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Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist: D2A and CR-STAT

Join our dynamic, integrated team in Greenwich and make a real impact supporting patients across Discharge to Assess (D2A) Units, the D2A pathway, and in the community (CR-STAT team). Help people regain independence and stay safely at home.

• Deliver rehab in D2A units and community settings.
• Support safe discharges in collaboration with the MDT.
• Provide specialist physiotherapy across a varied caseload.
• Conduct home visits across the borough.
• Work autonomously within a supportive team.
• Align care with the Trust's community healthcare goals.

• HCPC-registered Physiotherapist.
• Experience or interest in community rehab/discharge planning.
• Confident, collaborative, and patient-focused.

• Diverse caseload and working environments.
• Supportive, innovative MDT.
• Ongoing CPD, supervision, and Trust benefits.

• Work across 2 D2A units in Greenwich and the CR-STAT team alongside a team of multidisciplinary professionals while maintaining your own client caseload.
• Undertake client assessments using standardised assessment tools and/or the single assessment process.
• Conduct holistic assessments and standardised falls assessment tools to develop a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Work with the wider multidisciplinary team to devise a holistic care plan and ensure that all health and social needs are met to reduce risks and maintain independence.
• Recommend appropriate interventions to promote independence and safety.
• Provide physiotherapy assessments as an autonomous and lone practitioner to clients, utilising effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice to develop individual care plans.
• Maintain effective multidisciplinary communications to ensure treatment goals are met and a high-quality service is provided to clients.
• Ensure safe, appropriate, and effective provision, installation, and demonstration of equipment and further develop knowledge of minor/major adaptation provision and non-stock equipment availability and use.
• Contribute to meeting performance targets for the organisation.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages, working in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector through our new provider collaboratives.

We have over 125 sites in various locations in the South of England. In London, we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind.
• We Listen.
• We Care.

• Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care.
• Accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time. Ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and support more junior staff to do likewise.
• Undertake physiotherapy assessments in the Discharge to Assess unit as well as in clients' homes, clinics, and care homes as required.
• Able to assess and treat a variety of conditions, e.g., orthopaedic surgery, mobility problems, equipment needs, falls, and other common pathologies.
• Compare and utilise appropriate treatment from a range of options to develop, implement, and re-assess physiotherapy care plans on an ongoing basis.
• Demonstrate theoretical knowledge of multiple pathologies and impairments in the assessment of community clients, often in the presence of incomplete or conflicting referral information to form accurate analyses and diagnoses.
• Monitor, review, and continually re-assess clients' care plans and objectives against outcome measures to facilitate modification of packages of care/targets as appropriate to enable achievement of their goals.
• Seek guidance from more experienced physiotherapy colleagues regarding the treatment and management of clients with complex presentations.
• Provide advice and education to clients, carers, and relatives based on clinical evidence.
• Provide falls prevention/healthy living advice to staff and clients as required, including care homes, intermediate care units, and health promotion events.
• Be responsible for obtaining client and/or carer consent prior to physiotherapy intervention in accordance with professional guidelines.
• Ensure management of clinical risk within your own caseload.
• Exhibit developed manual handling knowledge and skills.
• Prioritise your own caseload clinically.
• Communicate effectively, with empathy and reassurance with patients and carers to maximise potential and ensure an understanding of conditions.
• Delegate and monitor clinical tasks to Therapy Assistant Practitioners and Rehab Assistants.

• Degree in Physiotherapy.
• Member of HCPC.
• Member of the CSP.

• 2 years post-graduate experience with 12-18 months MSK.
• Documented evidence of CPD.
• Appropriate post-graduate experience in outpatient, orthopaedic, and rheumatology settings as a senior physiotherapist.
• Experience of audit/research.

• Understanding and application of risk management.
• Member of relevant professional group, i.e., AACP, MACP, SOMM.

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.