Job summary
Working as part of the LIFE therapy team, the post-holder will provide therapy assessment and treatment of patients, identifying specialist needs and will develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
The post-holder will work collaboratively with the team and external providers, to ensure the right care, by the right person, at the right time, and in the right place. They will aim to enable patients to regain independence or achieve their optimum rehabilitation potential, and to prevent unnecessary hospital admission. In addition they will assist with facilitating early hospital discharge.
Please note: Previous applicants need not apply
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide therapy assessment and treatment of patients, participate in coordinating the service and will have responsibility of managing and supervising Support Workers and administration tasks within the LIFE therapy team.
The post holder will participate in MDT meetings and family conferences, make independent evidence based clinical decisions to influence practice, have knowledge and awareness of HR policies and ability to manage staff by utilising these policies and be responsible for their own professional development and clinical skills through attending courses, conferences, workshops and being aware of national and local policies, to develop an extensive knowledge of chronic disease processes and management.
The post holder will be expected to work in accordance with the Trust's policies taking responsibility for the Health, Safety and Welfare of self and others; to eliminate unlawful discrimination and promote equality and diversity in the workplace and positively promote equality of opportunity in service delivery. The post holder will adhere to the Trust Infection Control Policy, procedures and guidelines and ensure confidentiality at all times.
About us
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon.
These include:o Croydon University Hospitalo Purley Hospitalo The Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre in Thornton Heatho Community bases at Purley, Sanderstead, New Addington, Broad Green, Woodsideo A minor injuries unit in New AddingtonThe Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 3,500 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.Our Vision:"Excellent integrated care for you and your family, when and where you need it"Our 5 key 'Here for you' promises to the people of Croydon are:o You feel cared for by helpful and welcoming staffo You feel in safe hands with highly professional staffo You feel confident in your treatment from skilled teams of compassionate clinicianso You feel we value your time with convenient appointments, minimal waiting and care closer to homeo You feel it's getting better all the time as we continue to improve our services
We are one of 17 Trusts in the country who have been accepted as national pioneers on staff engagement and empowerment, through the adoption of "Listening into Action" as a new way of working. The approach we are taking to "Listening into Action" is new and different.
Job description
Job responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical
- Assessment and treatment of patients, identifying specialist therapy need and developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care.
- Responsible for facilitating early hospital discharge and will be able to conduct a thorough holistic assessment of clients, obtaining consent in accordance with professional guidelines and local team procedures.
- Recommend appropriate interventions to promote independence and safety, utilising effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice.
- Determine the medical stability of patients referred and those currently on the caseload and promote the mental, physical and emotional health of a given population.
- Maintain effective multidisciplinary communication with other members of the team and the wider clinical network to ensure that clients needs are met.
- Provide specialist Physiotherapy advice and support to client, carers and relatives based on clinical evidence and reasoning.
- Ensure safe, appropriate and effective provision, installation and demonstration of equipment.
- Participate in MDT meetings and complex family conferences.
- Ensure management of clinical risk with complex patients.
- Ability to identify when and how to terminate involvement or refer onwards to appropriate teams/services and complete input in a timely, seamless manner.
- Offer support, advice, guidance and training to patients, families and carers and be aware of and utilise appropriate resources and agencies.
- Co-ordinate services by liaising and collaborating with nurses, social care, voluntary agencies, statutory agencies, primary and secondary care.
- Make independent evidence based clinical decisions to influence practice.
- Manage and supervise the work of the generic support worker team within an effective environment, including performance management.
- Knowledge and awareness of HR policies and ability to manage staff by utilising these policies
- Ensure the safe use of prescribed equipment for manual handling.
- Take an innovative approach to service delivery to enable new initiatives to be introduced.
- Support safeguarding compliance.
- Complete individual plans of care for clients who require input from integrated community services, bed-based or home-based rehabilitation input.
- Be part of the weekend therapy cover for the rapid response team on a rota basis.
