Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Physiotherapist to work within our community rehabilitation inpatient services. This role is for a fixed term of 6 months, 37.5 hours per week. The role has been created to provide additional to support to our therapy teams in response to seasonal demand pressures.

There are four East Suffolk Community rehabilitation sites, including Bluebird Lodge, Felixstowe Community Hospital, Aldeburgh Community Hospital and Avocet court care facility, as part of the wider ESNEFT Trust. One of these sites will be your base and you will be expected to work at others sites, depending on demand.

You will work as part of the Therapy team, Including Therapy team leads, an Occupational Therapist, Therapy Assistant Practitioners and Generic Workers, to promote the discharge to assess pathways for in-patients. You will also work alongside the multidisciplinary team of Modern matron, Doctors, Nurses, Social Care workers and Ipswich Hospital transfer of care hub.

We are looking for a Physiotherapist with commitment and enthusiasm, who has a passion to work as part of a team to progress patients rehabilitation goals and use a range of therapy interventions to facilitate timely and appropriate discharges.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver a high standard of Therapy service.
• To take part under the guidance of the Modern Matron, Therapy Lead and senior members of the team in managing bed occupancy at the Community Hospitals sites.
• To be responsible alongside the multi-disciplinary team for daily caseload management of therapy interventions ensuring all patients receive timely, appropriate, effective treatment and discharge planning.
• To work as an autonomous clinical practitioner in providing complex holistic patient-centred assessments and treatments which are governed by evidence-based practice and follow current NICE Guidelines; ensuring all clinicians involved in patient care keep their practice relevant and current whilst also adhering to HCPC, CQC and Trust clinical and quality standards.
• To ensure as far as is reasonably practical the safety of the patients in your care.
• To participate in own and others continuous professional development, appraisal processes and other developmental activities according to professional registration and trust policies.
• To supervise and assist in the development of junior clinicians, non-qualified staff and students on placement.
• To undertake audit of both clinical practice and processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• To work with patients across Community and Acute Hospital settings as part of an Integrated Service.
• Contribute to quality improvement projects and initiatives aimed at improving service delivery and patient rehabilitation outcomes.

About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Essential qualifications

• Diploma/Degree/MSc pre reg
• State registration with HCPC
• Post graduate training relevant to integrated care of older people/complex discharges and involving acquisition of specialist skills and knowledge.
• Student placement practice qualification
• Current UK driving license

Desirable qualifications

• Membership of professional body
• Membership of CSP Specialist Section e.g. AGILE
• Accredited wheelchair assessor

Essential experience

• Significant post registration experience to include therapy rotations at B5 and B6 level across acute/community/social services care to include a spectrum of health and social care conditions.
• Experience of managing frailty
• Experience of facilitating discharges for people with complex needs and involving multi-pathology
• Experience of complex caseload management
• Documented evidence of continuing professional development involving specialist additional knowledge and experience
• Experience of supervision and professional/clinical development of staff
• Experience of demonstrating moving/handling

Desirable experience

• Facilitating training and education
• Project leadership
• Evidencing and auditing practice
• Participation in service development and change management
• Experience of participating or conducting research

Essential knowledge

• Knowledge and application of Physiotherapy assessments and interventions relevant to acute care /complex discharges
• Knowledge and application of Physiotherapy models of practice and assessments
• Knowledge of and adherence to Infection Control principles and guidelines
• Knowledge and application of relevant legislation and current best practice within acute care / NICE/ National frameworks
• Knowledge and application of principles of clinical governance processes
• Health & Safety and risk awareness

Desirable knowledge

• Knowledge and application of secondary prevention measures re stroke, falls etc
• Knowledge and application of PDR practice and principles
• Knowledge of local community agencies, services, and resources
• Knowledge of assessment of complex health and social care needs re. special needs housing
• Knowledge on integration of services

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.