Physiotherapist - HMP Berwyn

Job summary

CLINICAL PHYSIOTHERAPIST (BAND 6)

HMP BERWYN, WREXHAM, NORTH WALES

Fixed Term Opportunity - 6 Months

37.5 HOURS PER WEEK

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of the Clinical Therapies Team within HMP Berwyn in partnership with the National Offender Management Service (NOMS).

Category C male training prison, with a remand facility, with a capacity of 2,106.

We are looking for an experienced and skilled Physiotherapist with a broad range of skills. The successful candidate will have significant proven post-graduate specialist level clinical competencies, and able to manage varied and complex cases that could present amongst the Prison population. You will have excellent organisational skills and an ability to problem solve multiple issues within a fast-paced custodial context.

You must have a degree in Physiotherapy, active HCPC registration and evidence of robust and consistent CPD.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for:

• Provision of physiotherapy assessments and treatments; individualised therapeutic treatment programmes for a specialised caseload, working in the prison and potentially in community resettlement sites.
• Working closely and communicating with the individual, prison officers and potentially family/ 'carers' and with multidisciplinary and multiagency teams.
• Training and supervising health service staff but also prison officers and members of the multidisciplinary and multiagency team who support 'physiotherapy programmes'.
• You may work as a lone practitioner with support from security procedures and prison staff, peer group and team leader.
• Working to evidence-based principles, current best practice, specialist skills and clinical reasoning

HELPING PEOPLE TO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER

About us

If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and 'Proud to Lead' competence framework.

Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the "Disability Confident Employer" scheme.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.