Highly Specialist Physiotherapist

Job summary

Based on its award-winning Rehabilitation Model, Cardiff and Vale UHB is developing a 'Live Well Service' to meet the needs of people with long term medical conditions. We are looking for a dynamic, innovative and experienced physiotherapist to join this inter-disciplinary team. This post is a unique opportunity to deliver a truly biopsychosocial approach, innovate across traditional boundaries and utilsing community power.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

The role involves specific clinical input for those with long term medical conditions including individual work, group work, consultation, close collaboration and supervision of colleagues.

The post holder will have significant post registration experience, including working at a senior level in the the specialist area with clinical management experience.

The physiotherapist will work flexibly, autonomously and collaboratively with fellow AHP team members to provide holistic and transdiagnostic interventions supporting self care management and behavioural change.

The post holder will carry a clinical caseload and act as a resource providing advice and support to other physiotherapists and AHPs within collaborating services across the UHB. They will lead professionally on physiotherapy related issues, within the Long Term Condition Management clinical area or pathway. This will include patients with multi-pathology and complex needs.

They may be required to work their normal contracted hours flexibly in a variety of different working patterns in response to the needs of the service. For example, this could include working their contracted hours as part of a 7-day job plan or working their hours over a pattern that includes extended days and unsocial hours.

There is a strong service development and improvement aspect to this role with opportunities for research and audit.

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.

Our mission is "Caring for People, Keeping People Well",and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population's health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.

Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.