Overview
This role offers an excellent opportunity to work across the South Devon Health Community, providing high-quality physiotherapy care in a wide variety of clinical settings, including ward environments, outpatient departments, intermediate care facilities, community locations, and patients' own homes.
As a member of the Bank team, the post holder will be required to work flexibly across different services and teams. The position is well suited to a confident and adaptable physiotherapist who is able to work independently, while also engaging proactively with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide timely physiotherapy assessment and treatment interventions to patients across a variety of clinical specialities.
* Utilise clinical reasoning to support admission avoidance, early mobilisation, and safe, effective discharge planning.
* Support patient flow by providing rapid access to physiotherapy interventions that promote recovery, independence, and safe transition home or to onward care from inpatient settings.
* Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid formal consent and jointly agreed goals.
* Work within the legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
* Use verbal and non‑verbal communication tools to discuss complex information with patients or carers, including those with emotional, psychological, or physical challenges.
* Maintain accurate comprehensive and up‑to‑date documentation in line with legal, departmental and CSP standards of practice, and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines.
* Represent physiotherapy and/or individual patient to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multi‑disciplinary service and integrate physiotherapy management into the overall management plan.
* Supervise and coordinate support workers on a daily basis.
* Where required, act as the sole health professional responsible for a patient's episode of care.
* Undertake advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse or complex physical, psychological, cognitive and behavioural conditions to provide an accurate diagnosis and prognosis.
Benefits of the Role
* Flexible working to support work‑life balance.
* Access to the Trust's training programmes and learning resources.
* Ongoing support and professional guidance from experienced colleagues.
* A rewarding role making a meaningful difference by supporting patients through recovery and their return to health and independence.
Employment and Equality
The Trust is committed to preventing discrimination, valuing diversity and achieving equality of opportunity. No person (staff, patient or public) will receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of the nine protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. If you require support you can obtain this from our Equality Business Forum which has representatives from all protected groups.
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