Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a skilled, enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Northeast Shropshire Community Therapy Team. To provide a high quality Physiotherapy service within a multidisciplinary team, delivering a flexible approach to patient care, in a variety of settings throughout the locality, following the patient through their care pathway.

We will work closely with our health and social care partners to give patients more control over their own care and find necessary treatments more readily available. We will support people with multiple health conditions, not just single diseases, and deliver care as locally and conveniently as possible for our patients. We strive to provide a service that is responsive to the needs of the local population as part of a cohesive multidisciplinary team.

Employed by Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, the post holder will also have future opportunities to undertake 6 month rotations within Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust (SCHT) and across The Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICS.   This will allow exposure to a variety of setting increasing your skills and knowledge base and allowing you to explore where your career could take you.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high quality seamless physiotherapy service from Acute or Community Hospital to Community, responsive to the needs of the local population as part of a cohesive multidisciplinary team.

The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner to perform assessment of patients with diverse presentations. To use clinical reasoning to diagnose/interpret and then develop, deliver and adapt individualised treatment plans for patients within a clinical area

The post holder will be required to delegate appropriate tasks to physiotherapy assistants and will receive feedback from these staff regarding patient’s progress or deviation from expected treatment pathways. They will be responsible for making necessary changes.

Working for our organisation

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.