Expansion of Frailty services at The Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust has created new opportunity for a Specialist Physiotherapist to join our established team, rotational across both our Shrewsbury and Telford sites.

Our highly regarded frailty team works as an MDT providing admission avoidance services and therapy to prevent deconditioning and maximise independence in specialist areas of ED, AMU and short stay wards.

We are proud to offer therapy to patients across 7 days and working in collaboration with our MDT colleagues across the week enables us to deliver physiotherapy specific services when patients need us. As part of this position the successful applicant would be supported to join our weekend rota's which cover an acute respiratory, orthopaedic and general therapeutic progression patient list.

This role is for 15hours per week which can be worked flexibly with collaborative discussion on appointment.

Main duties of the job

The therapy team operates a Home First ethos and works to creatively implement plans to enable people to return to their usual activities of daily living, within their own home environment wherever possible.

Whilst this role specialise in frailty at the front door services it is also part of the wider inpatient therapy team. This offers opportunity to access the support and guidance from the wider team, as well as discussion to create integrated patient journeys.

Main duties include:

• To assess, diagnose/interpret and manage own specialist caseload of complex patients as an autonomous practitioner in accordance with Professional Code of Conduct and Health and Care Professions Council Regulations.
• Engage in own learning to develop self and service
• Participate or lead on projects to develop services
• Provide learning opportunities for others including band 5's and students as well as celebrating learning and achievements with the wider therapy teams.
• Participation in our respiratory physiotherapy on-call rota
• To work closely with team leads, clinical leads and senior therapists to ensure a robust structure of training, supervision and appraisal is delivered to all members within the team.
• To act as a source of Specialist advice and support within the Therapy Centre and across the Trust and the wider health care system.

About us

This post is incredibly exciting and will make a real difference to the experience of the patients in our care and their families.

As an employee within SaTH's Therapy Centre, you will have access to a wide range of professional support, including Professional lead for Physiotherapy. On joining the SaTH therapy team you will become an integral member of the Therapy Centre, shaping and developing services for the benefit of patients, their families as well as other employees.

Our Hospital Trust is split across two principal sites in Shrewsbury and Telford with a therapy workforce consisting of over 250 employee's across inpatients, outpatients and within community services.

At SaTH NHS Trust we have a strong central commitment to provide high quality, safe and effective therapy services to all our patients key to this is ensuring our workforce is supported and equipped with the ability to deliver on that pledge. Regular access to clinical supervision, clinical and leadership training and job planning with committed weekly non-clinical time are some of the opportunities available to the successful post holder.

Within the inpatient team we have a strong ethos of collaboration and work closely as a team on a daily basis. We have a friendly, inclusive, and open culture. We take pride empowering our team and offer annual listening events for all colleagues to share concerns and ideas with the management team to facilitate meaningful changes and driving our services forward.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy
• HCPC registered

Knowledge

Essential

• Evidence of CPD detailing clinical experience relevant to the post
• Evidence sound understanding of assessment processes to support admission avoidance and home first principles

Desirable

• Knowledge of current NHS strategy and plans
• Evidence of specialist level clinical reasononing

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of broad range of pre and post qualification experience in the NHS acute or community settings
• Evidence of Teaching/student experience
• Previous experience delivering Acute respiratory physiotherapy

Desirable

• Experience of audit/research
• Previous experience working as part of an NHS respiratory on-call service
• Previous experience working within a frailty at the front door NHs service

Employer details

Employer name

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Address

The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and The Princess Royal Hospital, Telford

Mytton Oak Road

Shrewsbury

SY3 8XQ

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