What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Physiotherapist - Ward & Community - Monnow Vale position at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board?
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job Overview
A development opportunity has arisen for a senior physiotherapist to work as part of a friendly and supportive team on a 21-bedded GP-led rehabilitation and complex discharge ward.
The post is based at Monnow Vale Health & Social Care Facility in the market town of Monmouth and, alongside ward-based work, will involve providing a follow-up service into the community which covers a large rural area.
The successful candidate will work alongside nursing and health care support staff, a dedicated ward social worker, an occupational therapist and a therapy technician.
As part of a wider integrated community team there are plenty of opportunities for shared training, shared working and support.
Main duties of the job
To provide a physiotherapy service to a 21-bedded GP-led, ward.
To provide physiotherapy assessment and intervention to people with a range of diagnoses and with rehabilitation and complex discharge needs.
To carry out complex assessments in moving and handling, specialist seating and bed positioning.
To attend and contribute to the weekly multi-disciplinary meeting and to family meetings.
To be person-centred at all times and to have a good understanding of the mental capacity act and how this impacts on assessment and intervention.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job Overview
A development opportunity has arisen for a senior physiotherapist to work as part of a friendly and supportive team on a 21-bedded GP-led rehabilitation and complex discharge ward.
The post is based at Monnow Vale Health & Social Care Facility in the market town of Monmouth and, alongside ward-based work, will involve providing a follow-up service into the community which covers a large rural area.
The successful candidate will work alongside nursing and health care support staff, a dedicated ward social worker, an occupational therapist and a therapy technician.
As part of a wider integrated community team there are plenty of opportunities for shared training, shared working and support.
Main duties of the job
To provide a physiotherapy service to a 21-bedded GP-led, ward.
To provide physiotherapy assessment and intervention to people with a range of diagnoses and with rehabilitation and complex discharge needs.
To carry out complex assessments in moving and handling, specialist seating and bed positioning.
To attend and contribute to the weekly multi-disciplinary meeting and to family meetings.
To be person-centred at all times and to have a good understanding of the mental capacity act and how this impacts on assessment and intervention.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or Postgraduate Diploma in Physiotherapy
- HCPC
- Post-graduate experience of working with people with a range of diagnoses including dementia, neurological, orthopaedic and respiratory conditions
Essential criteria
- Some specific training related to clinical area e.g. assessments for people with a range of diagnoses including dementia, neurological, orthopaedic and respiratory conditions
- Specialist knowledge and application of physiotherapy assessments and interventions relevant to intervention with people with a range of conditions
- Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues
- Application of health, safety and risk management policies
- Experience of building effective working relationships with a range of people
- Experience of working autonomously and setting own priorities
- Highly effective written and oral communication skills
- Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance and develop new methods of working
- The ability to travel within a geographical area to meet the requirements of the post.
- Commitment to client centred and non-discriminatory practice
- Ability to work flexibly and respond to unpredictable work demands
- Ability to cope with highly emotional or distressing circumstances
- Post-graduate experience of working with people with a range of diagnoses including dementia, neurological, orthopaedic and respiratory conditions
- Complex moving and handling experience
- Experience of using a 24-hour positioning approach/interest in learning
- Post-graduate experience of working in community settings
- Welsh Speaker
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