NHS Scotland
Specialist Physiotherapist
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Specialist Physiotherapist
Opportunity for a Physiotherapist in Community Rehabilitation Team
An opportunity has arisen for a Physiotherapist to join our Community Rehabilitation Team based in St Andrews Community Hospital.
Requirements
- NHS experience with adults, mainly older people
- Assessment and treatment knowledge and skills associated with this patient group
- Degree in Physiotherapy and registered with the HCPC
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Evidence of involvement in audit and service development
- Experience of supervising junior staff for Band 6 level
Responsibilities
- Focus on inpatient rehabilitation
- Carry out rehabilitation in patients' own homes
- Prevent unnecessary admission
- Support earliest possible discharge from hospital
- Enable patients to remain as independent as possible
Working Conditions
- Patients seen in wards, their own homes, homely settings, or as outpatients
- Occasional work in other community hospital sites
- Regular supervision, PDP, and training opportunities
- Ability to travel throughout the area is essential
- Public holiday working in operation (except Christmas Day and New Year’s Day)
- Interviews will take place face to face
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Alison Constance, Team Lead Physiotherapist, Alison.constance@nhs.scot
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Additional Information
- We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies
- Fully support disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices
- NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
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