Care Co-ordination and Leadership
- To be responsible and accountable for the patients on the LIFE therapy team caseload. To coordinate and prioritise the management of care for the individuals on the caseload.
- To support integrated care for patients requiring case management, providing and initiating the collection baseline data to positively change patient outcomes.
- Able to carry out concise comprehensive patient assessments; to plan, delegate to junior colleagues, deliver and evaluate care for patients with long term conditions.
- To be highly visible and accessible to patients, families and carers and seen as being in charge of their care.
- To identify participate and initiate areas of change; participate in audit and service evaluation.
- To influence colleagues to effect changes in service delivery to improve patient care within constraints of job role.
- To develop and mentor students and colleagues.
- To refer directly on to other services or professionals as appropriate for example district nursing, palliative care and consultants in acute services.
Education, Training and Development
- To ensure own professional development and clinical skills through attending courses, conferences, workshops and being aware of national and local policies, to develop an extensive knowledge of chronic disease processes and management.
- To share the knowledge and skills of case management and new ways of working with long term conditions with, patients, carers, colleagues and other professionals.
- To actively participate in changes to service delivery
- To utilise knowledge of clinical governance and risk management to provide safe and effective services to patients.
- To reflect on ones own practice by participating in reflective practice and learning sets to support the wider development of case management and best practice.
Communication
- To listen and empathise with the needs and wishes of patient and their carers, to support individual rights and choice.
- To ensure that the needs of patients and carers are addressed by utilising statutory and voluntary services.
- To address issues or blocks in communication that affect service delivery / patient care and work with colleagues and patients to overcome these.
- To case manage and co-ordinate care to proactively prevent hospital admission and facilitate hospital discharge.
- To keep accurate contemporaneous written and / or electronic documentation care plans and reports.
GENERAL
- To work in accordance with the Trusts Here for You standards to consistently demonstrate the behaviours required to fulfil the promises we have made to the people of Croydon. These promises, developed with our patients, carers and staff help us deliver the pledges in the NHS Constitution and our own corporate objectives.
- To ensure that Croydon Healthcare Services Trusts policies and procedures are adhered to.
- To have responsibility for the Health, Safety and Welfare of self and others and to comply at all times with the requirements of the Health and Safety Regulations and the Trusts Health and Safety policies and procedures.
- To ensure confidentiality at all times, only releasing confidential information obtained during the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act and its amendments.
- To work in accordance with the Trusts policies to eliminate unlawful discrimination and promote equality and diversity in the workplace. To positively promote at all times equality of opportunity in service delivery and employment in accordance with Trust policies, regardless of age, disability, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, religion, belief, sexual orientation or domestic circumstances.
- To adhere to the Trust Infection Control Policy, procedures and guidelines, and in particular practice strict hand hygiene at all times while carrying out clinical duties, in line with the responsibilities placed on employees by the Health Act 2006: Code of Practice for the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections (HCAIs). The prevention and control of HCAIs must be embedded into everyday clinical practice and applied consistently.
- All clinical staff holds responsibility for ensuring they have sound knowledge of standard infection control precautions and that no omission on their part or within the sphere of their responsibility is detrimental to the interests or safety of their patients, visitors and colleagues. Clinical staff must keep their infection control knowledge and skills up to date by attending the Trusts mandatory infection control training, a record of which will be kept and information provided to line managers as required.
- To comply with the Trusts Safe Guarding Children and Vulnerable Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
- Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
- Ensure you are familiar and comply with the Croydon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
- Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
- Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
- Participate in required training and supervision.
- Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Job description
Job responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical
- Assessment and treatment of patients, identifying specialist therapy need and developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care.
- Responsible for facilitating early hospital discharge and will be able to conduct a thorough holistic assessment of clients, obtaining consent in accordance with professional guidelines and local team procedures.
- Recommend appropriate interventions to promote independence and safety, utilising effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice.
- Determine the medical stability of patients referred and those currently on the caseload and promote the mental, physical and emotional health of a given population.
