B5 Rotational Physiotherapist

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust; Taunton; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust in Taunton seeks a clinically autonomous Physiotherapist to join inpatient and community services. You will plan and deliver patient-centered care, using clinical judgement and established guidelines.

Responsibilities include comprehensive examinations, developing tailored treatment plans, guiding exercises, and contributing to discharge planning with on-call duties after qualification.

Responsibilities

• Plan and prioritise own clinical workload, service using clinical judgement and department guidelines
• Treat patients as a fully autonomous practitioner with full responsibility for, and legal accountability for, individual clinical decisions and actions
• Ensure all patients understand the physiotherapy treatment process, and have given valid and informed consent for treatment
• Complete a full clinical examination of each patient, integrating information from patient, carers, medical/nursing records and the clinical examination
• Take into account the psychological and social, as well as medical aspects of the patients' history, to provide a holistic, patient centred approach
• Formulate a clinical diagnosis and goals, following a complete analysis of the clinical examination
• Select individually tailored physiotherapy interventions / programs of care from a range of treatment options
• Carry out manual physiotherapy requiring a high precision of hand eye coordination
• Assess and evaluate the effects of the chosen physiotherapy treatment during the course, altering approach as needed
• Teach therapeutic exercises through verbal explanation, visual demonstration or guiding movements
• Use a wide variety of physiotherapy techniques e.g. manual therapy, exercise therapy, and respiratory physiology as appropriate
• Take a full part in the in-patient discharge planning process, documenting physiotherapy elements in the medical record
• Carry out all physiotherapy interventions within recognised approaches/practice
• From approximately 3 months post qualification, cover respiratory work during bank holidays and weekends as 'second on', and participate in on-call rota

Job description

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• Plan and prioritise own clinical workload, service using clinical judgement and department guidelines
• Treat patients as a fully autonomous practitioner with full responsibility for, and legal accountability for, individual clinical decisions and actions
• Ensure all patients understand the physiotherapy treatment process, and have given valid and informed consent for treatment. Where patients are not able to provide consent for treatment e.g. when suffering from severe cognitive deficits following a stroke or acutely ill say in ITU, the post holder will work within existing legal frameworks, Trust guidelines, and professional codes of conduct
• Complete a full clinical examination of each patient. The patient examination will integrate information from a range of sources such as the patient, carers, medical/nursing records and the clinical examination
• Take into account the psychological and social, as well as medical aspects of the patients' history, in order to provide an holistic, patient centred approach, referring to other specialists as necessary
• Formulate a clinical diagnosis and appropriate patient centred goals, following a complete analysis and interpretation of the clinical examination, with assistance as required from senior staff
• Select individually tailored physiotherapy interventions / programs of care, from a range of treatment options
• Carry out manual physiotherapy requiring a high precision of hand eye coordination
• Assess and evaluate the effects of the chosen physiotherapy treatment during the course of the physiotherapy treatment, altering the treatment approach/techniques as depending on success or failure of original treatment ideas.
• Teach therapeutic exercises, through verbal explanation, visual demonstration or the physical guiding of the patients movements, to patients and their carers
• Be able to use a wide variety of physiotherapy techniques e.g. manual therapy, exercise therapy, and respiratory physiotherapy as appropriate for each patient
• Take a full part in the in-patient discharge planning process, documenting physiotherapy elements of the process on the patients' medical record.
• Carry out all physiotherapy interventions within the scope of locally and nationally recognised physiotherapy approaches/practice
• From approximately 3 months post qualification, it is expected that the post holder will work on a rostered basis covering respiratory work during bank holidays and weekends as 'second on'. When relevant competencies have been mastered the post holder will take a full part in the on-call rota