Senior Physiotherapist inLymington inLymington PUBLISHED
FRI 3 JAN 2025
Candidates must be registered physiotherapists with strong communication, time management, and prioritisation skills, and should have access to a vehicle with a full driving license. The role supports a flexible 7-day service model and offers opportunities for ongoing career development. The Trust is committed to an inclusive recruitment process and encourages conversations around flexible working arrangements.
An exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our Integrated Community Team. You will work closely alongside our nursing and frailty teams and wider Primary Care Colleagues to prevent hospital admissions, support patients being discharged from hospital, palliative care and promote self-management for patients with long term conditions.
We are currently working to develop and expand the delivery of UCR (Urgent community response) model of care whilst continuing to deliver rehabilitation to adults living in the area who have long-term or complex health needs.
We are looking for applicants who are dynamic, keen to develop their skills and who enjoy working as part of a team. The successful candidate will need to have good communication skills, demonstrate good time management and prioritisation skills. The post holder will participate in the development, training and support of the multi professional team and students. In return Southern Health offer training opportunities to support ongoing career development.
Applicants must be a registered physiotherapist and have full access to a vehicle for work and possession of a full driving license is essential. The post holder will also need to be willing to work flexibly to support our 7 day service model.
Location -- South Efford House, Milford Road, Everton, Lymington SO41 0JD
To provide advanced clinical and professional Physiotherapy to the Community Therapy Team, and to provide support to the Integrated Community Care team leaders in ensuring that the team contributes to the implementation of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare Clinical Governance Strategies.
Undertake Physiotherapy assessments of patients with diverse and complex conditions, providing a clinical diagnosis (where appropriate), development, and delivery of individualised treatment programmes.
To support the case management process by providing expert clinical advice and therapy to patients with a variety of complex conditions living in the community who are at risk of deteriorating health that may result in declining quality of life or avoidable hospital admission to secondary care.
As a supervisor, delegate tasks to assistant practitioners and junior therapists relevant to their skill level and competence.
About us
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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