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Job overview

The Greenwich Reablement is seeking an enthusiastic Physiotherapist to join our Team.  The team is part of the Community Rehabilitation and Short Term Assessment Team.  The team is jointly managed by Health and Adult Services for the Royal Borough of Greenwich and comprises of Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, and Support Workers.   The Reablement Team provides support to Greenwich residents who have rehabilitation or reablement needs and allows them to be supported in their own homes. The aim of the team is to promote independence and safety of service users, to ensure care packages are appropriate and prevent early long-term placements.

The Physiotherapist will have a lead role in the MDT in designing and monitoring progress of rehabilitation/Reablement care plans for clients referred to the team.  You will provide  specialised physiotherapy input to clients referred to the Reablement team.  It will include Physiotherapy assessment and treatment tailored to the patients’ needs, patient centred goal setting, pain management and coping skills and education about the condition. The post holder will be required to work in a multidisciplinary way and work jointly with the other health and social care team members to ensure that all care needs are met. You will be required to work within patients own homes.

Main duties of the job

The Reablement Team provides support to Greenwich residents who have rehabilitation or reablement needs and allows them to be supported in their own homes. The aim of the team is to promote independence and safety of service users, reduce care packages and prevent early long-term placements. The team is managed by Social Services for the Royal Borough of Greenwich and support is provided by trained support workers. The Physiotherapist will have a role in the MDT in designing and monitoring progress of rehabilitation/reablement care plans for clients referred to the team.  The Physiotherapist will work as a part of a multi-disciplinary team, including health and social services colleagues to meet the needs of clients referred to the Reablement Team

• To conduct Physiotherapy assessment for clients receiving input from the Reablement Team
• To provide Physiotherapy treatment and rehabilitation plan for clients with the Reablement Team ensuring that support workers are able to follow the rehabilitation plan safely and efficiently with clients.
• To work within the multidisciplinary team as an autonomous practitioner, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care