Highly Specialist Physiotherapist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Bexley Complex Case Team are looking for an Highly Specialist Physiotherapist to join the team. The successful post holder will work clinically within the team, providing clinical input and leadership within the multi-professional team. The post holder will be an expert Physiotherapist with extensive clinical experience in the management of patients.

The service will operate Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm

Main duties of the job

The Complex Case Team provide interventions into the Care Homes in Bexley. Our aim is to support residents in the care homes to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. The team facilitate MDTs with the care homes which include community services, mental health and GP's to provide interventions required to support the patients in the care homes.

The Physiotherapist will work as a part of the multi-disciplinary Complex Case Team to meet the needs of patients referred to the team, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice.

The Complex Case Team provides rehabilitation, including Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Nursing to adult clients living in the borough of Bexley, across various community settings and in their own homes. The physiotherapist will work as part of the multidisciplinary Integrated Team to meet the rehabilitation needs of the service users and their carers, enhancing independence, safety and quality of life, maintaining people in their own home environments.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

We're Kind
We're Fair
We Listen
We Care

Date posted

08 March 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,836 to £52,849 a year pa inc

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

277-5071378-CPH

Job locations

181 Lodge Hill

Goldie Leigh Hospital

London

DA16 1BL

Job description

Job responsibilities

To highly provide specialist physiotherapy input to clients referred to the Complex Case Team.

Link with the local acute hospital to facilitate safe and pro-active discharges.

To lead in the delivery of a specialist physiotherapy service within the multidisciplinary team as an autonomous practitioner, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice.

To deliver a broad range of training programmes covering all aspects of physiotherapy rehabilitation and professional development to the MDT.

To support the Integrated Complex Case Manager in the development and provision of an effective, efficient, and high-quality complex case service.

To deputise where appropriate for the Integrated Complex Case Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

To highly provide specialist physiotherapy input to clients referred to the Complex Case Team.

Link with the local acute hospital to facilitate safe and pro-active discharges.

To lead in the delivery of a specialist physiotherapy service within the multidisciplinary team as an autonomous practitioner, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice.

To deliver a broad range of training programmes covering all aspects of physiotherapy rehabilitation and professional development to the MDT.

To support the Integrated Complex Case Manager in the development and provision of an effective, efficient, and high-quality complex case service.

To deputise where appropriate for the Integrated Complex Case Manager

Person Specification

Meets educational criteria for the post

Essential

Meets criteria for post

Meets experience criteria for post

Essential

Meets criteria for post

Person Specification

Meets educational criteria for the post

Essential

Meets criteria for post

Meets experience criteria for post

Essential

Meets criteria for post

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).