Job description

Welcome to Gloucester!

A bustling, cosmopolitan city surrounded by the beautiful Cotswolds and yet within easy access to the Midlands and South West of England.

If you are Band 5 physiotherapist seeking to develop your clinical skills within Mental Health, then we would love to hear from you.

What we do: Charlton Lane Hospital provides inpatient care forolder adult mental health across 3 in-patient wards: Chestnut Ward, is a 14bedded andMulberry Ward, an 18bedded ward for Older age Adults with functional mental illness. Willow Ward, is a 16 bedded ward predominantly for older adults with an organic mental illness such as Dementia.

We want you: if you have a passion for rehabilitation, thrive working within multidisciplinary teams and have innovative ideas to develop and deliver personalised care plans that support people to maintain both their mental and physical health and wellbeing. You will need excellent communication skills and commitment to high quality patient care alongside flexibility and resilience to meet the challenges of working within a mental health setting .

We will give you: A chance to work with older adults presenting with functional mental health diagnoses and dementia, supported by clinical specialists, service leads, Occupational Therapists, Exercise and Health Practitioners and the wider Multidisciplinary team, to help you grow and develop your professional and clinical skills in a variety of areas.

The Physiotherapy Team provides:

• Musculoskeletal assessment and treatment
• Falls risk assessment and management
• Respiratory care
• Support End of Life Care
• Specialist equipment prescription
• Functional rehabilitation and exercise
• Risk assessment
• Health promotion

The Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy teams work very closely within the hospital. As a band 5 working in our team you will also work alongside a wide Multi-Disciplinary Team provide client centred care to our service users and their family/carers.

You will be supported to develop as a physiotherapist through regular Supervision, Appraisal, Preceptorship, Observed Practice, In-service Training, Journal Club and External Training.

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are supportive of the people we care for in the community and aim to provide a fully responsive service to everyone who needs it. This is the same approach we take for our employees. We look to value the skills and experiences of those we work with, whether they are service users, carers, families or those looking to work with us.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The difference is the Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we are able to work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.