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Highly Specialist Physiotherapist

Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Location
London
Salary
£46,836 to £52,849 a year pa inc
Closing date
23 Mar 2023

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Profession
CBT therapist
Grade
Band 7
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
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


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


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277-5071378-CPH

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