Specialist Physiotherapist
2 weeks ago
The Role
Recent investment from North Lanarkshire Health and Social care has created a new rare and exciting opportunity within the AHP Care Home Liaison Team. The team provide a holistic, person centered and multi-professional approach to advice and support for care homes across NHS Lanarkshire.
Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy have a key role in rehabilitation, including targeted falls prevention and the promotion of meaningful activity to maximise health, wellbeing and personal independence.
The team are currently working on initiatives and service development work streams to improve the quality of the service provision within this sector. This investment will allow us to Increase the workforce to allow timely increased multi-focus support of falls management to help the earlier identification of modifiable risk factors.
With appropriate training and support, the expected duties will involve providing advice and continued support to care homes and the post holder will play a key role in initiatives that aim to increase activity levels and reduce risk of falls in the care homes setting.
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
What we'll need you to bring
Registered Physiotherapist with valid HCPC Registration
Educated to / working towards / operating at Degree Level
Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety , effectively and efficiently
Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice
Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions , pathology, policies and procedures associated with the speciality / area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within speciality / area of practice
Leadership skills to enable the day to day management of service delivery
Further education / evidence of Continuous Professional Development in area of speciality including study days / courses / post graduate qualification
The post holder will possess excellent team working / leadership skills and have the ability to motivate others and work using own initiative
Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills
Effective time management skills
Working knowledge of basic information technology
It would be great if you also have
Member of CSP
Membership of relevant special interest group
Multi-disciplinary working
Research and audit
Experience or interest in specialist area as detailed in role profile for this post
Contract type
Permanent
Full time
37 hours
Location
This role will be based in AHP within Law House
Looking to find out more?
If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you
Why NHS Lanarkshire?
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.
Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:
A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the )
Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
Occupational health services
Employee Counselling services
Work-life Balance policies and procedures
NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.
Further Information
For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our .
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