Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Stay Well @ Home Team

Llantrisant, WLS, GB, United Kingdom

Job Description

It is an exciting time for therapies within Cwm Taf Morgannwg. We are seeking a dynamic, motivated and innovative Physiotherapist to join our integrated multi-professional, national award winning service.



The Physiotherapist within the Stay Well At Home Team works closely with the Occupational Therapists, Social Workers and Support Workers to provide a rapid response service to people attending the Emergency Care Department, Acute Medical Unit and medical wards. The overall aim of the service is to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting timely discharges using a discharge to assess model.



The post holder will be a skilled and experienced practitioner and will be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical expertise and experience of supervising staff/students. Acting within their professional boundaries, the post holder will provide support and intervention for the presenting person through holistic person centred assessment, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care within set parameters and across the multi-agency team approach. They will demonstrate safe, clinical decision -making and expert care and support for people within the Care of the Elderly setting.



The post offers opportunities to enthusiastic and motivated staff to develop and share their skills. The service supports involvement in audit clinical supervision, in-service training, and continuing professional development with emphasis placed on regular supervision and support from experienced colleagues and from our Band 7 Support Group.



Please see job description for a detailed description of the main duties of the job.



Welsh Skills Desirable:

This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn't 'fluency', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.



Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.



We live by our core values:



We listen, learn and improve



We treat everyone with respect



We all work together as one team



We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.



You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac



The Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist within the Stay Well @ Home Team is responsible for the early assessment of patients referred from A&E and the Acute Medical unit in order to prevent inappropriate admissions and enable timely discharge from hospital.



They will use highlight specialised, advanced clinical reasoning skills to determine a differential diagnosis whilst taking a major role in the advance assessment of falls risks, identifying further interventions required.



They act as an autonomous practitioner, providing expert assessment of the frail older person whilst also providing clinical leadership and operational management for the work of the band 6 physiotherapist and support staff (Across Stay Well @ Home) on the Acute Admission unit. During the absence of the corresponding Occupational Therapist and Principle Social Worker in the team, this post holder will also provide leadership and operational management to the social work and therapy component of the service

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD3344997
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Part Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Llantrisant, WLS, GB, United Kingdom
  • Education
    Not mentioned