (OPAL) team are looking for a motivated and dynamic Physiotherapist to join the team on a fixed term secondment. We are looking for someone with an ethos of continual improvement and development to help us provide appropriate and tailored person-centred care to our patients.

The is a fantastic opportunity to join the award-winning OPAL team at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. The OPAL team consists of Advanced Clinical practitioners, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants. The team work closely with the Frailty MDT to provide specialist assessment and treatment to patients with Frailty within the emergency department, and acute medical unit within a same day emergency care (SDEC) model.

The service prides itself on its success rate and is committed to providing opportunities to develop both clinical and non-clinical skills through our Mentor and Coaching programmes.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist assessment and treatment to patients with Frailty within urgent and emergency care services. Must be able to work in a generalist manner to ensure continuity of care.

To work closely with other members of the Frailty MDT in providing acute hospital-based assessment for frail older people, including Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.

As an experienced Physiotherapist, to provide therapy advice and support to other disciplines or services, within the team and across the Trust.

To work collaboratively with the wider Frailty Therapy Team to ensure operational and clinical priorities are delivered, to ensure safe patient care.

To extend the scope of clinical practice to enable the support of medical and nursing colleagues to provide excellent patient care.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visitingwww.experiencesalisbury.co.uk