Band 6 Physiotherapist

Job Title:  Respiratory Physiotherapist– Band 6
Area:  East Anglia NHS
Salary:  £negotiable  
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length:  1 year fixed term          
Job details:  Respiratory. Physiotherapist required for 3 months. JD available on request:

• To deliver a physiotherapy service within a satellite base, but also with scope to work within a hospital setting when departmental/Trust demands require it, working without direct supervision.  This includes working with patients who have a range of complex needs, e.g.:

• Multiple trauma/elective surgery
• Palliative/end-of-life conditions
• Varying dependency through limitations in mobility/transfers/function
• Impaired perception and communication skills, e.g. stroke, head injury
• Mental health problems, e.g. dementia
• Frailty

• Clinical/professional supervision takes the form of direct observation of practice or formal training/clinical reasoning sessions (at least monthly).  Advice and support are always available
• To assess and treat own caseload of patients, who may have complex presentations, and maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner, prioritising own workload alongside the demands of the team
• To provide a reablement and rehabilitation approach to patients within the community setting
• To assist with teaching and supervision of new team members and students.  Also deliver training to multidisciplinary team and lead on service development projects within the field of work

• To work a rostered seven-day service/shift pattern within the Hospital or in a community health setting as required

Code: U.016007.B12416