Specialist Community Physiotherapist UCR Service

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, self-motivated & proactive physiotherapist, with excellent communication & caseload management skills. To work in the Urgent Community response and intermediate care service, supporting Scarborough and Ryedale localities.

This role will support patients to remain at home, reduce hospital admission and support discharge. Enabling patients to be as independent as possible by providing specialist physiotherapy assessment & interventions to patients with a wide variety of clinical conditions in their own homes & care homes within the local community.

To succeed in this role you will need to be passionate about community healthcare provision, able to tackle key priorities with enthusiasm & have the tenacity to deliver in an ever changing environment. We are committed to our trust values of caring, learning & growing & offer a variety of learning opportunities with regular supervision and in-service training programmes. As a senior therapist you will have management and supervision responsibilities for junior staff & students.

We would like to hear from established & experienced Band 6 Physiotherapists, or experienced Band 5 Physiotherapists who are looking for their next stage of development.

Humber NHS Foundation Trust provides a number of staff benefits including personal car lease scheme, discounted gym membership & attractive pension scheme.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of this role include -

• Triage & prioritise new referrals received by the service
• Responsibility for a designated caseload of patients: to organise this effectively and efficiently with regards to clinical priorities and use of time.
• To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations using clinical reasoning skills.
• Support patients with individualised goal setting, education and care plans to work towards fulfilling their potential in a targeted and realistic way via delivery of evidence based clinical interventions and practice in partnership with patients, relatives, staff, managers, and externally with other agencies.
• To be accountable in own area of clinical responsibility participating in regular clinical and line management supervision, completing all required training and ensuring own continued professional development.
• To provide line management, supervision, support, guidance and training to peers, Community Support Practitioners and students.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good, health and social care Trust that delivers care to communities in Hull, East Yorkshire, Scarborough and Ryedale and Whitby. We deliver safe, effective and integrated health services that improve the physical, mental and social health and wellbeing of our patients and service users.

To find out more about our wide range of services including mental health, learning disabilities, children and young people service, Forensic, Community and Primary Care visit our website humber.nhs.uk/Services

You will join our team of over 3600 colleagues that work together across our wide geography and specialties to change lives every day. We're extremely proud of our Trust community and we know you can expect to receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need from your new team to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.