Band 5 Physiotherapist

Job responsibilities

Key Relationships

Day Services and Therapy team Manager.

Day Service and Therapy team

All Clinical staff within SPH

Director of Patient Care.

Head of Locality Engagement

Community health care professions and 3rd sector organisations

SPH Volunteers and volunteer resources.

SPH Fundraising, Marketing and Communication team

SPH Learning and development team and Clinical Quality Improvement Team.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical

Direct work with service users (in person and via virtual platforms) who have diverse needs using holistic assessment, individual goal setting, advice, and intervention.

Identifies the service users priorities and works with them to achieve these.

Assesses people information needs and provides/signposts to resources to meet those needs.

Promotes and embeds a culture of patient and community involvement that supports self-management, improving/maintaining independence, and wellbeing.

Appropriately refers service users onto both internal and external services.

Offers support that improves quality of life from a patients perspective.

Aims to optimise function to empower patients to live as independently as possible, maximising abilities while supporting physical and psychological adaption to their advancing, changing condition.

Promotes self-management including thorough delivery of patient education to individuals and groups.

Maintains active professional registration and to work within the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) Core Standards

Works flexibly to facilitate meeting patient and service needs.

To be able to work as an autonomous, independent practitioner.

Be supervised and work closely with the band 6 Physiotherapists.

Work with Therapy Assistants within the team.

Advises team members, staff patients and carers on functional assessment and adaptations to lifestyle or environment to maximise independence and quality of life.

Contribute to risk assessments around equipment provision, falls prevention and management, discharges from IPU.

Assess, order, and advise patients, carers and healthcare professionals regarding appropriate equipment.

Facilitate and support fatigue and breathlessness self-management education, both 1:1 and within a group setting.

Communication (KSF 3) Develop and maintain communication with people about difficult matters and/or in difficult situations

Develop and maintain communication with people about difficult matters and is able to support people in distress and have discussions around prognosis and future care options.

To communicate professionally and in a timely way with relevant internal and external health care professionals to ensure coordinated care.

To communicate with patients and families in a sensitive, supportive, and caring manner, taking account of others culture, beliefs, background, understanding and preferred way of communicating.

Provides feedback to others on their communication where appropriate.

Maintains highest standards of integrity when communicating with patients and wider public.

Maintain timely, accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date documentation using electronic patient record systems in a manner that ensures safety, continuity of care and respects peoples privacy, dignity, and individuality in line with CSP notes standard.

Demonstrates an understanding of the need and desire to involve patients and carers in decision making, offering them informed choices, respecting their views.

Work in accordance with hospice policies and information governance requirements to ensure that confidentiality is always maintained.

Proactively engages with external colleagues and organisations (including voluntary agencies) seeking opportunities for relevant collaborations to co-produce our locality-based ambition.

Act as an ambassador of the hospice, embodying our hospice values. Maintaining the highest standards of integrity when communicating with patients and the wider public.

Actively contributes to multi-disciplinary working, including attendance at meetings within the hospice team. Liaises appropriately with health and social care professionals in the community.

Personal & people development (KSF 2/3) Develop oneself and contribute to the development of others

Ensures through continuing professional development that high quality clinical practice is maintained and developed using evidence-based approach.

Takes responsibility for identifying and meeting own development needs.

To keep up to date with all mandatory and statutory training and apply learning to practice

Attends relevant training and study days as identified in Personal Development Plan and in line with the needs of the organisation.

Understands what sustains own resilience and proactively invests in this.

Seeks feedback from others about work to help identify own development needs.

Identifies development needs for own emerging work demands and future career aspiration.

Keeps up-dated on local and national developments, legislation, and policies relevant to role and services within palliative care, disease management, clinical practice, and research.

Attends and use clinical supervision effectively to aid professional development.

To participate in the training and mentoring of students and external placements.

To participate in teaching sessions where appropriate.

Health, Safety & Security (KSF 2)

Looks for potential risks to self and others in work activities and processes.

Manages identified risk in the best way possible

Takes action to manage an emergency, calling for help immediately when appropriate.

Reports actual or potential problems that may put health, safety or security at risk and suggests solutions.

Supports and challenges others in maintaining health, safety, and security at work.

Works within the guidance policy for the protection of vulnerable adults.

Ensures is up to date and adheres to hospice policies, procedures, and risk assessments to keep self and others safe at work.

Work within SPH Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Policy to ensure you safeguard the interests of all patients.

Actively promote the prevention of cross infection to and from all patients, visitors staff, and the environment, by encouraging and educating others in the use of standard precautions.

Report any accidents, incidents and near misses via the SPH reporting system.

Is mentally and emotionally resilient in order to offer support to patients and their carers.

Service Improvement (KSF 2) Contribute to the improvement of services

Develop positive and productive working relationships with other care providers that enable mature partnership working.

