Community Physiotherapist

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health provider in London is seeking a qualified Physiotherapist to deliver high-quality physiotherapy services. The role involves providing specialized assessment and treatment with a focus on community rehabilitation. Candidates should have a recognized degree in Physiotherapy, registration with the Health Professions Council, and ideally two years of post-registration experience. The position offers a salary between £44,485 and £52,521 per year and is full-time.

Qualifications

• Holds a recognized degree or diploma in Physiotherapy.
• Minimum of 2 years post-registration experience in relevant areas.
• Experience working in the NHS.

Responsibilities

• Deliver patient care based on best practice principles.
• Provide specialized physiotherapy interventions in community settings.
• Keep accurate treatment records in accordance with standards.

Skills

Complex problem-solving

IT skills including Word and PowerPoint

Effective communication

Clinical reasoning

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

Health Professions Council Registration

Job description

To provide high quality effective physiotherapy assessment and short-term treatment/management programs for adults presenting a range of conditions in Haringey who require a community based rehabilitation service.

To use specialist physiotherapy knowledge and skills to manage own complex caseload, as an autonomous practitioner.

To act as a source of expertise on Falls, orthopaedic and community rehabilitation liaising closely with specialist services; providing advice to patients, carers, all grades of physiotherapists, other health care professionals, consultants, general practitioners and social services.

To support the use of evidence-based practice within the service, incorporating national guidelines e.g. falls guidelines into practice.

To assist with the running of strength and balance classes in the community.

Overview

Please refer to Job description PDF to see full main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

1. To deliver patient care based on principles of best practice, achievable through direct patient contact or via supervision. To carry out specialist, comprehensive assessments of patients with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills formulating individualized management and treatment plans.
2. To provide specialized physiotherapy interventions at home or in a community setting as required, collaborating with colleagues in the community and secondary care health professionals to promote continuity of care.
3. To ensure a timely response to hospital discharges in line with Haringey's Trust policies.
4. To provide specialist assessment for and provision of multi-disciplinary equipment in line with national and local guidelines.
5. To undertake joint visits with all multi-disciplinary team members where appropriate and provide specialist advice on treatment/ management regimes.
6. To keep accurate electronic treatment records, which fulfil legal and statistical requirements, and which are in accordance with HPC, CSP, Trust and ICTT documentation standards.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

1. To work with patients and their carers when appropriate in such a way as to promote their self-management strategies.
2. To represent the service at the multi-disciplinary team meetings. This will include discussion of patient care, progress and involvement in discharge planning and continued rehabilitation needs.
3. To keep accurate treatment records, which fulfil legal and statistical requirements, and which are in accordance with HPC/CSP/Trust/departmental standards.
4. To provide comprehensive progress and discharge reports to GPs, consultants, patients, members of the multi-disciplinary team and other patient services.
5. To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload at all times.
6. To work flexibly to provide cover in other clinical areas when required due to staff shortages.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Holds a recognized degree or diploma in Physiotherapy
• Registration with the Health Professions Council
• Attendance on courses related to Physiotherapy e.g. Falls prevention
• Member of the CSP and relevant Clinical Interest group e.g. AGILE

Skills & Abilities

• Essential IT skills, including Word and PowerPoint.
• Able to communicate complex and sensitive information in written, verbal and presentational form to patients, carers and staff within the Trust and across other organisations.
• Able to apply problem-solving skills to complex situations, which may include clinical or organisational issues.

Experience

• At least 2 years post-registration experience, including rotational experience and evidence of dedicated clinical practice and post-graduate professional development in relevant areas of physiotherapy
• Experience of working in the NHS

Knowledge

• Knowledge of current NHS priorities and policy
• Understanding of clinical governance activity and its application to physiotherapy services and practice
• Knowledge of Physiotherapy professional issues
• Knowledge of other medical conditions which you may encounter including, but not exclusively, respiratory, orthopaedics and conditions of old age
• Evidence of attendance of post-graduate training related to the post
• Knowledge of the audit cycle and its uses

Experience

• Experience of running Falls/Balance/other groups
• Experience of organising, writing and delivering in-service training programmes
• Experience of involvement in clinical governance/service improvement initiatives
• Experience of taking physiotherapy students on clinical practice placements
• Experience of working with the voluntary sector
• Experience of supervising junior and non-qualified staff, including participation in personal development reviews

Skills & Abilities

• Able to communicate complex and sensitive information in written, verbal and presentational form to patients, carers and staff within the Trust and across other organisations
• Able to apply problem-solving skills to complex situations, which may include clinical or organisational issues
• Ability and competency in using a range of therapeutic skills including but not exclusively, various assessment techniques, handling skills, manual handling techniques, exercise therapy, and splinting

Other Qualities

• Commitment to holistic patient management and the promotion and progression of physiotherapy in the community

Knowledge

• Up to date and advanced knowledge of a variety of physiotherapy concepts and approaches, and of current best practice within stroke rehabilitation
• Knowledge of Neurological condition pathologies including stroke and their management
• Knowledge of the falls strategy, and the NSF for long term conditions and related frameworks
• Knowledge of outcome measure tools relevant to community Physiotherapy and rehabilitation, and ability to select and justify their use
• Demonstrate an understanding of responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act and of assessing risk within clinical work

Skills & Abilities

• Developed clinical reasoning skills with an ability to develop client centred, realistic and achievable goals
• Able to assimilate and analyse complex clinical information
• Understanding of issues involved in offering a service to a diverse community, and of practical ways to ensure that the service is culturally appropriate and accessible
• Able to identify your own development needs
• Well-developed and effective communication, motivational and persuasive skills
• Well developed counselling and advocacy skills to support staff, patients and carers
• High level of organisation skills and ability to prioritise own caseload

Other Qualities

• Ability to work in the community in patient's homes and to travel around the borough
• Willingness to work on any site as service requirements dictate, and as appropriate

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.

£44,485 to £52,521 a yearPer Annum Including HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

220-WHT-3439

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