Specialist Community Physiotherapist

The Bexley Community Health Rehabilitation Team are seeking an enthusiastic Physiotherapist to join our team. The team comprises of Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists and Therapy Assistant Practitioner's. The service works with acute hospitals to provide a seamless pathway to support safe and proactive discharge. The service is well established and was developed to work with adults within their home and in clinics, to enable them to realise their potential and functional independence and improve quality of life with a view to promoting healthy and active aging., The Community Health Rehabilitation Team provides rehabilitation, including Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, to adult client's living in the borough of Bexley, across various community settings and in their homes. The physiotherapist will work as part of the multidisciplinary team to meet the rehabilitation needs of the service users and their carers, enhancing independence, safety and quality of life; maintaining people in their own home environments in conjunction with Social Care colleagues.

• To provide Physiotherapy input to clients referred to the service.
• To practice within the multidisciplinary team as an autonomous practitioner, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice
• To work in line with the Trust objectives for community practice.
  
  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 and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of 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 and 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're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care