Rehabilitation Physiotherapist - Community Rehabilitation Team

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is one of the largest healthcare systems in the United Kingdom, employing approximately 40,000 staff across a wide range of clinical and non‑clinical professions and roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health services to a population of over 1.15 million people, and to a wider population of 2.2 million when regional and national services are included.

This is a unique opportunity to use your experience within the field of Physiotherapy, to deliver assessment, care and treatment as well as transformational change to people living in Nursing Home Care in the East Dunbartonshire locality. The post and Team have been in situ for 4 years, so opportunity remains to develop how the service is delivered to maximise positive outcomes for the community for those living in 24-hour care settings.

As the Physiotherapist, you will drive the delivery of Physiotherapy care and treatment and contribute to the ongoing development of the service to deliver on 3 key areas of practice.

A full driver’s licence and access to your own vehicle is essential.

This is a permanent, full-time post of 36 hours per week.

The role is based at Kirkintilloch Health and Care Centre.

The shift pattern is Monday to Friday.

• Professionally and legally accountable and responsible for all aspects of own work including direct and indirect patient care
• Act independently at an advanced level in assessing & analysing clinical and non clinical information in order to provide a comprehensive clinical diagnosis for individual patients that determines their need for physiotherapy intervention. This may include patients with complex presentation.
• Act independently to plan, implement, evaluate, treat and progress specialised programmes of patient care to maximise their rehabilitation potential including decision making regarding discharge from care.
• Assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• Manage an identifiable caseload of patients effectively and efficiently
• Work as part of a multi- professional team to ensure effective communication and delivery of care
• Incorporate additional skills gained from Continuous Professional Development into clinical practice and disseminate to others
• Maintain accurate, comprehensive and up to date patient documentation, records and accurate mandatory statistical information to reflect care provided and meet professional and local standards.
• Provide specialist expert advice, teaching and training to other members of the multi-disciplinary professions regarding patient management to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
• Communicate effectively, work collaboratively with and make recommendations to all relevant colleagues to maximise patient care and promote effective multi professional / multi-agency working.

• Responsibility for co‑ordinating the interdisciplinary goal planning process.
• Co‑ordination of discharge planning and making decisions regarding follow up when necessary.
• Balancing the needs of the clinical caseload management, alongside key working caseload to assist in the management of the team waiting times overall.
• Ensuring that all necessary information is collated and disseminated to the interdisciplinary team to maximise quality of service to the client and other service users.
• Liaising and working collaboratively with other agencies e.g. initiating referrals, sharing of information, recommending appropriate service delivery, initiating and leading at case conferences and discharge planning.
• Securing discharge from the service and…