Specialist Physiotherapist

Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious healthcare organization in Greater London is seeking a qualified health professional to provide integrated health and social care at home. The role involves facilitating patient discharges, conducting assessments, and managing treatment plans in a multidisciplinary team setting. Strong clinical and communication skills are vital for engaging with diverse clients. This position offers opportunities for professional development and supportive training environments.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programs

Opportunities for career development

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified health professional with relevant experience.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong communication skills to engage with diverse clients and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate safe discharge of patients from hospital to home.
• Conduct assessments and develop treatment plans.
• Manage a caseload ensuring high standards of care.

Skills

Clinical skills

Holistic assessment

Problem solving

Communication

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Degree in relevant health field

Job description

Intermediate Care Lambeth provides integrated health and social care at home to adults aged 18 years & older who live in the borough of Lambeth. The people that we support have a range of diagnoses and clinical presentations. Our service aims to:
• Facilitate the safe discharge of people from healthcare in hospital to healthcare at home.
• Provide intensive, short term multi-disciplinary rehabilitation & care support to promote functional independence.

Professional Offer to You

• Further develop your clinical skills
• Develop your skills in holistic assessment, problem solving, intervention planning and joint working with other health and social care colleagues.
• Develop management and operational skills.
• Access appropriate GSTT leadership development training courses to support career development.
• Support you to be involved in Physio meetings and In-service training.
• Provide supervision and clinical support.

At GSTT we are committed to providing:

• Professional expert advice, including access to our Professional Leads in our Community and Hospital settings.
• An annual appraisal and PDR.
• Structured in-service development programs and supervisions.
• Support to undertake research, audit and service evaluation.
• Training links to London Southbank and King’s College Universities.
• Support to develop your skills in preparation and presentations, Have responsibility for specialist rehabilitation and therapy assessment, specialist intervention, care planning and review of individual clients.
• Delegate tasks to RSWs Case manage people through intensive short term rehabilitation programmes.
• Goal setting with clients to maximise independence, facilitate early hospital discharge, reduce reliance on care and reduce admissions to long term domiciliary care.
• Work, as a lone practitioner and at times with colleagues, across a variety of locations within the community to meet the needs of a multi-cultural population in an inner city area.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner complying with the standards set by the regulatory body (HCPC), professional body (CSP), government, Trust and department, thereby being professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work and to meet the requirements for professional registration.
• Work as part of a flexible multidisciplinary team, across traditional professional boundaries to meet the needs of clients using a holistic and client centred approach.
• Be responsible for practice, education, assessment, mentorship and preceptorship of students and new/junior members of staff.
• Work towards organisational priorities and achieving service aims.
• Support the department’s commitment to meeting patient needs and delivering excellence it is essential the post holder be able to work their hours and contribute to both rotas over a 7 day week, including weekday and weekend.

Professional / Clinical responsibilities

• To be professionally and legally responsible for own practice and accountable for all aspects of treatment delivered to the client to ensure a high standard of clinical care.
• To work as an autonomous lone practitioner, case managing clients in the community and co‑ordinating their care.
• To carry out timely assessment, treatment, goal setting and rehabilitation of community clients to prevent admission or re‑admission to hospital or long term domiciliary care and to facilitate early discharge home from hospital.
• To be competent in using a wide variety of specialised assessment and treatment approaches with adults with a range of conditions, including those with severe physical and cognitive impairment or multiple diagnoses in order to formulate treatment plans, maximise rehabilitation potential and set goals.
• Using advanced clinical reasoning skills, analyse and interpret complex assessment findings, from both standardised and non‑standardised assessments in order to formulate an accurate diagnosis and prognosis.
• To be able to analyse and interpret complex clinical and social information from a range of sources.
• To ascertain rehabilitation potential of clients following assessment and devise both uni‑disciplinary and multi‑disciplinary rehabilitation goals which address clinical rehabilitation needs, client choice, service criteria, urgency of need and clinical risk.
• To be able to identify significant health changes that would warrant medical intervention and liaise with the relevant practitioner in a timely manner.
• To educate clients, carers and family members on the client’s medical condition, prognosis and physical management encouraging their involvement and actively promoting healthy lifestyles.
• To implement a range of interventions including, but not limited to, physical and cognitive rehabilitation in functional tasks, work and leisure.
• To undertake patient moving and handling assessments, make recommendations and provide training to informal carers when required.
• To provide recommendations for posture and seating, minor home adaptations, and specialist housing.
• Assess clients’ needs for any rehabilitative equipment and aids to improve safety and functioning within the home as part of a Trusted Assessor role.
• To train RSW's, therapy assistants, students, informal carers, family members in the use of appropriate equipment.
• Demonstrate the safe use of equipment to external providers of care where appropriate.
• Assess and manage clinical, physical and/or environmental risk.
• To adhere to incident reporting procedures and to support RSWs to do likewise.
• To act as lead health professional for clients when required. This may include initiating and co‑ordinating multi‑disciplinary/multi‑agency meetings, liaising with clients/families and onward referrals to other professionals/agencies.
• To identify significant health changes that would warrant medical intervention and liaise with the relevant practitioner.
• To liaise with the multi‑disciplinary team and identify when referral on to other professions within the team or outside agencies is indicated. This may include making recommendations on package of care needs when appropriate.
• To maintain accurate and up to date individual client records and ensure safekeeping and confidentiality of these records (including use of the Trust electronic patient records system) in line with Trust, legal and professional requirements.
• To evaluate client intervention and progress in a timely manner using appropriate outcome measures and evaluation tools. To adapt care plans accordingly and delegate tasks appropriately to RSWs.
• To discharge clients in a timely manner having reviewed the client’s needs and goals, making appropriate onward referrals where necessary.
• To participate in the duty therapy rota for the single point of access, responsible for triage and prioritisation of new referrals.
• To respect an individual’s ethnicity and cultural and religious beliefs.