Discusses with team the likely impact of changing policies, strategies, and procedures on practice. Also, about changes the team can make and how to make them effective.

Evaluates own and others work when needed.

Make suggestions to improve the service.

Constructively identifies where new ways of working, policies or strategies are having a negative impact on the service given to users or the public.

Is accountable for all aspects of own work in accordance with the Chartered Society of Physiotherapist (CSP)Professional Standards 2021 and the HCPC standards of proficiency, conduct, performance, and ethics.

Takes on new work when agreed and make changes to own work,

evaluating changes made. This includes consideration of how service improvements will enable equal access to our services and build collaborative services that reach all communities in alignment with

SPH strategic intentions.

Identify and utilise appropriate outcome and service impact measures, which accurately evaluate patient response and service development needs.

Quality (KSF 2) Maintain quality in own work and encourage others to do so

Works within the limits of own competence and area of responsibility and accountability. Seeks help and advice where needed.

Works to support the team. Can be counted on when people ask for help or support.

Prioritises own workload and manages own time to ensure priorities are met and quality is not compromised.

Monitors the quality of work in own area and alerts others to quality issues, reporting any errors or issues to the appropriate person.

Demonstrate a commitment to developing research/audit skills and contribute to the research/audit or others.

Maintains professional registration.

Equality & Diversity (KSF 2)

Promotes equality and diversity in own practice, acting as a role model, ensuring adherence to policies.

Challenges bias, prejudice, and intolerance if appropriate or brings it to the attention of a manager.

Treats everyone with dignity and respect

Aware of the impact of own behaviour on others

Demonstrates sensitivity and respect for people from different religious and cultural background and sexual orientation

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Physiotherapy (A)
• Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) (A)
• Registration with the Chartered Society or Physiotherapy (CSP) (A)
• Evidence or further study and continuous development. (A/I)
• Full driving licence (A)

Desirable

• Relevant validated academic courses and clinical courses (particularly in palliative care) (A/I)
• Advanced communication skills training (A/I)
• Mentoring or teaching course/module (A)

Skills

Essential

• Good knowledge of Physiotherapy in relevant areas (A/I)
• Self-directed learning (A)
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within an MDT (internal and external) with a diverse patient population (A/I)
• Ability to prioritise workload and organise own work (A)
• Ability to evaluate and assess interventions (A)
• Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments (A)
• Excellent communication and social skills, able to demonstrate the ability to use these skills in an environment associated with regular exposure to highly emotional and distressing circumstances. (A/I)
• Ability to critically appraise (A)
• Takes responsibility for own actions. (A)
• Competent IT skills. Able to use Microsoft office, Word, and an aptitude for learning and developing IT skills necessary for post. (A)

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Flexible and adaptable (A)
• Innovative and enthusiastic (A)
• Reliable and punctual (A)
• Self-motivated and able to motivate others (A)
• Non-judgemental, and empathetic (A)
• Positive, approachable, and engaging with the common goals and strategy of the hospice. (A/I)
• Works inclusively and has a genuine appreciation of the value of diversity (A)
• Committed to personal and team development including sharing knowledge and teaching skills in 1:1 and group setting (A/I)
• Reflective practitioner who has resilience to being alongside suffering, loss, and grief. (A/I)
• Able to maintain judgement under pressure (A/I)
• Willingness to learn and adapt (A)
• Works well in a team, being open and honest (A/I)
• Self-aware with mechanisms in place to maintain work/life balance (A)
• Commitment and ability to demonstrate St Peters Hospice values (A/I)
• A skilled facilitator, able to get the best out of people within a group situation (A/I)
• An understanding and empathy for the work of the Hospice (A/I)
• Driving license and own transport (A)

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience working as a Physiotherapist. (A)
• Evidence of working in a multidisciplinary team (MDT) (A/I)
• Experience of managing a caseload(A/I)
• Assessment and treatment using holistic approaches and/or standardised assessments as appropriate(A/I)
• Sound knowledge of current developments in palliative care(A/I)
• Up to date knowledge of adaptive equipment (A)
• Understanding of partnership working with statutory and voluntary agencies(A)
• Clinical reasoning and treatment planning. (A/I)
• Desire to work in palliative and End or Life care. (A/I)

Desirable

• Experience of working with adults in an inpatient setting, community setting and a Day service setting (A)
• Experience of relevant clinical areas including: (A)
• Rehabilitation
• Energy conservation/fatigue management
• Coordination of care across settings and agencies
• Supporting patients individually and in groups
• Supporting carers
• Experience of working with people who have a life limiting condition (A)
• Working with multi-cultural and multi-faith communities (A)
• Supervisory skills (A/I)
• Teaching experience(A)
• Participating service change (A)
• Experience and knowledge of implementing service improvement (A)
• Awareness of current issues within hospice care (A)
• Knowledge of the role of audit in relation to clinical governance (A)
• Knowledge of risk assessment (A/I)

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).