Physiotherapist (Homebased) - London, United Kingdom - Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen at ESTH which provides therapy services within Epsom and St Helier Hospital and the community.

Acute services at St Helier work closely together and in collaboration with the community partners to provide a dovetailed service to mainly Sutton and Merton residents with rehabilitation needs.

This post is currently a four-monthly rotation scheme in the following areas across acute and community services under Sutton Health and Care:

• Respiratory (including ITU and HDU), medical and surgical rehabilitation (including renal and amputees), elderly rehabilitation, orthopaedics, neuro
• rehabilitation (based at Epsom Hospital), Frailty, home
• based rehabilitation, Acute Medical Unit, and Royal Marsden Hospital , Sutton

The post holder must participate in rostered weekend and evening on-call work within St. Helier hospital and across the site as required - particularly for the stroke unit rotation.
To provide a high standard physiotherapy service within each rotation undertaken.

Supervision takes the form of regular formal training, clinical reasoning sessions, peer review and case conferences.

Access to advice and support from a senior physiotherapist is available if required, clinical work should be routinely evaluated.

To undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and teams' clinical practice within each rotation. May assist the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service protocols.

To undertake training/study to ensure competency to participate in on-call and emergency duties as a lone practitioner within the trust, and thereafter to participate regularly in on-call and emergency duties as lone practitioner within the trust.

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and Northeast Surrey.

In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life.

Together with our colleagues at NHS Surreyand NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

Suitable Physiotherapy Qualification
Car driver with access to a car

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
St Helier Hospital