Band 7 Highly Specialist Physiotherapist in Frailty

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare facility in London is seeking a Band 7 Highly Specialist Physiotherapist to provide clinical leadership in the Frailty pathway. The role involves managing a significant caseload, ensuring clinical governance, and participating in multidisciplinary care. Applicants must possess a relevant Physiotherapy degree and be registered with the HCPC. This position offers competitive compensation and extensive professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Clinical supervision

Qualifications

• Experienced clinician with a significant caseload management.
• Ability to assess complex presentations and develop treatment plans.
• Demonstrated clinical governance and risk management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage and assess a significant caseload of patients.
• Develop and evaluate treatment programs tailored to patients.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings to ensure coordinated care.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Manual therapy

Communication skills

Clinical governance

Education

Relevant Physiotherapy degree

Registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Tools

Physiotherapy treatment equipment

Job description

Band 7 Highly Specialist Physiotherapist in Frailty

JOB PURPOSE The Physiotherapy Team Lead for Frailty at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) provides clinical leadership to physiotherapy staff working in this pathway on this site. The postholder is an experienced clinician who independently manages a significant clinical caseload. Alongside the Physiotherapy Team Lead for Medical Rehabilitation, the postholder supervises the day to day running of the Medical Rehabilitation and Frailty physiotherapy team and is line managed by the Physiotherapy Inpatient Site Lead for QEH. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Clinical To undertake all aspects of clinical duties and to carry a significant caseload of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with complex presentations To work at an advanced level and to be professionally and legally accountable for a highly-specialized patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, and of the local pathway teams work. This will include the management of clinical risk, clinical governance, knowledge of indications and precautions of chosen techniques in line with national and trust clinical guidelines and protocols where they exist. To assess patients capacity, gain valid and informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management of the patient To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients including those with complex presentation, using investigative, palpatory, analytical and clinical reasoning skills Under supervision of the Physiotherapy Inpatient Site Lead to request diagnostic procedures that will inform clinical decision making as appropriate to individual competency level and the job role To undertake physical treatment techniques utilizing highly developed manual skills To formulate individualized clinical management programs, utilizing a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a highly-specialized program of care To use recognized outcome measures to evaluate the effect of physiotherapy interventions and ensure that treatment programs are progressing appropriately To provide spontaneous and planned expert advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines and agencies. To promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment program. To be consulted by staff within the local pathway and the trust To participate in and where indicated, initiate multidisciplinary / multi-agency team meetings and case conferences to ensure the co-ordination of patient care. This may include the review of patient progress and discharge planning To ensure accurate, comprehensive and up to date clinical records are maintained in accordance with Trust guidance and professionally agreed criteria To identify and employ suitable verbal and non-verbal communication skills with patients where there may be barriers to understanding or the inability to accept diagnosis. To facilitate the best possible communication outcome in every situation and use appropriate services, e.g. interpreters, SALT To ensure that individual practice and that of the local pathway team is patient focused and patient views are incorporated into treatment planning To employ appropriate skills such as persuasion, motivation and negotiation to gain co-operation in the continuation of the agreed treatment program To communicate with empathy, patient information which may be of a complex and sensitive nature including details of prognosis or disability that may be unwelcome To receive complex patient related information from patients, relatives, carers and other professionals to effectively plan and develop individual case management To communicate and advise regarding complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working within the physiotherapy service and with other professionals across health and other agencies to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multidisciplinary service To be integral in discharge planning including liaison with referring hospitals or community staff to which patients are discharged, providing timely discharge reports To produce comprehensive patient related reposts for other disciplines or agencies relating to assessment findings and or treatment outcomes To undertake an extended scope role as appropriate to the needs of the service and supervised by the Physiotherapy Site Lead (an extended scope practitioner undertakes delegated responsibility on behalf of medical practitioner(s) including the independent management of complete episodes of care of patients from referral to discharge) To undertake the measurement and evaluation of work through audit, outcome measurement, the application of evidence-based practice and research where appropriate. To identify and initiate audit projects to review current clinical practice within the pathway To facilitate the implementation and evaluation of physiotherapy clinical outcomes within a designated pathway and monitor adherence with professional and national standards To work to Trust and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy clinical guidelines and have a good working knowledge of relevant national standards to which quality of practice should be monitored. To raise physiotherapy staff awareness of current clinical developments and the implication these may have on clinical practice To be accessible and provide expert clinical advice to colleagues in particular for complex case management Once considered competent to participate in the on-call, week-end, bank holiday and extended working rotas where clinically appropriate To fully participate in whatever pattern of working (including 7-day rosters) is required by the service in the future All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which they are deemed competent in line with guidance from their professional bodies.