Camden Learning Disabilities Service is a multidisciplinary team integrated with Adult Social Care Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Community Nurses and therapy assistants. The remit of the team is to provide person centred intervention for service users, which promotes independence, prevents unnecessary hospital admission, and reduces health inequalities. Intervention can take place in the service users own home or place of residence, or day services.
The successful applicant will provide specialist physiotherapy to Adults with Learning Disabilities in Camden. This includes completing assessments and creating treatment plans for a range of conditions as outlined in the Standards of Practice (ACPPLD). This role includes being the point of contact for physiotherapy at Alexandra College, our local college supporting young adults in education with learning disabilities.
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
Provide specialist physiotherapy for adults with a learning disability where access to generic physiotherapy treatment is not appropriate for them working to the Standards of Practice (ACPPLD).
To be the main point of contact for physiotherapy with within the Alexandra College, attending fortnightly meetings, liaising with AC staff and the rest of the physiotherapy team, ensuring that reports and annual reviews are completed on time.
To hold a clinical caseload for clients including some clients from Alexandra College who have may complex needs.
To manage cases transitioning both into the college and out of the college.
Use Physiotherapy skills to treat complex muscular-skeletal physical problems which often occur in combination with other cognitive and/or sensory disabilities.
Be an active member of the multi-disciplinary team and contribute appropriately to all service requirements and developments
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Synnove Naesheim Job title: Clinical Lead Physiotherapist Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 02079742626
