Community Band 6 Physiotherapist

Job Overview

Ealing Short Term Rehabilitation Team - Band 6 Physiotherapist

Are you an innovative, organised and motivated physiotherapist with a strong interest in community? Would you like to work in a friendly and supportive team with a focus on further learning and developing clinical skills? We have exciting opportunities for a Band 6 physiotherapist to join our specialist multidisciplinary community short term rehabilitation service.

You will be passionate about the value of community rehabilitation and preventing hospital admissions.

The successful candidate will be an experienced clinician with the ability to motivate and inspire others. They will have a proven track record of providing expectational care to service users and carers while supporting the delivery of an excellent service.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

A high level of skill is required to manage the risk of supporting patients and delivering their rehabilitation needs in their own homes/ care homes and also supporting the multi-professional team with understanding Physiotherapy needs. There will be opportunities to participate with practice placements of physiotherapy students, help develop the service for the benefit of patients and work closely with all members of the multi-disciplinary team.

The successful candidate will also be expected to provide supervision and annual appraisals to other members of the team in order to ensure quality assessments and interventions across the service. You will also receive regular supervision, support and annual appraisal from your line manager as well as peer support across the service. Regular training and updates are provided as part of this role, as well as opportunities to develop your skills and expand your role within the team.

Weekend Working is also an essential element of this role as you will join the rota.

Working for our organisation

Come and join the Allied Health Professions within ECP, a part of CNWL. Physiotherapy in CNWL is very fortunate in having an established professional structure including an AHP director, Trust wide Professional Head of Physiotherapy, borough and specialist lead therapists. This has the huge benefit of ensuring representation of the profession at all levels both strategically and operationally.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken. To work within the standards and guidelines of the team, the Trust, the CSP Code of Professional Values and Behaviour and the HCPC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics.
• To undertake physiotherapy assessment of patients, with diverse needs through subjective questioning and objective assessment.
• To prioritise factors involved in the patient’s presenting condition through clinical reasoning based on knowledge of current professional opinion, prognosis and other physical, social emotional and mental health issues.
• To set goals for treatment with patients and/or their carer and ensure that care is patient centred and agreed by the patient and/or their carer.
• To set and maintain a high standard of clinical practice which is evidence based, using standardised assessment and outcome measures where appropriate
• To independently screen and assess multi-disciplinary referrals from a variety of sources. This screening requires individual responsible action when at times limited other professionals are currently involved. This screening will establish priority, determine needs and initiate a plan of intervention.
• To manage a caseload of patients with a range of needs, utilising supervision and guidance as necessary from senior staff. To successfully monitor, evaluate and review physiotherapy treatment/interventions within a multi-disciplinary framework and to modify as necessary taking a key worker role as indicated.
• To use knowledge of other multi-disciplinary roles and external agencies to ensure effective referral management and achieve best patient care.
• To have the ability, knowledge and skills required for safely moving and handling people in community environments.
• To ensure patient and service records are recorded and maintained on IT databases and that patient documentation is according to trust and local policies.
• To prescribe, delegate and monitor the work of rehabilitation assistants and counter sign documentation.
• To educate and teach relevant carers/health workers to participate in on-going rehabilitation care programmes for patients, as appropriate.
• To actively be involved in service development, with support and guidance from senior therapy staff.
• To manage clinical risk in own caseload and ensure that rehabilitation assistants and students comply e.g. manual handling risk assessment and local policy regarding lone working.
• To maintain and update a Continuing Professional Development Portfolio (CPD).
• To evaluate own practice through audit and outcome measures with support of senior therapists when required
• To utilise opportunities to develop skills and knowledge, apply critical appraisal and keep up to date with current practice in the field and attend accredited courses.
• To participate in the in-service training, post registration training, lectures and education programmes to other therapists, other disciplines and to visitors to the service.
• To act as professional practice educator for physiotherapy students.
• To participate in education programmes for patient groups when indicated.
• To actively participate in health promotion and health education initiatives
• To comply with all mandatory training
  
  

Management

• To ensure that accurate and evaluative records of patient care and statistics are maintained in accordance with the service policy.
• To participate in the individual performance review system.
• To provide supervision, annual appraisal and monitoring the work of junior staff including Band 5s, rehabilitation assistants and students with support from senior staff.
• To provide informal day to day support to junior staff members.
• To be responsible for the safe use of all equipment.
• To ensure that all equipment defects, accidents and complaints are reported via the Datix System and escalated to senior staff for further resolution if required.
• To comply with Trust policies and procedures.
• To participate in the collection of statistics and audit programmes as required by the service.
• To participate in the induction of new staff members.
• To attend, actively participate in and as required initiate multi-disciplinary meetings and case conferences.
• To attend physiotherapy staff meeting and other relevant meetings.
• To use time management skills, to respond to demands from patients and staff on daily basis.
  
  

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree in Physiotherapy
• Registration with HCPC as a physiotherapist
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Membership and/or involvement in a special interest professional network
• Member of CSP
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous experience of working in the UK or a similar health economy as a physiotherapist.
• Previous general experience to include the following:
• Older people/elderly rehab
• Medicine & general surgery
• Orthopaedics
• Falls
• Dementia
• Long term conditions
• Experience of teaching juniors & assistants
• Experience of completion of audit and service developments
• Experience in assessing and treating patients with a variety of health conditions
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner in a community setting
• Previous general experience to include the following:
• Community working
• Neurology
• Pain Management
  
  

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication skills, fluency in written and verbal English
• Demonstrates flexibility, problem solving, initiative and leadership skills
• Able to demonstrate clinical and professional development
• Ability to work independently and prioritise workload pressures with effective time management skills
• Understanding the principles of MultiDisciplinary Teamwork
• Understanding of the problems of disability and its effects and shows a commitment to working with older people
• Demonstration of knowledge of standards of practice, evidence and best practice guidelines
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of the physio role in rehabilitation as well as the role of other professionals in MDT
• Able to demonstrate insight into the problems of disability and its effects
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of the application of Health and Safety
• Evidence of maintenance of a CPD portfolio with self-directed learning and Reflective practice
• Knowledge of developments within NHS community rehabilitation and physiotherapy profession.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Excellent IT skills including Outlook, Word, Excel, databases etc
  
  

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics

Essential criteria

• Personally and professionally responsible
• Able to motivate self and others.
• Ability to work in a stressful environment with distressed, emotional or aggressive patients/cares.
  
  

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel across the Trust to fulfil the requirements of the post and carry equipment
• Able to work over 7 day week, including weekends as part of a rota
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Car owner and able to use car for work and carry equipment