Specialist Physiotherapist - Community Rehabilitation

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., 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).

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.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk & north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester & Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics & in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training & development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) & access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health & Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff & patients.

If you are passionate about patient care & want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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