We are redesigning our community services model and implementing a new Intermediate Care Team and therefore an exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a Band 6 Physiotherapist to deliver an urgent community response services and will play a crucial role in developing the service, providing essential support and care to individuals, with a focus on promoting independence, dignity, and well-being.
The objective is to optimise safe and timely discharge from an inpatient stay for patients that need some form of continuing care or prevent admission with interventions that can be managed at home
To provide a high standard of physiotherapy service within the Intermediate Care Service working across the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) localities, health board sites, various community settings and patient homes.
To autonomously work as well as alongside members of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring best current, evidence based clinical management of patients referred within the defined specialist clinical area.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner and will have relevant post registration experience for the role and will undertake specialist clinical duties as required within a defined specialist clinical area.
ommunicating effectively and working collaboratively with medical, nursing, therapy, and other organisational colleagues, to ensure delivery of a co-ordinated multi-disciplinary service to the patient.
There will also be a responsibility for teaching student physiotherapists to graduate level on physiotherapeutic skills and knowledge within core clinical areas.
Providing specialist assessments and advice on appropriate walking aids and other equipment provided to the patient for therapeutic interventions and to liaise with and advise patients/parents/guardians/carers and others as appropriate for its ongoing use in line with University Health Board Guidelines.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We Live By Our Core Values
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Deborah Davis Job title: Senior Advanced Clinical Practitioner Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 01656 815488
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