In this rewarding role, you’ll play a crucial part in providing exceptional physiotherapy services that enable early supported discharge from hospital. You’ll have the chance to enhance your assessment and treatment skills while working autonomously in the community. With support from experienced colleagues, you'll gain advanced training and supervision, ensuring your professional growth in a caring environment. Plus, your experience in overseeing staff and students will be valued as we empower you to lead and inspire others within our energetic team. If you're HCPC registered and ready to drive meaningful change in people's lives, we encourage you to apply today!
The Short Term Assessment, Rehabilitation and Reablement Service (STARRS) are looking for an innovative and enthusiastic Senior Physiotherapist who will bring new ideas and share their excellent working practice within this busy, friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team.
Are you a quick thinking, problem-solving dynamic Physiotherapist? Are you looking to enhance your assessment and treatment skills for patients in crisis? Do you enjoy working alongside other professionals and services to achieve the best outcome for your patients? This post could be what you are looking for!
STARRS provides Nursing, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapyservices which can include specialist assessment, equipment and short-term packages of care.
We are energetic service, which provides acomprehensive service to enable safe, timely Early Supported Discharge from the acute hospital, thereby, reducing the length of hospital stay by continuing patient care at home. The team is operational 7 days a week between the hours of 08:00 and 22:30.
We require Senior Physiotherapist with experience in a wide variety of clinical areas including the community setting. You will need to be able to demonstrate excellent clinical reasoning, risk assessment, verbal and written communication skills. Due to the response standards for the team you must be able to work under pressure and provide timely specialist Physio assessments and interventions. You will be expected to be able to work autonomously and undertake visits in line with the STARRS' Lone Working Policy.
Experience of supervising other staff and students would be an advantage.
You will receive informal and formal supervision from experienced Physiotherapy colleagues within the team. You will have the opportunity to develop and enhance your existing high-level skills in an intermediate care setting. Through our 'Top to Toe' training you will be proficient to undertake advanced clinical assessment of patients, which includes recognsing and managing acutely unwell patients in the community. You will be encouraged to participate in Continuing Professional Development.
For this post, the following are essential:
- HCPC Registration
- Broad range of experience and excellent communication skills
- Car driver (the Trust has a lease car facility available)
- Registered car drive with clean UK licence.
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