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We are seeking a skilled Band 6 Senior Physiotherapist to join our Acute and Emergency Medicine Therapy Team. Our Therapy department is full of opportunity for enthusiastic and highly motivated Therapists wishing to expand their skills in the exciting area of acute medical care. You would be working on the acute medical wards within a Multidisciplinary Team. We pride ourselves on providing excellence in care for all of our patients under guidance of highly respected organisations such as the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) and National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
This role is an opportunity to provide innovative and comprehensive assessment to a wide range of patient demographics arriving on the acute medical units, ensuring a wide range of skill acquisition will be achieved. You will have the opportunity to assess and treat a wide range of patient cohorts; frailty, falls, major trauma, dementia, delirium, musculoskeletal injuries, trauma, respiratory, neurological conditions and other acute or long term conditions.
- To provide a high standard physiotherapy service to patients in all service areas.
- To acquire and demonstrate knowledge of relevant pathologies, conditions, normal values relating to the specialist area of physiotherapy.
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care.
- To undertake a comprehensive assessment and re-assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentation.
- To communicate effectively, using a range of verbal and non-verbal skills, with patients and carers/family to motivate, engage to participate in therapy and to ensure an understanding of their condition.
- To deal sensitively and constructively with patients and carers/family, who have high levels of anxiety frustration or aggression caused by a variety of issues, such as pain, poor prognosis or limited mobility.
- To plan and prioritise own caseload independently on a day-to-day basis to ensure patients are appropriately seen, in conjunction with the priorities of the team and to give assistance to other team members as required.
- To be flexible in the organisation of own caseload and to respond to predictable and unpredictable service needs throughout the day.
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nicola Crossey Job title: Clinical Lead for OT and PT Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 07775227975
