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Physiotherapist – Nursing home step-down service 

Cpl Healthcare, in partnership with our client, a leading nursing home group, are recruiting for a Senior Physiotherapist a new Nursing home opening in Dublin city.

This new nursing home is expected to have a 140-bed capacity and will provide a step-down nursing service for admissions with mixed clinical acuity and complex care needs along with the provision of long-term elderly nursing care. 

This role would suit candidates with experience working within a primary care, rehabilitation or acute care setting working with the elderly.

The duties of this role include:

•Assess and analyse the effect of illness, disability, injury and inactivity on the functional ability of individual residents.

•Assess individual residents with actual or potential impairments or other health-related conditions using detailed history-taking, as well as reviewing Care Plans and any other documentation available regarding the residents’ condition.

•Develop and regularly review an individual treatment plan for each resident that is consistent with the individual’s goals, general health status, functional needs and assessment findings and that incorporates the application of selected approaches and techniques supported by the best evidence available. 

•Assist residents’ rehabilitation following accidents, injury and strokes.

•Evaluate the health status of each individual resident through the use of appropriate measurable outcomes as a baseline for monitoring or to determine the result, impact of effectiveness of physiotherapy intervention.

•Participate in the management of the Physiotherapy service

•Contribute to and participate in staff induction and in-service training programmes 

Interested applicants should have:

•A recognised qualification as a Physiotherapist and Professional Registration with CORU

•Three years of post-registration experience

•A minimum of one years in the care of the elderly

•This is an excellent opportunity that offers above market rate salary package

•Comprehensive induction training

•Excellent training & development opportunities

For further information, please email your c.v. to brian.murray@cplhealthcare.com or call Brian on 01 482 5421 / 087 222 6752