Job summary: A fantastic opportunity has arisen within Aneurin Bevan University Health Board for a Part Time (25 hours) Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist to provide a specialist service to people with Stroke and Acquired Brain Injury within the Community Neuro Rehabilitation Service.
The Community Neuro Rehabilitation Service works across acute and community services, providing specialist skills to support the provision of neuro-rehabilitation in people's homes.
Main duties of the job: You will work with people in community settings across Gwent who have had a stroke or brain injury presenting with a range of physical difficulties. You will have experience of interdisciplinary team working, supporting junior colleagues and students, training delivery and involvement in clinical governance activities.
You will have access to support and regular continuing professional development from our Physiotherapy service.
Clinical Responsibilities
* Undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner within the community
* Be professionally and legally accountable for a designated patient caseload and decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient-related and professional demands
* Manage clinical risk within own patient caseload
* Assess patients' capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment, and where such capacity is lacking/absent, work within a legal framework in the management of the patient
* Undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative, palpatory, analytical, and clinical reasoning skills
* Undertake physical treatment techniques utilizing highly developed manual skills where appropriate
* Formulate individualized clinical management programs, utilizing a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a specialized program of care
* Provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching, and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines, and agencies to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment program
About Us
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organization with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy
* State Registered Physiotherapist (HCPC)
* Relevant clinical educators' course or willing to undertake training
* Appropriate range of postgraduate clinical education
Experience
* Broad range of post-graduate clinical experience including comprehensive rotational experience
* Comprehensive evidence of experience in Neurorehabilitation
* Experience of participating in and delivering in-service training programs
* Experience of supervising staff
Skills and Attributes
* The ability to discuss the clinical reasoning process in the management of complex cases
* The ability to identify and act upon adverse clinical signs
* Good communication skills both verbal and written when interacting with members of the team, other staff, patients, and their families
* The ability to work effectively in a team environment
* The ability to discuss the ethos of clinical governance and its relevance in physiotherapy practice
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programs, opportunities to complete recognized qualifications, and professional career pathways including a range of management development programs.
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