Specialist Physiotherapist - Community Rehabilitation

Job overview

We have been successful in securing permanent funding to support Discharge to Assess pathways in North East Essex.  This exciting development enables us to fully integrate a range of options to support discharge plans & ongoing rehabilitation from hospital, working closely with hospital teams, reablement and homecare.

We are looking for an experienced, motivated clinician to join our team.   You will be a registered Physiotherapist with demonstrable expertise in goal focused rehabilitation, supporting patients to become experts in their own care & to remain in their own homes.

It is expected that you will have excellent communication skills, enjoy working with a variety of service users of different age groups, have good self management skills & an ability to prioritise your case load. You should ideally have experience of working in a variety of clinical settings with knowledge of the challenges of community working.

Main duties of the job

The key objectives for this post are to provide goal focused rehabilitation, supporting patients to become experts in their own care & to remain in their own homes by providing holistic assessments & interventions for this care group.

As a Senior Physiotherapist you will have opportunity to undertake a leadership role in planning, co-coordinating, delivering & evaluating the rehabilitation provided and be responsible for the supervision of junior staff. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to build networks and relationships over a number of sites and different clinical teams.  You will embrace innovation and integrated working and will be committed to delivering excellence in care alongside other Physiotherapists, OTs, Technical Instructors & Assistant Practitioners.

It is essential that you are a car driver with access to a vehicle for work.

Part time hours may also be considered

This is a Fixed Term Post until 31/03/2025 (which may be extended).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.