York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Physiotherapist
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Specialist Physiotherapist - Band 6
Are you passionate about supporting patients in their own homes, and committed to improving their quality of life? Do you feel ready for a new challenge and to make a difference to others alongside a fun, supportive and friendly team?
We are seeking a Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist to join the York Community Therapy Team. You will deliver high standards of Holistic and Physiotherapy interventions to patients within their own place of residence to maintain independence and function, prevent admission and support discharges.
About the Role
Our well established team consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Support Workers.
This role will involve using health coaching skills to effectively engage with the patient and their family to ensure expectations are appropriately managed.
Responsibilities
- To undertake specialist physiotherapy assessment and management of patients referred to the York Community Therapy Team.
- To determine clinical diagnosis/need and deliver physiotherapy intervention as indicated.
- To provide support, specialist advice and training to more junior members of staff and students.
- To act as a resource within the department and Trust, providing specialist information and advice regarding patients.
- To maintain records as an autonomous practitioner in accordance with legislation, professional and service policy.
- Provide support to other colleagues when dealing with this group of patients.
- To be responsible for a defined area of service working without direct supervision. Clinical work is not routinely evaluated, however clinical work will be evaluated in line with Trust and service objectives. Access and advice is available from senior professional colleagues if required.
- Initiate evidence-based audit and projects to evaluate and improve clinical practice. Initiate and evaluate user involvement and where appropriate make local service changes.
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Requirements
The ability to transport yourself and equipment across the locality during the course of a normal working day is required for this vacancy. Access to a vehicle that can be used for business purposes and hold a full and valid driving licence (role will involve travel to numerous addresses that cannot be easily accessed by public transport means) is required.
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:
- Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
- 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
- A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully.
- A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
- Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
- NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
- An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
- Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers
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For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.
How to Apply
Please seek approval from your current line manager if you are applying for this on a secondment basis.
Please note due to transferring into Neighbourhood teams, there will be a change of base at some point, time scale not currently know. This would be either Tang Hall, Acomb or Haxby.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Patricia Taylor
- Job title: AHP Team Manager York Community Therapy Team
- Email address: patricia.taylor40@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07518806233
To find out more about what it is like to work for our Trust please visit the following link: https://yorkhospitals.pagetiger.com/hdjgxd
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