Surrey Downs Health & Care Community Therapy Team
The Surrey Downs Health and Care Community Therapy Service delivers innovative rehabilitation for adults, providing joined up, co‑ordinated care to local citizens with health and rehabilitation needs. The service aims to support people living as independently as possible by offering multidisciplinary assessment and further rehabilitation. Working across organisational boundaries within the Primary Care Networks, it provides therapeutic/MDT intervention for those who would otherwise need emergency hospital admission and for those medically stable enough to return home from an acute hospital but requiring enhanced short‑term support.
This role will be based within the Cobham and Oxshott PCN.
Responsibilities
* Perform advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with complex presentations using advanced clinical reasoning skills to create targeted treatment plans with SMART goals specific to each patient’s condition.
* Formulate and deliver an individual or group physiotherapy treatment programme in line with best practice guidelines.
* Coordinate and ensure effective delivery of therapy services, liaising and co‑operating with colleagues across other PCN’s and adult social care teams to provide equitable services.
* Evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes as required, and advise and support more junior colleagues. Handover treatment plans to the rehabilitation assistant to support patient‑centred goals.
* Refer to local community services appropriately and in a timely manner.
* Understand and manage clinical risk within own patient caseload and within the service, advising more junior staff and seeking guidance from Band 7s/Clinical Lead as required.
* Keep accurate and complete records of work undertaken in line with CSP, Community Therapy Team and Surrey Downs Health and Care standards, maintaining confidentiality and information governance at all times.
* Teach, assess and contribute to the performance assessment of Band 5s and Rehabilitation Assistants.
Partners
* GP federations: GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network
* Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
* Surrey County Council
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