Job summary
- Main area
- primary/communities
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AHP048-0425
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- East Integrated network, Block 1, Glanrhyd hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £37,898 - £45,637 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Community Physiotherapist
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
This is an exciting time to join our integrated team of Social Workers, District Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Community Mental Health Nurses , speech and language therapists, dieticians, experienced technicians and dementia support workers.
We are seeking to appoint an energetic, enthusiastic full time, permanent specialist physiotherapist to this team.
The team works with adults from the age of 18, into older age, affected by frailty and/or complex long term health conditions and/or disabilities; often compounded by their mental health or emotional well-being needs.
The post holder will need to work closely with all the multi-professionals as well as GPs and Primary care and cluster staff, and the Third sector, to support individuals to have good quality emotional and physical well-being.
They will be a key practitioner within the team; developing and providing an effective, holistic and targeted support around the person.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Main duties of the job
The post holder is identified as a skilled and creative practitioner with knowledge of working with and supporting people living within their own communities and will be an integral member of the Integrated Community Network Teams.
The post holder although based as part of the Integrated Network Team will also work with the GP Practices, residential care homes and into the community to respond in a timely way to patients needs in the community and within residential care homes.
The post holder will need to work with the Band 7 Physiotherapist to develop the Physiotherapy service in Primary Care within their cluster, working closely with GP staff, and the wider multidisciplinary staff within the practices as well as the Integrated Community Network Teams and the Community Resource Team. The Integrated Community Network Teams work to develop seamless pathways of care and support.
This role will be key to be responsive to people’s needs within their localities by working in collaboration with the GP practices and professionals with the Integrated Community Network Team in getting involved at the very earliest point to try to keep people in their homes.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Establish rapport and gain consent from the person before applying other professional skills.
Communicate complex sensitive information in an understandable form to patients and carers where the skills of motivation, persuasion, empathy and re-assurance are required.
Share acquired knowledge and skills with members of the multi-disciplinary team, peers, students and others using a variety of teaching methods and presentation skills.
Be clinically competent to provide advice and treatment to individuals with diverse healthcare needs.
Undertake comprehensive physiotherapy assessments for a designated caseload, addressing physical deficit.
Be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care.
Work with clients to identify physiotherapy goals as part of the overall care plan.
Plan and implement individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with the client, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
Develop specialised programmes of care using specialised approaches and models of practice.
Monitor and evaluate treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of the intervention and record outcomes for all clients on caseload, audit outcomes and share with peers and members of MDT.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Physiotherapy qualification and registered with HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the community
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of integrated working
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervision and delegation
Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of assessments and managing complex conditions
Desirable criteria
- Experience of frailty, falls, complexity and dementia
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Christopher Lloyd
- Job title
- East Integrated service manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656642448
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