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Main area
Physiotherapy
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
201-24-283-B
Employer
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Helston community hospital
Town
Helston
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 Per Annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

Rotational Physiotherapist

Band 6

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Strategic Themes

Great Care

  • Care based on what matters to people.
  • Care provided at home or close to home.
  • Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
  • Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

Great Organisation

  • Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
  • Technology enabled care.
  • Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
  • Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

Great People

  • A place people love to work and feel valued.
  • Living our values with staff (all voices count).
  • Attract, grow and develop talent.
  • Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

Great Partner

  • Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
  • Joined-up community services.
  • Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
  • Reduce our impact on the environment.

 At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

 

Job overview

Are you an experienced physiotherapist looking for an exciting opportunity to come to West Cornwall, where you can be part of our dynamic and developing integrated community teams?

The successful applicant will join the Band 6 rotations across  Camborne/Redruth, Helston and Penwith , working with patients with a wide range of conditions including neurological, respiratory, orthopaedic, amputees, medical, palliative and long term conditions.

Bases: Camborne-Redruth Hospital, Camborne Health Office,  Helston Community Hospital and Bellair,  Penzance

 

Main duties of the job

Rotations are currently 9 months in duration, enabling you to develop skills in rehabilitation in a variety of settings including:

  • a community hospital inpatient unit with an in-reach/outreach service at Helston community hospital
  • Lanyon stroke unit at CRCH
  • the West Respiratory team at Helston community hospital
  • the Community Rehabilitation team  in the stunning far West of Cornwall, Penwith, and
  •  Kerrier Homefirst team based at Camborne Health Office.

You will be expected to carry out specialist assessment of patients as an autonomous practitioner including those with highly complex presentations, and to use advanced clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of evidence based practice to determine appropriate diagnosis and care plan utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options.

This is an ideal opportunity for a physiotherapist keen to develop his/her rehabilitation skills in the community and experience working as part of  dynamic, progressive integrated multiagency, multidisciplinary teams.

We will offer a supportive working environment in which to develop your clinical and interpersonal skills, a structured in-service training programme; appraisal and supervision system. You will be encouraged to supervise support workers and more junior staff, and be involved in the clinical education of students.

 

Working for our organisation

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.

Person specification

Education/qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree in Physiotherapy
  • HCPC registered
  • Broad range of post-graduate experience in medical, surgical, respiratory, orthopaedic or neurological settings
  • Extensive experience of working in a multidisciplinary team

skills and aptitude

Essential criteria
  • High level of assessment and treatment skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

knowledge and abilities

Essential criteria
  • Experience of managing the risks associated with managing patients
  • Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Gill Mead
Job title
Integration Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07826890715
Additional information

Caroline Mitchell  07557859972

Please note we are not accepting any communication from Recruitment Agencies at the current time.  Please refrain from Sending the Trust CV’s as this does not count as an introduction

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