- Maintain effective multidisciplinary communication with other members of the team and the wider clinical network to ensure that clients needs are met.
- Provide specialist Physiotherapy advice and support to client, carers and relatives based on clinical evidence and reasoning.
- Ensure safe, appropriate and effective provision, installation and demonstration of equipment.
- Participate in MDT meetings and complex family conferences.
- Ensure management of clinical risk with complex patients.
- Ability to identify when and how to terminate involvement or refer onwards to appropriate teams/services and complete input in a timely, seamless manner.
- Offer support, advice, guidance and training to patients, families and carers and be aware of and utilise appropriate resources and agencies.
- Co-ordinate services by liaising and collaborating with nurses, social care, voluntary agencies, statutory agencies, primary and secondary care.
- Make independent evidence based clinical decisions to influence practice.
- Manage and supervise the work of the generic support worker team within an effective environment, including performance management.
- Knowledge and awareness of HR policies and ability to manage staff by utilising these policies
- Ensure the safe use of prescribed equipment for manual handling.
- Take an innovative approach to service delivery to enable new initiatives to be introduced.
- Support safeguarding compliance.
- Complete individual plans of care for clients who require input from integrated community services, bed-based or home-based rehabilitation input.
- Be part of the weekend therapy cover for the rapid response team on a rota basis.
Care Co-ordination and Leadership
- To be responsible and accountable for the patients on the LIFE therapy team caseload. To coordinate and prioritise the management of care for the individuals on the caseload.
- To support integrated care for patients requiring case management, providing and initiating the collection baseline data to positively change patient outcomes.
- Able to carry out concise comprehensive patient assessments; to plan, delegate to junior colleagues, deliver and evaluate care for patients with long term conditions.
- To be highly visible and accessible to patients, families and carers and seen as being in charge of their care.
- To identify participate and initiate areas of change; participate in audit and service evaluation.
- To influence colleagues to effect changes in service delivery to improve patient care within constraints of job role.
- To develop and mentor students and colleagues.
- To refer directly on to other services or professionals as appropriate for example district nursing, palliative care and consultants in acute services.
Education, Training and Development
- To ensure own professional development and clinical skills through attending courses, conferences, workshops and being aware of national and local policies, to develop an extensive knowledge of chronic disease processes and management.
- To share the knowledge and skills of case management and new ways of working with long term conditions with, patients, carers, colleagues and other professionals.
- To actively participate in changes to service delivery
- To utilise knowledge of clinical governance and risk management to provide safe and effective services to patients.
- To reflect on ones own practice by participating in reflective practice and learning sets to support the wider development of case management and best practice.
Communication
- To listen and empathise with the needs and wishes of patient and their carers, to support individual rights and choice.
- To ensure that the needs of patients and carers are addressed by utilising statutory and voluntary services.
- To address issues or blocks in communication that affect service delivery / patient care and work with colleagues and patients to overcome these.
- To case manage and co-ordinate care to proactively prevent hospital admission and facilitate hospital discharge.
- To keep accurate contemporaneous written and / or electronic documentation care plans and reports.
GENERAL
- To work in accordance with the Trusts Here for You standards to consistently demonstrate the behaviours required to fulfil the promises we have made to the people of Croydon. These promises, developed with our patients, carers and staff help us deliver the pledges in the NHS Constitution and our own corporate objectives.
- To ensure that Croydon Healthcare Services Trusts policies and procedures are adhered to.
- To have responsibility for the Health, Safety and Welfare of self and others and to comply at all times with the requirements of the Health and Safety Regulations and the Trusts Health and Safety policies and procedures.
- To ensure confidentiality at all times, only releasing confidential information obtained during the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act and its amendments.
- To work in accordance with the Trusts policies to eliminate unlawful discrimination and promote equality and diversity in the workplace. To positively promote at all times equality of opportunity in service delivery and employment in accordance with Trust policies, regardless of age, disability, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, religion, belief, sexual orientation or domestic circumstances.
