Job Details:
Banding: 6
Hourly Rate: £22 - £24 per hour
Working Hours: 9.00 - 16.00
Payment Method: Umbrella
Contract Type: Locum
Contact Length: Ongoing
Job Summary:
The role of the Senior Physiotherapist is to provide, develop and deliver a specialised and skilled level of Physiotherapy intervention to facilitate early discharge planning in GWH across a seven day service. This will include complex, multipathologies from Medical, surgical wards, & neurological outliers. The postholder must be aware of the total Physiotherapy needs of the Acute Physiotherapy Team, the changing demands on the service, and take action in consultation with the Team Leaders to fulfil these needs.
Main Responsibilities and Duties
1. To hold responsibility for own complex caseload and oversee team caseload, working without direct supervision. Supervision will take the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions and one to one sessions with supervisor. Access to advice and support from senior physiotherapists is available when required, but clinical work is not routinely evaluated.
2. To chair team meetings, planning staffing and workloads.
3. To liaise with other senior inpatient staff to ensure adequate staffing across teams and offer cover if required/able.
4. To represent acute physiotherapy at appropriate multidisciplinary meetings, case conferences, clinics and working groups as required.
5. To promote physiotherapy within the Trust particularly promoting our role with regards to early rehabilitation.
6. To provide clinical supervision to students in partnership with the university, and to supervise junior staff members and assistants.
7. To carry out training for new members of staff who will be working on the mobility rota.
8. To participate in weekend services according to department policies.
9. To participate in emergency Respiratory duty including weekend and overnight on-call, once trained and competent.
10. To work their contracted hours between 6am to 8pm covering 7 days a week.
11. To be aware of the objectives of the team and the Trust and work in a manner that will assist achievement of those objectives.
12. To undertake evidence-based audit, service development projects and satisfaction surveys to enhance service quality and personal clinical practice.
13. Make recommendations to clinical lead/manager of service, for changes to practice. May lead the implementation of specific changes to practice, or contribute to service protocols which may affect external agencies.
14. To complete all required paperwork and outcome measures and lead by example to ensure the whole team are meeting high standards of documentation and service delivery.
15. To work within a framework of local, national and CSP delivered standards, keeping up to date with changes to recommended practice and evaluate quality of practice.
16. To keep statistics of work done daily, either with paper records or onto the computer system.
17. To actively participate in the Clinical Governance agenda of the team you are working in.
18. To maintain and develop current knowledge of evidence-based practice, developing knowledge of particular conditions and patient types.
19. To be responsible for maintaining a professional development portfolio showing evidence of own competency to practice through all CPD activities
Patient Client Care
1. To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi-pathologies.
2. To respond to requests to reassess a changing/deteriorating patient either via telephone, bleep or verbally, causing unpredictable working patterns.
3. To set appropriate therapeutic goals based on accurate prognosis for patients to monitor outcomes, evaluate patient progress and adjust treatment required to ensure effective discharge.
4. To formulate and develop individually tailored physiotherapy treatment programmes based on knowledge of evidence-based practice and sound clinical reasoning and treatment skills, which should be under on-going review.
5. To plan and facilitate discharges to enable smooth patient flow. Liaising with and restarting care as needed, liaising with and referring to community services as needed.
6. To provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information where there are barriers to understanding, e.g. cognitive impairment, deafness, blindness, psychological problems or aphasia.
7. To communicate with people in a form and manner they prefer that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background, using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication, divulging information of a sensitive nature including patients who have difficulties in understanding or communicating, e.g. depressed, stroke patients, language barriers.
8. To gain valid, informed consent from patients ensuring full comprehension of physiotherapy intervention and to show awareness of those patients who may lack capacity to consent, eg those acutely unwell, sedated and ventilated or without the mental capacity.
9. To assess for on-going therapy needs, handing over information to appropriate staff and updating Nerve Centre, referring on and liaising professionally with the appropriate teams and services.
10. To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team, with joint treatment sessions as appropriate.
Responsibilities for People or Training
1. To assist with the training and assessment of competencies
2. To provide teaching and advice to patients, carers, MDT, and other therapists.
3. To assist with the review and development of protocols to support training based on current evidence and best clinical practice.
4. To assist with recruitment of staff.
5. To train, supervise and manage performance of more junior staff, assistants and students.
6. To be an active member of the in-service training programme, by attending and delivering presentations, training sessions, tutorials etc.
Other Factors
1. To be responsible for all equipment used by and supplied by the therapists, including the regular servicing of all equipment and the upkeep of log books.
2. To carry out on-going assessments and treatments for a wide variety of conditions with moderate physical effort repeatedly during the day.
3. The job requires concentration for most of the day often with frequent interruption especially by phone or bleep. It will be stressful at times aiming to have discharge plans in place in a timely manner especially during periods of escalation.
4. You may need to treat patients who have high levels of anxiety and aggression caused by pain, dementia or limited mobility.
5. You will need to treat patients in isolation, requiring you to wear full PPE often for prolonged periods of time.
6. You will be required to work alone in some environments and manage both the clinical and personal risk.
7. The job involves frequent exposure to unpleasant working conditions on a regular (daily basis), e.g. bodily fluids including sputum, vomit, urine, and occasional exposure to verbal and physical aggression.
8. You will frequently be exposed to distressing and emotional circumstances involving patients and relatives and occasionally have to deal with patients and relatives following a serious, traumatic or terminal incident.
9. Ensure Trust clinical and non-clinical policies, procedures and guidelines are strictly adhered to at all times.
Flexibility
This job description is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances, in discussion with the post holder. This role profile is intended to provide a broad outline of the main responsibilities only. The post holder will need to be flexible in developing the role with initial and on-going discussions with the designated manager.
Blackstone Benefits:
- Assigned specialised recruitment consultant
- Access to exclusive and flexible UK locum and permanent jobs
- Complete onboarding support
- Framework Rates
- Informed tailored career advice
- Personalised job alerts
- Unlimited referral bonus
- Prompt payroll
For further information on this role, please contact Kirsty Chasmer at Blackstone recruitment on the details provided or APPLY now.