Senior Physiotherapist-Leominster/Kington Neighbourhood Team(Band 5/6)

Job summary
We encourage early application as we reserve the right to close this post once sufficient candidates have applied.

Wye Valley NHS Trust has an exciting opportunity for an experienced physiotherapists to join our community based Neighbourhood Teams across Herefordshire on a permanent basis. The post holder will work out of the Leominster Community Office base.

You will be working alongside other Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists - registered and non-registered, District Nurses, ACPs and alongside Home First reablement service and care agencies, completing home visits and offering physiotherapy assessments and treatment plans to patients. The role includes community rehabilitation, discharge to assess and urgent response.

Our community teams, we strive to invest in your development and offer regular training, team meetings, shared learning and regular supervision sessions. We aim to support the Trusts focus of providing care closer to home.

This posts will require you to have access to a car for work purposes.

We encourage enquiries. For an informal discussion please contact Donna Clarke on View phone number on meeveem.com.

Main duties of the job
Working as part of the therapy and wider multidisciplinary team, Band 6 senior therapists use specialist skills in a variety of areas to provide direct high quality and effective therapeutic care and support to patients. This post is based out in the Community.

Within the scope of the role, the post holder will independently plan, complete specialist assessment and deliver interventions. They will be responsible for independently managing their own patient caseload, demonstrating clinical autonomy, specialist clinical reasoning, prioritisation and manage competing demands. Supervision is clear and direct from senior therapy staff and includes formal training, supervised sessions, advice and support.

The post holder will initiate and contribute to service development, demonstrate self-development and will be responsible for supervision of others and delegate appropriate tasks to registered and non-registered staff. The band 6 senior therapist will be required to participate in 7 day working and for physiotherapists to join the on call rota once competencies have been achieved.

About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Job responsibilities
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view the Job description and person specification attached to this vacancy in the supporting documents.

Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential

• Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
• HCPC registered
• Post Graduate specialist qualification/significant post graduate experience

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential

• Broad and specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions
• Demonstration of knowledge of core and specialist Therapy skills
• Evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area
• Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping

Experience
Essential

• NHS or equivalent experience e.g. in inpatient areas, acute or community or community services
• Experience of using/fitting adaptive equipment
• Experience working as Band 5 in the NHS
• UK Driving license and access to vehicle

Desirable

• Community experience

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).