About this role
Job summary
This role offers an excellent opportunity to work across the South Devon Health Community, providing high-quality physiotherapy care in a wide variety of clinical settings. These include ward environments, outpatient departments, intermediate care facilities, community locations, and patients' own homes.
As a member of the Bank team, the post holder will be required to work flexibly across different services and teams. This position is well suited to a confident and adaptable physiotherapist who is able to work independently, while also engaging proactively with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team.
Benefits of the Role
Flexible working to support work-life balance
Access to the Trust's training programmes and learning resources
Ongoing support and professional guidance from experienced colleagues
A rewarding role making a meaningful difference by supporting patients through recovery and their return to health and independence This role provides a valuable opportunity to broaden clinical experience, develop professionally, and make a meaningful contribution to patient care within a supportive and collaborative health community.
Main duties of the job
To provide timely Physiotherapy assessment and treatment interventions to patients presenting across a variety of clinical specialities. Bank work placement could be across any of the following clinical care settings: MSK outpatients, acute and community inpatient settings including neuro and community settings including Intermediate care, Neuro and Community Physiotherapy To utilise clinical reasoning to support admission avoidance, early mobilisation, and safe, effective discharge planning To support patient flow by providing rapid access to physiotherapy interventions that promote recovery, independence, and safe transition home or to onward care from inpatient settings To assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid formal consent and jointly agreed goals To work within the legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment To provide regular and spontaneous use of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to discuss complex information about underlying influences, diagnosis, prognosis, progression of rehabilitation and treatment programmes with patient or carer. This will include patients who may have difficulties relating to complex emotional, psychological as well as physical conditions relating to the presenting complaint. This client group includes those who have difficulties in understanding or communicating, patient may be dysphasic, depressed, deaf, blind or who may be unable to accept diagnosis
About us
Why Work With Us?
At Torbay and South Devon, we value our people and the diverse experiences and contributions they bring. We're proud to be an inclusive organisation where everyone is supported to make a real difference. So why not join us?
Job description Job responsibilities
To provide a Physiotherapy service as part of a wider therapies team based on service needs and requirements of the Trust Tomaintainaccuratecomprehensive and up to date documentation, in line with legal, departmental and CSP standards of practice. To communicate assessment and treatment results to theappropriate disciplinesin the form of reports, letters or verbally Represent physiotherapy and/or individual patient to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multi-disciplinary service and to integrate physiotherapy managementin tothe overall management plan. This may involve health and social care staff, voluntary and private sector. This will involve advising to the multi-disciplinary team on management of physical recovery and discussion of patient care,progressand discharge planning To be involved in the supervision and co-ordination of support workerson a daily basis In most cases,be the sole health professional with responsibility for that patients episode of care To undertake advanced physiotherapeutic assessment To undertake advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse or complex physical, psychological,cognitiveand behavioural conditionsin order toprovidean accuratediagnosis and prognosis
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Degree in Physiotherapy Current HCPC registration
Experience Essential
Experience in the core clinical areas of physiotherapy within an NHS setting or equivalent setting - areas to include a range of respiratory, musculoskeletal, acute inpatient and elderly care, trauma and orthopaedics, community or intermediate care, neurological conditions
Desirable
Previous experience working within the NHS
Skills Essential
Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy team and/or multidisciplinary team
Desirable
Post graduate experience in a physiotherapy related field
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Address Torbay and Surrounding areas
Torbay
TQ2 7AA
Employer's website https://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)