Senior Physiotherapist

• Patient Care: Conduct assessments and plan treatments for patients with diverse conditions, making appropriate referrals to our partners.
• Leadership: Contribute to the MDT by allocating visits and supporting clinical and operational leads. You'll also supervise and develop colleagues, enhancing both clinical and non-clinical skills across the four pillars of practice.
• Mobility: A full UK driving license and access to your own car is essential as you'll cover various geographic areas within the CTT North service provision (Horsham, Crawley and Mid-Sussex).
• Service development and Quality Improvement: As a growing and developing service, there are many exciting opportunities to participate in creating and implementing change and utilising new skills. This can be supported by additional training and professional development opportunities.
• Clinical Excellence: Stay at the forefront of advancements in Physiotherapy, continuously improving your practice and ensuring that interventions reflect the latest evidence-based practices

Essential

• Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy.
• Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Physiotherapist.
• Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality

Essential

• Substantial relevant post-qualification experience covering a broad range
• Experience of working within a relevant specialist area
• Experience of interdisciplinary working
• Experience of supervising junior staff, assistants and students
• Experience of independently managing a clinical caseload
• Experience at contributing to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework
• Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems
• Experience within specialism underpinned by theory and specific therapeutic knowledge
• Experience of using assessment tools relevant to client group

Essential

• Able to demonstrate competency in a range of clinical skills
• Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individuals
• Able to plan and prioritise own workload efficiently
• Able to delegate work to others
• Able to demonstrate leadership in practice
• Good numeracy, literacy and IT skills
• Promotes choice and independence in undertaking patient care
• Able to demonstrate advanced communication and negotiation skills
• Able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
• Up to date knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the clinical setting
• Up to date knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
• Able to give supervision and appraisal of junior staff
• Up to date knowledge of professional code of conduct
• Able to demonstrate knowledge / understanding of boundaries of role
• Able to demonstrate how to reflect and learn from situations and identify difficulties as challenges to then work with others to identify solutions
• Able to demonstrate co-operative team working and awareness of the roles of other professionals
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to learning and development with documented evidence of CPD