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This role offers an excellent opportunity to work across the South Devon Health Community, providing high-quality physiotherapy care in a wide variety of clinical settings. These include ward environments, outpatient departments, intermediate care facilities, community locations, and patients’ own homes.
As a member of the Bank team, the post holder will be required to work flexibly across different services and teams. This position is well-suited to a confident and adaptable physiotherapist who is able to work independently, while also engaging proactively with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team.
Benefits Of The Role
- Flexible working to support work–life balance
- Access to the Trust’s training programmes and learning resources
- Ongoing support and professional guidance from experienced colleagues
- A rewarding role making a meaningful difference by supporting patients through recovery and their return to health and independence
Duties
This role provides a valuable opportunity to broaden clinical experience, develop professionally, and make a meaningful contribution to patient care within a supportive and collaborative health community
- To provide timely Physiotherapy assessment and treatment interventions to patients presenting across a variety of clinical specialities. Bank work placement could be across any of the following clinical care settings: MSK outpatients, acute and community inpatient settings, including neuro and community settings, including Intermediate care, Neuro and Community Physiotherapy
- To utilise clinical reasoning to support admission avoidance, early mobilisation, and safe, effective discharge planning.
- To support patient flow by providing rapid access to physiotherapy interventions that promote recovery, independence, and safe transition home or to onward care from inpatient settings.
- To work within the legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment
- To provide support to Band 3/4/5’s and students as is required
- You will provide senior leadership to their specialist area and deputise for the Band 7 in their absence, and take operational management of the team, allocating and organising the work to meet daily priorities.
Why Work With Us
At Torbay and South Devon, we value our people and the diverse experiences and contributions they bring. We’re proud to be an inclusive organisation where everyone is supported to make a real difference. So why not join us?
For further details / informal visits, contact:
Name: Chloe Jarman
Job title: Interim Team Lead
Email address: chloe.jarman1@nhs.net
