Quality and Care Home Liaison Team Physiotherapist- Surrey Downs H&C

Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust; Epsom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust is looking for a Physiotherapist to join their Quality and Care Home Liaison Team. You will be responsible for advanced patient assessments, formulating treatment plans, and promoting effective teamwork within multidisciplinary settings. This full-time role emphasizes professional development, clinical governance, and quality assurance in care delivery.

Qualifications

• Advanced physiotherapeutic assessment skills for complex presentations.
• Experience in delivering individual/group physiotherapy programs.
• Willingness to work with multidisciplinary teams and supervise junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Perform assessments and formulate treatment plans based on patient needs.
• Deliver physiotherapy sessions and support care home staff.
• Evaluate patient progress and adapt treatment goals accordingly.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Teamwork

Communication

Job description

Quality and Care Home Liaison Team Physiotherapist- Surrey Downs H&C

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Clinical To perform advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of the patient with complex presentations using advanced clinical reasoning skills to create targeted treatment plans using SMART goals specific to the patients condition. To formulate and deliver an individual or group physiotherapy treatment programme in line with best practice guidelines. Support and work alongside the registered and unregistered nurses within the care home and offer clinical support, training, education, advice and guidance. Support effective discharge management and prevention of readmission To promote effective teamwork within the wider Surrey Downs Health and Care, delegating activities to the wider team to the benefit of the patient and service delivery To be able to make rapid decisions where required, using clinical reasoning skills, knowledge and experience, with support as appropriate To work with multidisciplinary teams, Adult Social Care, Continuing health care, Acute staff and other relevant agencies, sharing care appropriately ensuring patients and carers receive optimum level of therapy and holistic care within available resources To evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes as required and to advise and support more junior colleagues to this effect.

To handover treatment plans to the rehabilitation assistant to support with the patient centred goals. Willingness and enthusiasm to work toward cross-disciplinary capabilities To have an awareness of local community services and be able to refer to these appropriately and in a timely manner. To be involved in clinical innovation, using research evidence based practice and clinical networks To understand clinical risk within own patient caseload and within the service and advise more junior staff, seeking guidance from fellow peers and Clinical Lead as required. Work within Epsom and St Helier policies and CSP clinical guidelines and participate in CPD to maintain professional registration.

Monitor own and others quality of practice as appropriate. To keep accurate and complete records of work undertaken in line with CSP, Community Therapy Team, Surrey Downs Health and care standards. Maintaining confidentiality and information governance standards at all times. To understand the implications of mental capacity in relation to care and discharge decisions including legal frameworks and ensure the team is working within these frameworks To teach, assess and contribute to the performance assessment of Band 6/ 5s and Rehabilitation Assistants.

To make a significant contribution to the development of departmental policies and procedures on clinical care by attending appropriate meetings and recommending changes to clinical care or service provision. Professional To maintain own clinical professional development (CPD) and incorporate them as necessary into your working practice. To actively participate in your Performance Development Plan and review process. To be an active member of the in-service training programme by attending and delivering at training sessions.

To deliver training within care homes as required to support with quality and safety To train, supervise and performance manage more junior staff and students, including formal appraisals as required. To be responsible for teaching students, physiotherapists/Occupational therapists, rehabilitation assistants, MDT members on cross competency skills. Provide support / assurance to enable discharges to be made safely to the care homes that they are working with, liaise with discharge teams and Continuing Healthcare acute practitioners- including introduction of Trusted Assessor role and Trusted Pre Assessment To undertake organisational and local audit. Undertake research projects as appropriate.

Maintain and develop evidence based practice in Intermediate Care / Frailty. To demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management within the work situation. To be professionally and legally responsible for all aspects of professional activities, working within the codes of practice, professional guidelines and Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust policies and procedures. Organisational To be responsible for the safe use of equipment used in carrying out physiotherapy duties and to adhere to departmental policies and guidelines to ensure safe use of equipment by the team.

To report defects as per policy. To share responsibility for departmental tidiness, maintenance and administration. To develop compassionate leadership awareness and be sensitive to team dynamics. Be able to respond appropriately when considering your own role and the role of others in the team, being sensitive to the needs of your colleagues.

To demonstrate flexibility according to the needs of the service and the clinical demands. To provide updates to service leaders regarding data collection, progress of potential discharges and waiting lists. Utilise IT systems to improve the efficiency of the service. This role will collate and analysis data including but not limited to ED attendances, Admissions to acute, Training etc.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Quality Assurance

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