Highly Specialist Physiotherapist

Location: Exeter, EX2 5AF
Salary: £46148.00 to £52809.00
Date posted: 28th March 2025
Closing date: 22nd April 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly specialist and motivated Physiotherapist to join the new Intensive Home Treatment Team for adults with an Eating Disorder. This new service aims to increase support to individuals by wrapping around the care provision provided by their Community Eating Disorder Team in a supported way to promote recovery from an Eating Disorder.

Your clinical skills will involve working with severe/complex individuals with an Eating Disorder and have an excellent understanding of physiotherapy focused evidence-based assessments and skills to provide interventions and support in a community setting.

Main duties of the job

You will be working as part of a small team of professionals providing assessment, treatment, and interventions to adults with an Eating Disorder. Individuals who will be accessing the service will be from Devon and Cornwall, and interventions are aimed at preventing an admission to a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit and supporting early discharge in a stepped-down way from a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit back into the Community. The Intensive Home Treatment Team will be reviewed and monitored as a new service with a formal evaluation taking place at the end of the 12-month period. We hope that individuals feel well supported, learn new skills, and can make positive changes towards recovery.

As a new service, we will need the candidate to be proactive, creative, be able to work well with others, and have the capacity to offer lots of energy and ideas.

About us

We provide mental health, learning disability, and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high-quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of co-production, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trust's core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving the lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part-time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity, or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Job responsibilities

• To provide expert physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and discharge of patients who access DPT's Eating Disorder Services and Pathways.
• To supervise and teach physiotherapy students, junior staff, and other personnel, acting as a source of specialist advice as appropriate.
• To work multi-professionally for efficient and effective patient care.
• To educate, liaise with, and provide recommendations to the multidisciplinary team with regard to optimal physiotherapy management in eating disorders.
• To take clinical responsibility for all designated specialist work within eating disorders including adherence to and implementation of national clinical guidelines and evidence-based practice.
• To regularly undertake audit and research to further evidence-based practice within own clinical practice, team, and wider physiotherapy service.
• To act independently to formulate, implement, evaluate, and deliver specialised Physiotherapy treatment within the Eating Disorder Service and Pathway.

Please see attached Job Description for full details of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Honours degree level or equivalent in Physiotherapy.
• Minimum of 4 years post-graduate experience.
• Training in specific mental health therapies and skills such as Body Awareness Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Counselling Skills, and Motivational Interviewing.
• Documentation evidence of relevant/recent post-graduate CPD.
• Professional Registration HCPC & CSP.
• Evidence of relevant post-graduate courses/CPD.
• Extensive general physiotherapy experience.
• Relevant validated clinical course/s.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.