Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 500+ reviews is currently looking for a Physiotherapist to work for the NHS.
Location: Birmingham
Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract
Pay Rate: £25 per hour
Benefits of working with us:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years experience
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
Duties of the Physiotherapist
- To be responsible for a clinical caseload and monitor own and others workload/treatment methods in order to maintain high professional standards, advising Professional clinical Lead Physiotherapist of related issues.
- To be professionally accountable and responsible for all aspects of own work, including the management of children on the caseload.
- To assess and reassess the needs of the child, analysing and interpreting the information gathered to provide a diagnosis or contribute to the diagnosis, and formulate a treatment plan, seeking support from more senior physiotherapists as necessary.
- To provide care plans to meet goals and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions using appropriate outcome measures and make any necessary modifications.
- Implementation of an appropriate package of Physiotherapy care, by developing intervention packages to be delivered as a group or one to one sessions by the Physiotherapist or Physiotherapy assistant.
- To carry out visits to education settings or home visits as appropriate teaching others to carry out activities as appropriate to support treatment goals.
- To provide specialist PT advice and suggestions to other professionals involved e.g. doctors, Occupational therapists, nursery nurses teachers, teaching assistants, family support workers and speech and language therapists, etc
- Deliver a range of treatments, following departmental care pathways where appropriate, including Physiotherapeutic handling and positioning; group work; serial casting; hydrotherapy.
- Assess, provide and monitor the use of therapeutic equipment including seating, standing, other positioning and mobility equipment, orthotics and wheelchairs. This will involve liaising with Occupational Therapists from BCHC or the Disabled Children’s Social Care team, Wheelchair services, and Orthotist’s, teaching the parents or carers about health and safety issues surrounding the equipment so ensuring its safe use.
- Take responsibility for the delegation of physiotherapy programmes to physiotherapy assistants, acting as a mentor and supervisor to named assistants in line with the local supervision policy.
Requirements of the Physiotherapist
- Qualified physiotherapist i.e. Degree or equivalent within Physiotherapy
- Recent experience within paediatric physiotherapy
- Registered with the HCPC as a physiotherapist to work in the UK
- NHS experience would be advantageous but not essential
We welcome applications from physiotherapist within different physio services as we have other roles available within the NHS and private sectors.
Contact: This physiotherapy job is advertised by Ruben Mota; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from physiotherapists and physio assistants (Band 3, Band 4, Band 5, Band 6, Band 7 and above!) within different physio services as we have other roles available within the NHS and private sectors. Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this physio role as we need to meet our clients requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.
