Band 5 Physiotherapist

Job Overview

We have a great opportunity for a full time Band 5 Physiotherapist to join our team to provide physiotherapy interventions to patients within our Home First and Community Therapy Service. The service brings together an integrated health and social care offer delivered by community-based nursing, therapy and adult social care teams and will allow you to use your therapy skills to:

• Support people to remain in their homes when they are having a health or social care crisis, rather than needing to go into hospital or a care home.
• Help people get home from hospital quickly and provide them with rehabilitation and reablement to help restore their health, wellbeing and independence.
• Deliver high quality core therapy reablement, rehabilitation and recovery to people within their own home.

This post requires a level of personal responsibility and we are looking for someone highly motivated, resilient and proactive with the ability to prioritise and manage their own allocated work, use their initiative and the ability to work on their own and as part of a team.

You will demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills and be able to adapt to a changing and pressurised environment.

For more information please contact faye.gilbert@nhs.net

Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)

• To carry out physiotherapy assessment and treatment (information gathering, assessment, treatment planning, intervention, evaluation and discharge planning) as appropriate working with a person centred approach.
• To work flexibly within the multidisciplinary team providing a holistic approach to meet the needs of the patient and service.
• Ensure that practice is within scope of own ability, knowledge, skills and experience. To ensure that practice is within the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy’s Code of Conduct and professional standards as well as local Trust standards and policies.
• To continue own professional development and competencies, consolidating theoretical and practical knowledge base, contributing to the continuing development of effectiveness therapy services.

It is mandatory for all professionally qualified staff and clinical support staff to actively participate in clinical supervision as an integral part of their professional development.

You will work closely with multidisciplinary colleagues, regarding clinical work, and with other professionals from within the appropriate MDT and outside agencies as appropriate.

You will need to communicate appropriately with patients and their carers in the course of your clinical role, some of which may be aggressive, have challenging behaviours or barriers to understanding.

You will need to be flexible to mental demands of the environment, eg deadlines and frequent interruptions, unpredictable work patterns.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.