Community Health Improvement Coordinator - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

To provide a high standard practitioner service at outpatient and community specialist clinics/groups for those living with obesity.

To use evidence-based principles/current best practice of exercise, nutrition and behaviour change techniques to deliver lifestyle change programmes within the Physiotherapy and Nutrition and Dietetics Departments.

To actively particpate in community engagement, organising and attending promotional events within the local borough. To forge strong relations and partnerships with community organisations and the volunatary sector.

This post is a static role within the healthy living physiotherapy team across sites of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust as well as community sites in Lambeth.

Please refer to the job description for more details:
To develop and sustain partnerships with statutory, public, private and community voluntary sectors

To develop and implement engaging service promotion initiatives

To demonstrate physical ability to carry out physiotherapy interventions including leading exercise classes

To be able to cope with occasional, potentially stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner

To carry out assessment of patients as an autonomous practitioner, and to use clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of evidence-based practice to formulate appropriate care plan utilising a range of treatment skills and options

To continually reassess patients in order to progress treatments and management effectively in order to meet patient goals

To use own clinical judgement and knowledge in regards to progressing and/or modifying treatment programmes within agreed clinical protocols and

To work unsupervised by a physiotherapist for majority of the time

Department Information

The Physiotherapy and the Nutrition & Dietetics Departments are within the Therapies & Rehabilitation and the Medical Specialties Clinical Directorates, respectively.

The combined departments have over 400 staff and provide services across the Trust.

The Healthy Living service is managed within both departments and this post specifically within the Physiotherapy Rehabilitation Service and its Clinical Lead Physiotherapist.

The service provides nutritional and physiotherapy support to outpatients living with overweight and obesity and to staff throughout the department who manage the weight management services.

Organisational Values:

Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it. It is important that you understand and reflect these values throughout your employment with the Trust.

The post holder will:

Put patients first

Take pride in what they do

Respect others

Strive to be the best

Act with integrity

Our values and behaviours framework | describes what it means for every one of us in the Trust to put our values into action.