Frailty Home First Response Physiotherapist - Flexible Impact

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is one of the largest healthcare systems in the United Kingdom, employing approximately 40,000 staff across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health services to a population of over 1.15 million people, and to a wider population of 2.2 million when regional and national services are included.

The role:

You need to have a live HCPC registration in order to be considered for this post.

This post is set within a multidisciplinary team working across acute and community supporting those with frailty to maximise their independence and wellbeing within their local communities, supporting early discharge and preventing avoidable hospital admissions.

We welcome applications from experienced and innovative practitioners with an appetite for service improvement and self-development. This post will work across the primary secondary interface, and join the HFRS team aligned within acute front doors in Renfrewshire City HSCP areas. Critical to the success of these roles will be facilitating and enabling communication between and within multi-disciplinary teams across acute and community services.

Duration, Location, and Working Pattern:

• This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Physiotherapist within Renfrewshire HSCP at Renfrewshire House
• The post is full-time although part time options may be considered provide resilience to the service
• The shift pattern for this post is five days out of seven
• These posts will be peripatetic working across acute and community to support the development of the 7 day service

Key responsibilities:

• Undertake a comprehensive assessment of frailty positive patients (including screening and multi-professional baseline assessments) with a complex presentation using investigative skills, analysing clinical and non clinical information (i.e. social information, environmental) and to provide a functional diagnosis for individual patients to determine their need for Physiotherapy intervention, using formal assessment tools as appropriate
• Following assessment, act autonomously to assess, develop, implement and evaluate Physiotherapy interventions for a range of patients. This will include patients who have highly complex presentations and those with multi-factorial health and social needs, requiring multi-service/multi-agency input. Incorporate risk assessment to maximise functional independence and rehabilitation potential within a specialist area
• Provide specialist interventions based on a problem solving and advanced clinical reasoning approach. Deliver specialist interventions using a wide range of treatment techniques. Monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention. i.e. frailty specific interventions, therapeutic handling techniques, functional rehabilitation, adaptation, specialist equipment provision and use, education and health improvement. Monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention

Knowledge, training, qualifications and/or experience required to do the job:

Education and training will be aligned to the local induction and competency frameworks.

What we offer:

We offer a wide range of supportive policies designed to enhance your employee journey, including a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, Cycle to Work Scheme, bursary scheme and extensive learning and development opportunities.

As an NHS Scotland employee, you will be entitled to:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave, increasing with length of service, plus public holidays
• Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme, including life insurance benefits
• Salary Sacrifice Car Benefit Scheme
• Development opportunities including study bursaries, e-learning and classroom-based courses
• Enhanced pay for working public holidays
• NHS discounts on a wide range of goods and services
• Confidential employee support and assistance, including counselling and psychological therapies

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, we would love to hear from you.

For an informal discussion, please contact:
Team Lead HFRS, Alison Togher, , 0781682814

Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service and the Recruitment Process: Information for candidates

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