Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band -5
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - Various
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-0000925
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- London
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £15.67 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 15/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Physiotherapist band 5
NHS AfC: Band -5
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
Bank Physiotherapist band 5
Are you keen to use your assessment and intervention skills in a rewarding NHS role but unable to commit to a permanent position right now?
We have an excellent opportunity for a Physiotherapist to become part of a responsive rehabilitation service, working across community-based settings in South West London
Our bank Physiotherapists work flexible hours across a 7-day service, with excellent support and great career development opportunities.
Why join?
- Earn more per hour - bank rates are higher than agency and include holiday pay. We also cover your expenses and provide free uniforms
- See the best shifts first – bank staff get priority over all agency workers
- Get 24x7 support from our friendly Staff Bank team – a local team dedicated to helping you
- Become part of an integrated team – feel more valued and supported in your work
Main duties of the job
JOB PURPOSE
• To have clinical responsibility for assessment and treatment planning for people referred and will be required to work autonomously and as part of the multidisciplinary care team.
• The clinical caseload will comprise of adult patients with physical and cognitive difficulties within the community.
• To supervise junior colleagues and assistants.
• To collaborate with colleagues across own and other community teams, acute teams, GPs, social services and voluntary sector to optimise patients’ journey, care, wellbeing and outcomes.
• To assist in the overall development and management of physiotherapy and community rehab services, and in the development of integrated pathways.
MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
CLINICAL
• To undertake specialist physiotherapy and holistic assessment of patients as an autonomous practitioner, interpret results appropriately, use clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of t based practice, in relation to the individual’s clinical and psycho-social issues to determine treatment options, recommending the best course of action.
• To undertake treatment planning and implementation of agreed goal orientated intervention with client/carers.
• To contribute towards single assessment and trusted assessment processes
• To provide comprehensive intervention to patients in the community, making use of assessment and treatment facilities where appropriate.
Working for our organisation
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
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stay well
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manage their own health with the right support
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avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
• To undertake occupational therapy assessments for a designated caseload using a variety of different techniques including standardised and non-standardised assessments to make an accurate assessment of client need.
• To gather relevant information from a variety of sources, and analyse and interpret all information gained to make an independent decision.
• To assess, select and recommend equipment/minor adaptations which may assist clients in achieving the maximum level of independence and quality of life in daily living activities. This will include ensuring the safe use of the equipment, and may include fitting/installing of equipment in client’s homes
Person specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential criteria
- • Degree and Licence to Practise from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
- • Current registered membership of HCPC and RCSLT
- • Working with children in clinics and/or school based settings
- • Awareness of needs of parents, teachers and others • Flexibility
- • Good problem solving skills
- • Highly developed auditory and perceptual skills in the assessment diagnosis and treatment of children with a broad range of speech, language and communication difficulties
- • Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe speech phonetically
- • Manual dexterity sufficient to carry out swallowing assessment and use of high and low technical assessment equipment
- • Normal Child Development including Speech and Language, Play and other milestones
- • Knowledge of appropriate range of assessments and interventions for children with Speech, Language and Communication impairments and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits to individual children
- • Education Practice and Policy and National Curriculum • Religious, Cultural and Linguistic issues impacting upon caseload management
- • Awareness of national policies and procedures (relevant to school aged children)
- • Able to maintain prolonged concentration in order to assess the speech, language and communication skills of school-aged children using formal and informal assessments
- • Travel around district and access different venues, with or without adaptations
Desirable criteria
- • Training others
- • Adult-Child Interaction(ACI)
- • Working with multi-cultural client groups
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- shannon scott
- Job title
- Bank Recruitment Business Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
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