Job summary
The Postholder rotates through speciality pathways and works under supervision of an
allocated Specialist Physiotherapist or Team Lead.
Physiotherapy rotations include:
A+E, Acute Medicine, Medical Rehabilitation, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Respiratory Medicine, ICU, Stroke, Neuro In-Patients, Musculoskeletal Outpatients.
Clinical Governance and clinical support will be provided to rotational staff by the Team
Leads and Physiotherapy Site Lead for QEH.
The postholder is a clinician who independently manages a full clinical caseload working as
part of a specialist pathway team in each rotational area.
The postholder may be required to work at any of the sites within the Trust.
7-day working for Therapies is under development within the Trust and the postholder may
be required to work at weekends on a roster basis during some of the above rotations.
Main duties of the job
1. To undertake all aspects of clinical duties and to carry a full caseload of patients as
an autonomous practitioner.
2. To be professionally and legally accountable for a patient caseload and to decide
priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional
demands
3. To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own
work. This will include the management of clinical risk, clinical governance,
Band 8C Head of Therapies
Band 8b Head of Adult
Physiotherapy
Band 8a Physiotherapy Site
Leads QEH
Inpatients/ Outpatients
Band 7
Physiotherapy Team Leads: Respiratory;
ICU; Medicine; Outpatients; Trauma &
Ortho; Stroke; AMU, MSK
Band 6 Specialist
Physiotherapist
Band 5
Physiotherapy staff
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knowledge of indications and precautions of chosen techniques in line with National
and Trust clinical guidelines and protocols where they exist.
4. To assess patients capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where
such capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management
of the patient
5. To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients,
using investigative, palpatory, analytical and clinical reasoning skills
6. To undertake physical treatment techniques utilising developed manual skills
About us
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS
Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high
quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs
of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley.
With a turnover of around
£700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich,
University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We
also provide some services at Queen Marys Hospital in Sidcup.
The Trust has 7,500 staff and
we have recently invested in our workforce to grow our establishment across a
number of key services. In 2020 we won a London NHS Parliamentary Award
in recognition of a wide range of initiatives to make the organisation a great
place to work. We are accredited as a flexible working employer offering a
number of flexible working options for staff. We are also accredited as a
London Living Wage employer for our substantive, bank and contractors
Job description
Job responsibilities
To formulate individualised clinical management programmes, utilising a wide range
of treatment skills and options to plan a suitable programme of care
To use recognised outcome measures to evaluate the effect of Physiotherapy
interventions and ensure that treatment programmes are progressing appropriately.
To provide advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines and
agencies. To promote understanding of the aims of Physiotherapy and to ensure
continuation of the treatment programme.
To participate in and where indicated, initiate multidisciplinary/multi-agency team
meetings and case conferences to ensure the co-ordination of patient care. This may
include the review of patient progress and discharge planning
To ensure accurate, comprehensive and up to date clinical records are maintained in
accordance with Trust guidance and professionally agreed criteria
To identify and employ suitable verbal and non-verbal communication skills with
patients where there may be barriers to understanding or the inability to accept
diagnosis. To facilitate the best possible communication outcome in every situation
and use appropriate services e.g. interpreters, SALT
To ensure that individual practice and that of the local pathway team is user focused
and patient views are incorporated into treatment planning
To employ appropriate skills such as persuasion, motivation and negotiation to gain
co-operation in the continuation of the agreed treatment programme
To communicate with empathy, patient information which may be of a complex and
sensitive nature including details of prognosis or disability that may be unwelcome
To receive complex patient related information from patients, relatives, carers and
other professionals to effectively plan and develop individual case management
To communicate and advise regarding complex patient related information effectively
to ensure collaborative working within the Physiotherapy service and with other
professionals across health and other agencies to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multidisciplinary service
To be integral in discharge planning including liaison with referring hospitals or
community staff to which patients are discharged, providing timely discharge reports
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To produce comprehensive patient related reports for other disciplines or agencies
relating to assessment findings and/or treatment outcomes
To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own work through audit, outcome
measurement, the application of evidence based practice and research where
appropriate.