- To adhere to the Trust Infection Control Policy, procedures and guidelines, and in particular practice strict hand hygiene at all times while carrying out clinical duties, in line with the responsibilities placed on employees by the Health Act 2006: Code of Practice for the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections (HCAIs). The prevention and control of HCAIs must be embedded into everyday clinical practice and applied consistently.
- All clinical staff holds responsibility for ensuring they have sound knowledge of standard infection control precautions and that no omission on their part or within the sphere of their responsibility is detrimental to the interests or safety of their patients, visitors and colleagues. Clinical staff must keep their infection control knowledge and skills up to date by attending the Trusts mandatory infection control training, a record of which will be kept and information provided to line managers as required.
- To comply with the Trusts Safe Guarding Children and Vulnerable Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
- Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
- Ensure you are familiar and comply with the Croydon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
- Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
- Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
- Participate in required training and supervision.
- Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS EDUCATION / TRAINING
Essential
- BSc or Diploma in Physiotherapy Therapy.
- HCPC Registered.
- Evidence of CPD including relevant clinical training and courses.
Desirable
- Relevant postgraduate training e.g. Elderly care/Falls/Dementia training
RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE / AWARENESS
Essential
- Knowledge of a range of PT assessment, treatment and rehabilitation techniques and to have kept up to date with trends and developments in physiotherapy and Community Services.
- Awareness of the concept and application of re-ablement
- Uses clinical reasoning and reflective practice to improve service delivery.
- Awareness of Clinical Governance issues.
- Knowledge & awareness of risk assessment.
- Ability to pass on skill / knowledge in informal and formal environments.
- Awareness of other community and social services.
- Knowledge of relevant NICE guidelines and clinical standards
Desirable
- Knowledge of outcome measures/ audit.
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Minimum 2 years postgraduate, incorporating experience in a variety of relevant core specialities
- Experience of working with unqualified assistant therapy staff.
Desirable
- Previous Band 6 experience.
- Previous community experience.
SKILLS / ABILITIES / APTITUDES
Essential
- Self-management skills e.g. time management and organisational skills.
- Ability to work independently & within a team
- Ability to problem-solve & respond to change.
- Basic computer skills including data entry, use of word processing and e-mail.
- Good interpersonal & communication skills.
Desirable
- Commitment to staff development and training.
Other factors / Special circumstances
Essential
- Access to a vehicle for work purposes and a clean UK driving licence
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS EDUCATION / TRAINING
Essential
- BSc or Diploma in Physiotherapy Therapy.
- HCPC Registered.
- Evidence of CPD including relevant clinical training and courses.
Desirable
- Relevant postgraduate training e.g. Elderly care/Falls/Dementia training
RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE / AWARENESS
Essential
- Knowledge of a range of PT assessment, treatment and rehabilitation techniques and to have kept up to date with trends and developments in physiotherapy and Community Services.
- Awareness of the concept and application of re-ablement
- Uses clinical reasoning and reflective practice to improve service delivery.
- Awareness of Clinical Governance issues.
- Knowledge & awareness of risk assessment.
- Ability to pass on skill / knowledge in informal and formal environments.
- Awareness of other community and social services.
- Knowledge of relevant NICE guidelines and clinical standards
Desirable
- Knowledge of outcome measures/ audit.
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Minimum 2 years postgraduate, incorporating experience in a variety of relevant core specialities
- Experience of working with unqualified assistant therapy staff.
Desirable
- Previous Band 6 experience.
- Previous community experience.
SKILLS / ABILITIES / APTITUDES
Essential
- Self-management skills e.g. time management and organisational skills.
- Ability to work independently & within a team
- Ability to problem-solve & respond to change.
- Basic computer skills including data entry, use of word processing and e-mail.
- Good interpersonal & communication skills.
Desirable
- Commitment to staff development and training.
Other factors / Special circumstances
Essential
- Access to a vehicle for work purposes and a clean UK driving licence
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).