Communication

• To be highly skilled in effective communication, using both verbal and non‑verbal means, with clients, carers and families who may have a range of physical disabilities or other barriers to understanding.
• To work in a client centred manner with mutually agreed goals, appointments, and rehabilitation programmes.
• Develop effective working relationships with the multi‑disciplinary team and external agencies.
• To be able to respond calmly and patiently to clients, carers and family members who may be distressed and sometimes aggressive. To offer support, reassurance and advice as required in order to diffuse the situation.
• To offer advice and communicate written and verbal information to clients/ carers and agencies including other health professionals regarding a client’s management.
• To attend regular multi‑disciplinary meetings, presenting relevant information about client caseloads in a clear and concise manner.

Management & Leadership

• Undertake supervision and appraisal of RSWs and Senior RSWs, junior staff or therapy assistants when required in line with service needs.
• To delegate tasks to therapy assistants, RSWs and junior staff, providing clear instruction and modifying tasks and care plans as appropriate based on feedback.
• To participate in the recruitment and selection of high calibre staff into the community therapy/rehabilitation teams.
• To ensure that all complaints and incidents are reported and managed in line with trust complaints procedure policies.
• To monitor the quality of the services offered and contribute to the development and review of quality measures and performance indicators.
• To manage and maintain stock levels and safe keeping of equipment, supplies and aids.
• To implement relevant national and local guidance, policies and procedures. To act as a lead in key areas in line with Trust priorities and actively engage in service development.
• To ensure all written and verbal feedback is clear, concise and accurate.
• To identify areas requiring service development and to highlight these to management.

Education, Training & Mentorship

• Provide clinical training and education to junior staff and other staff including RSWs and Senior RSWs in line with competency frameworks.
• To induct new staff and develop induction procedures if required.
• To induct, supervise, appraise and teach students on placements within the team.
• To undertake all mandatory and statutory training in line with Trust policy.
• To educate referrers and clients about the services the team offers.
• To maintain skills within the team, identifying gaps, then developing and implementing a plan to address these.
• To continually update clinical practice in accordance with current research, evidence based guidelines, audit results and government legislation.
• To actively participate in Rehab and therapies in‑service training program, undertaking a project / presentation for staff using advanced presentation skills.

Audit, Benchmarking & Research

• To participate or lead on clinical governance activities such as audit, research and data collection as required.
• To monitor the quality of services offered by the team and when areas of development are identified, to implement an action plan to address these under the direction of the Reablement Team Manager and GSTT Clinical Manager.

Personal & Professional Development

• To work within local and national clinical and operational standards and guidelines.
• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work including management of clients in your care.
• To maintain and update knowledge and skills in line with personal development plans and appraisal.
• To use evidence based practice to develop and maintain a high quality clinically effective and cost‑effective service.
• To participate self‑appraisal and performance review.
• To identify and be responsible for own training needs as well as identifying team training needs and supporting development of others.
• To reflect on practice at all times and to effectively participate in clinical supervision.
• To positively engage in change management.
• To maintain Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration and to work within HCPC Code of Conduct.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership. Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

Flexible Working

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking into account the individual’s personal circumstances as well as the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on‑boarding process. Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on the UK Government website.

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