Highly Specialised Elbow Arthroplasty Physio with Research Role

NHS Jobs; Wigan; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Highly Specialised Elbow Arthroplasty Physiotherapist with a research role to lead a designated area of musculoskeletal care. You will deliver advanced physiotherapy management for elbow arthroplasty patients and contribute to service evaluation and audit projects.

You will develop protocols, supervise staff, participate in CPD, and collaborate with the IDT to ensure evidence-based care.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership for elbow arthroplasty patient care and plan efficiently with regard to patient management.
• Develop and deliver research, service evaluation and audit projects, including protocol development and dissemination.
• Lead day-to-day management for designated staff and supervise practice to ensure high standards.
• Maintain CPD participation and implement evidence-based care within musculoskeletal services.
• Collaborate with the MDT to deliver specialist physiotherapy services and contribute to policy development.

Job description

Highly Specialised Elbow Arthroplasty Physio with Research Role

Key results from the job holder To provide clinical leadership for a designated area of work and to plan and organise efficiently and effectively with regard to patient management and use of time. To maintain own clinical professional development (CPD) by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments, and incorporate them as necessary into the work of the team. To establish priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands, and ensure that they remain in accordance with those of the service as a whole. To develop and deliver research, service evaluation and audit projects, including protocol development, grant applications, dissemination and implementation. To ensure excellent standards of evidence-based care are delivered in specialist area of responsibility. Provide day to day management for designated staff. Planning and Organisational Duties To be responsible for personal time management between physiotherapy services, orthopaedic clinic and research in accordance with an agreed job plan. To be responsible for a designated area of work, as agreed with the Team Lead/Clinical Lead, and to plan and organise efficiently and effectively with regard to patients management and use of time. To decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands, and ensure that these remain in accordance with those of the service as a whole. To be responsible for ensuring the effective selection and use of all treatment resources available. To be responsible for ordering, monitoring and maintaining equipment used in carrying out therapy duties, and to adhere to departmental policy, including competence to use equipment and to ensure the safe use of equipment by others through, teaching, training and supervision of practice. To deputise for the Team Lead/Clinical Lead in terms of operational issues as required. To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date documentation, in line with legal and departmental requirements and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in form of reports and letters. To be actively involved in the collection of appropriate data and statistics for the use of the therapy department. To comply with the organisational and departmental policies and procedures and to be involved in the reviewing and updating as appropriate. To be actively involved in the recruitment and selection of lower grade staff. To maintain own clinical professional development (CPD) by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments, and incorporate them as necessary into your work. To participate in the staff appraisal scheme and Personal Development Plan (PDP) as both appraiser and appraisee. To undertake the measurement and evaluation of your work and current practices through the use of Evidence Based Practice projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or with Team Lead/Clinical Lead. Use information gained to make recommendations for change. To demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and apply to work situation To undertake any other duties as considered appropriate by the Team Lead/Clinical Lead for MSK. Communications and Key Working Relationships To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure high standards of clinical care for the patients under your management, and support more junior staff to do likewise. Post holders are required to work independently, within broad clinical and professional guidelines. Work is supervised rather than managed and this supervision may be provided by peers who may be internal or external to the organisation To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnosis and prognosis in a wide range of highly complex conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive discharge plans. To produce informative and detailed information for out of Trust patient transfers for continuing physiotherapy management. To deliver the physiotherapy element of care for patients within the outpatient departments, and on occasions to deliver appropriate elements of care normally undertaken by other therapy colleagues. To represent the Trust externally (locally and regionally) regarding physiotherapy services provided to patients within the speciality. To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care. To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time. To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessment and manual treatment of patients. To participate in the development of policy and practice changes within the musculoskeletal and Therapy services which will impact on service users. To communicate complex patient-related information (as well as non-patient information) effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing and therapy colleagues to ensure delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service. To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition. Use communication skills such as persuasion, motivation explanation to encourage patients to undertake their management programme. To use communication tools (verbal and non-verbal) to gain informed consent with patients where there will often be barriers to effective communication e.g. loss of hearing, altered perception, expressive and receptive dysphasia, pain, fear etc. To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment. Responsibility for Human Resources Provide day to day supervision, management and development for designated staff, To work with Team Leaders within the Physiotherapy service to ensure smooth running of the overall service. To participate in the staff appraisal scheme and personal development plan (PDP) as both appraiser and appraisee. This will include the use of formal appraisal documentation To accept appropriate responsibility for any tasks delegated to less senior qualified or unqualified staff. To ensure that designated staff implement policy and service development changes. To work with the Team Lead/Clinical Lead and other staff in developing the strategic and operational management of the service. Responsibility for Teaching To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives,carers and other professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy, and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care To provide specialist and highly specialist advice to physiotherapy colleagues working within other clinical areas (outpatient departments, sub-acute sites and in-patient specialities etc) re: patients with upper limb conditions To provide specialist advice, teaching and training, including presentation to other members of the IDT/MDT regarding the physical and medical management of patients with upper and lower limb conditions. To educate, supervise and performance manage more junior staff, trainee assistant practitioners, physiotherapy assistants and students. This will include the use of formal appraisal documentation. To educate, supervise and performance manage via the use of competencies qualified and unqualified nursing staff, in specific areas of physiotherapy management.

Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust