Bank Specialist Physiotherapist (Rotational) Band 6

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Part time

Job summary

A large NHS Trust in London is seeking a Bank Specialist Physiotherapist to provide high-quality therapy services across various clinical areas. The ideal candidate should be able to work autonomously and demonstrate experience in an acute hospital setting. This position offers opportunities to develop skills alongside experienced clinicians in a dynamic team environment.

Benefits

Continuing professional development

Diverse working environment

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to meet Trust values.
• Experience in an acute hospital setting.
• Ability to manage clinical caseload effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard specialized physiotherapy service.
• Assess and treat patients as an autonomous practitioner.
• Supervise and teach junior staff and students.

Skills

Clinical reasoning skills

Effective verbal communication

Interpersonal skills

Computer literacy

Motivational interviewing

Education

Degree/ graduate diploma in Physiotherapy

Health Care Professions Council registration

Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Bank Specialist Physiotherapist (Rotational) Band 6

This is an exciting time to be working at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation one of the biggest NHS Trusts in the UK, delivering care to more than 2 million people a year through our four main hospitals: Barnet, Chase Farm and Royal Free and most recently the North Middlesex Hospital. Our focus is very much on Quality Improvement through innovation.

We are delighted to be looking for physiotherapists to join our pool of bank staff at the Royal Free Hampstead site. Our diverse range of specialties offers physiotherapists the unique opportunity to develop a wide range of knowledge and skills. They will work alongside highly experienced clinicians in all the areas and be part of an integrated multi-disciplinary workforce. All post holders will be expected to deliver patient focused, evidence based, high quality therapy service across relevant clinical services.

Successful candidates ae required to be able to demonstrate the Trust values, the specific responsibilities of the job description and to meet the person specification. You should have proven experience of working in an acute hospital setting.

If you believe you meet these criteria of the person specification and would like to join the Royal Free bank at this time, we would be interested in receiving your application.

**VISA SPONSORSHIP DOES NOT APPLY TO THIS ROLE**

Main duties of the job

1.To provide a high standard of specialist physiotherapy service to a widerange of Physiotherapy in-patients. This post consists of 9 monthlyrotations in the following clinical areas:

• Health Services for Elderly People. (HSEP)
• Rapid Response ( A+E and acute medicine )
• Oncology
• Respiratory
• General surgery and Liver Transplantation
• Renal
• Vascular Surgery and Amputees.

2.To assess and treat own caseload of patients as an autonomous andindependent practitioner for patients who may have acute, chronic and/or complex presentation, and maintain appropriate treatment plans, recordsand statistics.

3.To participate in the weekend and on call rota.

4.Supervise and teach junior therapists, students and assistants.

5.To be involved in the teaching of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), staffand patient education groups.

6. Undertake and present evidence-based projects and research including departmental audit and suggesting practice changes, under thesupervision of line supervisor.

7.To take an active role in own continuing professional development.

8.To deputise for team leaders as requested for the day-to-day running of a service.

**For further information please refer to the attached JD/PS**

About us

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers' money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

Job responsibilities

Royal Free World Class Values:

The post holder will offer World Class Care to service users, staff, colleagues, clients and patients alike.

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

1.To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including clinical practice, and for the work and clinical practice of line-managed staff.

2.To carry out assessment of patients as an autonomous practitioner includingcomplex or chronic presentations, using a high level of clinical reasoning skills and integrating specialist knowledge of evidence-based practice.

3.To undertake advanced, comprehensive, and where applicable, standardised assessments within a specialised field, looking at all occupational performance including self-maintenance, productivity and leisure, for patients with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies.

4.To be able to establish priority, determine needs and initiate a specialist treatment plan for patients referred for physiotherapy using judgement of highly complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.

RESPONSIBILITIES FOR PATIENTS

1.To communicate effectively with patients, carers and other professionals on an individual or group basis to maximise rehabilitation potential and ensureunderstanding of condition, which will frequently require flexible verbal and non-verbal communication skills including: motivation persuasion explanation of complex issues and negotiation

2.To demonstrate flexibility in communication and interpersonal skills to overcome barriers to communication such as: dysfunctional illness beliefs altered perception and cognition loss of hearing/sight language and cultural barriers distressing information e.g. Victims of torture/abuse environmental e.g., lack of privacy, excess noise hostile, antagonistic and highly emotive situations controversial and/or highly complex information long-term illness/dysfunction and/or uncertain prognosis.

3.To occasionally convey information, particularly in highly complex, contentious and emotive situations, which may be beyond the scope of more junior staff, which may require more developed communication skills.

4.To communicate complex patient related information effectively, to ensurecollaborative working with the multi-disciplinary team members across health and social care sectors ensuring the delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

1.To have knowledge and understanding of a variety of cultural backgrounds and beliefs to respect individuals rights and dignity.

2.To provide legal and disability reports as required with the support of the Lead Therapist.

3.To demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and RiskManagement appropriate to the work situation.

4.To contribute to improvements in service delivery and clinical practice, including integrated care pathway development and clinical networks.

**For further information please refer to the attached JD/PS**

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• Degree/ graduate diploma or equivalent in Physiotherapy
• Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration as a physiotherapist
• Certificated graduate courses or equivalent in-house training in clinical specialty areas.
• Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)
• Membership of special interest group

Royal Free World Class Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Experience

• Good understanding of relevant clinical guidelines.
• Broad range of clinical experience at a Band 5 level or above
• Experience of working in an acute, hospital-based setting, including working within an MDT
• Presentations to a range of groups
• Teaching/training of staff or students
• Supervision of more junior staff, assistants and/students
• Active participation in an audit or project work
• Computer literate, to include working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Evidence of CPD
• Experience of weekend working and emergency on-call working
• Motivational Interviewing/ Behaviour Change training (CBT or facilitation skills)
• Able to work autonomously and use initiative
• Evidence of specialist clinical skills and core Physiotherapy skills
• Effective clinical reasoning skills
• Ability to reflect on and appraise own practice
• Effective verbal communication skills with a range of patients and healthcare professionals regarding complex and sensitive issues.
• Able to manage clinical caseload and prioritise effectively
• Ability to work effectively within different teams both multi and unidisciplinary
• Ability to communicate with community partners and external agencies especially to facilitate safe and timel hospital discharge
• Ability to manage own time & meet deadlines
• Ability to be proactive in service development
• Ability to critically evaluate current research & apply to own practice
• Ability to recognise unacceptable behaviour and act on this appropriately

Others

• Physically fit and able to comply with trust manual handling guidelines

Personal Qualities & attributes

• Strong interpersonal skills, including assertiveness .
• Ability to negotiate
• Positive attitude to change; able to facilitate change within teams
• Self-motivated and able to motivate others

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.