Job overview

Our highly regarded frailty team at PRH works as an MDT providing admission avoidance services and therapy to prevent deconditioning and maximise independence in specialist areas of ED and short stay wards. 

This is also an exciting time to join the team with the recent opening of the Frailty Same Day Emergency Care unit (SDEC) at both sites. 

We are proud to offer therapy to patients across 7 days a week.  Working in collaboration with our MDT colleagues across the week enables us to deliver physiotherapy specific services when patients need us. As part of this position the successful applicant would be supported to join our weekend rota’s which cover an acute respiratory, orthopaedic and general therapeutic progression patient list.   There will be a need  for extended working hours of the therapy team to mirror the MDT.

This role is for 37.5 hours per week which can be worked flexibly with collaborative discussion on appointment. There may be an opportunity to rotate cross site between the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The therapy team operates a Home First ethos and works to creatively implement plans to enable people to return to their usual activities of daily living, within their own home environment wherever possible. 

Whilst this role specialise in frailty at the front door services, it is also part of the wider inpatient therapy team. This offers opportunity to access the support and guidance from the wider team, as well as discussion to create integrated patient journeys. 

Main duties include: 

• To assess, diagnose/interpret and manage own specialist caseload of complex patients as an autonomous practitioner in accordance with Professional Code of Conduct and Health and Care Professions Council Regulations.
• Engage in own learning to develop self and service
• Participate or lead on projects to develop services
• Provide learning opportunities for others including band 5's and students as well as celebrating learning and achievements with the wider therapy teams.    
• Participation in our respiratory physiotherapy on-call rota
• To work closely with team leads, clinical leads and senior therapists to ensure a robust structure of training, supervision and appraisal is delivered to all members within the team.
• To act as a source of Specialist advice and support within the Therapy Centre and across the Trust and the wider health care system.

Working for our organisation

As an employee within SaTH's Therapy Centre you will have access to a range of professional support. On joining SaTH you will become an integral member of the Therapy Centre, shaping and developing services for the benefit of patients, their families as well as other employees. 

Our Hospital Trust is split across two principal sites in Shrewsbury and Telford with a therapy workforce consisting of over 250 employee’s across inpatients, outpatients and within community services.  

At SaTH, we have a strong central commitment to provide high quality, safe and effective therapy services to all our patients; key to this is ensuring our workforce is supported and equipped with the ability to deliver on that pledge. Regular access to clinical supervision, clinical and leadership training and committed weekly non-clinical time are some of the opportunities available to the successful applicant.

Within the inpatient team we have a strong ethos of collaboration. We have a friendly, inclusive, and open culture. We take pride empowering our team and offer annual listening events for all colleagues to share concerns and ideas with the management team to facilitate meaningful changes and driving our services forward.

SaTH is currently undergoing an infrastructural change through the Hospital Transformation Programme. These exciting changes aim to improve the services we provide therefore making this an excellent time to join the trust.