To facilitate the implementation and evaluation of Physiotherapy clinical outcomes
within a designated pathway and monitor adherence with professional and national
standards
To work to Trust and College of Physiotherapy clinical guidelines and have a good
working knowledge of relevant national standards to which quality of practice should
be monitored
To follow service policy regarding current clinical and service developments
To be accessible and provide clinical advice to colleagues
Once considered competent, to participate in the on-call, week-end, bank holiday and
extended working rotas where clinically appropriate
2
To fully participate in whatever pattern of working is required by the service in the future
Job description
Job responsibilities
To formulate individualised clinical management programmes, utilising a wide range
of treatment skills and options to plan a suitable programme of care
To use recognised outcome measures to evaluate the effect of Physiotherapy
interventions and ensure that treatment programmes are progressing appropriately.
To provide advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines and
agencies. To promote understanding of the aims of Physiotherapy and to ensure
continuation of the treatment programme.
To participate in and where indicated, initiate multidisciplinary/multi-agency team
meetings and case conferences to ensure the co-ordination of patient care. This may
include the review of patient progress and discharge planning
To ensure accurate, comprehensive and up to date clinical records are maintained in
accordance with Trust guidance and professionally agreed criteria
To identify and employ suitable verbal and non-verbal communication skills with
patients where there may be barriers to understanding or the inability to accept
diagnosis. To facilitate the best possible communication outcome in every situation
and use appropriate services e.g. interpreters, SALT
To ensure that individual practice and that of the local pathway team is user focused
and patient views are incorporated into treatment planning
To employ appropriate skills such as persuasion, motivation and negotiation to gain
co-operation in the continuation of the agreed treatment programme
To communicate with empathy, patient information which may be of a complex and
sensitive nature including details of prognosis or disability that may be unwelcome
To receive complex patient related information from patients, relatives, carers and
other professionals to effectively plan and develop individual case management
To communicate and advise regarding complex patient related information effectively
to ensure collaborative working within the Physiotherapy service and with other
professionals across health and other agencies to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multidisciplinary service
To be integral in discharge planning including liaison with referring hospitals or
community staff to which patients are discharged, providing timely discharge reports
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To produce comprehensive patient related reports for other disciplines or agencies
relating to assessment findings and/or treatment outcomes
To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own work through audit, outcome
measurement, the application of evidence based practice and research where
appropriate.
To facilitate the implementation and evaluation of Physiotherapy clinical outcomes
within a designated pathway and monitor adherence with professional and national
standards
To work to Trust and College of Physiotherapy clinical guidelines and have a good
working knowledge of relevant national standards to which quality of practice should
be monitored
To follow service policy regarding current clinical and service developments
To be accessible and provide clinical advice to colleagues
Once considered competent, to participate in the on-call, week-end, bank holiday and
extended working rotas where clinically appropriate
2
To fully participate in whatever pattern of working is required by the service in the future
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- A broad range of undergraduate experience in all core specialities of
- Physiotherapy
- Experience and ability to work
- collaboratively within MPT
Desirable
- Previous experience at band 5 level
- Experience of clinical practice
- in an NHS environment
- Experience of participating in
- audit and evidence based
- projects.
- Evidence of actively
- participating in in-service
- training and MDT groups, and
- evaluating effectiveness of
- training
- Research experience.
- Experience in managing limited
- resources and high workloads
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy.
- HPC registration
Desirable
- MCSP
- Member of Special interest
- Group
- Undertaken a range of relevant
- postgraduate courses /
- Preceptorship
Knowledge
Essential
- An understanding of evidenced based
- practice pertaining to Physiotherapy
- Awareness of national guidelines and
- standards relevant to Physiotherapy
- Understanding of clinical governance and
- its implication for Physiotherapy
- Understanding of the legal responsibilities
- of the profession
Desirable
- Awareness and understanding
- of NHS structure, current
- issues and developments
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- A broad range of undergraduate experience in all core specialities of
- Physiotherapy
- Experience and ability to work
- collaboratively within MPT
Desirable
- Previous experience at band 5 level
- Experience of clinical practice
- in an NHS environment
- Experience of participating in
- audit and evidence based
- projects.
- Evidence of actively
- participating in in-service
- training and MDT groups, and
- evaluating effectiveness of
- training
- Research experience.
- Experience in managing limited
- resources and high workloads
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy.
- HPC registration
Desirable
- MCSP
- Member of Special interest
- Group
- Undertaken a range of relevant
- postgraduate courses /
- Preceptorship
Knowledge
Essential
- An understanding of evidenced based
- practice pertaining to Physiotherapy
- Awareness of national guidelines and
- standards relevant to Physiotherapy
- Understanding of clinical governance and
- its implication for Physiotherapy
- Understanding of the legal responsibilities
- of the profession
Desirable
- Awareness and understanding
- of NHS structure, current
- issues and developments
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).
Additional information
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).
