Community Physiotherapist

This Band 6 Senior Community Physiotherapist post sits in the North Hampshire Community Therapy Team, which provides domiciliary rehabilitation in patients' homes. The role centres on assessing and treating people with complex, multi-system conditions, managing a caseload independently and working with the multidisciplinary team to avoid hospital admission and enable timely discharge. It is part-time at 22.5 hours a week, with scope to build leadership skills, and an experienced Band 5 with community interest may also apply.

Full HCPC registration is required.

• Assess patients with acute, chronic and complex multi-system conditions using evidence-based practice
• Manage your own caseload while working within the multidisciplinary team
• Triage patients and liaise with the correct services
• Deliver treatment programmes, or direct interventions through support workers and other MDT members
• Facilitate safe discharge, including risk assessment, ordering equipment and advising patients and carers
• Prevent unnecessary admission to hospital or long-term care and promote functional independence
• Liaise with UCR team, district nurses, social care professionals and GPs for co-ordinated case management
• Work under the Clinical Team Lead, developing assessment and clinical skills that can be shared across the wider team

• Appropriate professional qualification as a physiotherapist or occupational therapist
• Level 6 degree plus postgraduate specialist training, experience or short courses to masters-equivalent level
• Good command of English, written and verbal

• Full HCPC registration

• Working with complex needs in a primary care or community setting
• Broad clinical skills across neuro, orthopaedic, MSK and elderly care
• Working with long-term conditions and frailty
• Involvement in implementing and managing change
• Organisational skills, including decision-making and prioritisation
  
  Interpreting research and evidence-based care and applying it to practice

• Computer literacy for data entry, email and report writing
• Efficient worker
• Good communicator
• Confident working as an autonomous practitioner
• Understanding of clinical and professional supervision, and taking part in it

• Community experience
• Further education or ongoing personal development, such as external courses or a masters degree, or equivalent experience
• Management or leadership qualification or development programme
• Experience of initiating or taking part in a quality improvement project in clinical practice

• Flexible working requests discussed at interview
• Opportunity to develop leadership and management skills within the team
• Clinical supervision and development support from district therapy leads