Job summary
To provide high quality evidence based physiotherapy assessment and interventions across a wide range of clinical specialities including admission avoidance in ED, senior health and frailty unit, oncology, falls and bone health and older persons rehabilitation
Main duties of the job
To supervise band 5 physiotherapists, technical instructors.
To support physiotherapy students on clinical placements.
To participate in the 7 day service supporting the emergency respiratory physiotherapy service and/or the acute rehabilitation service across medicine and senior health wards
To participate in the night time on-call emergency respiratory rota
About us
With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
Job description
Job responsibilities
**Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification**
Job description
Job responsibilities
**Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification**
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Graduate Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Evidence of CPD, in the form of a detailed personal development portfolio, including attendance at recent post graduate courses relevant to the clinical field
Desirable
- Post graduate education completed or in progress
- Special interest group membership
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 1 year's NHS experience (can include undergraduate experience).
- Minimum 2 years post registration experience
- Broad range of experience at band 5 level including a minimum of 4 months experience in each of: ICU, medical, surgery, neurology, outpatients and older people's rehabilitation
- Participation in night time on-call rota
- Participate in weekend working within the rehabilitation setting you are based in.
- Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy team and multidisciplinary team, including setting team goals
- Ability to form a sound prognosis and advise other members of the MDT
Desirable
- Previous experience at Band 6 level
- Student supervision / clinical education
- Experience of the research process
- Teaching experience in in-service programmes
- Committee membership, e.g. health and safety
- Experience of clinical education of undergraduate students
Skills
Essential
- Fluent in written and oral English, and able to present complex information in a clear and logical manner
- Good assessment skills based on a sound clinical reasoning approach including the assessment of symptom behaviour, history taking and gathering of physical/objective testing and hypothesis formation
- Ability to work with multi/interdisciplinary team and set team goals
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
- To actively participate in staff training
- Ability to keep legible and accurate notes in English in the POMR system
- Computer literacy
- Presentation skills
- Able to carry out moderate to intense physical effort throughout the working day and carry out concurrent activities
- Ability to cope with working in a stressful environment
- Able to motivate self and others
- Ability to work autonomously
Desirable
- Supervision of other staff, e.g. physiotherapy assistant / Technical Instructor
- Ability to run courses - internal / external
Knowledge
Essential
- Remains updated with professional practice and new research
- Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession
- Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for physiotherapy services including experience of quality issues and audit
- Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust's policies of data protection, equal opportunities and health and safety to meet the differing needs of the patients
Desirable
- Evidence of participation in research / audit
Other
Essential
- Physically fit and able to comply with the Trust's Manual Handling Guidelines
- Able to perform on call and weekend duties
- Professional attitude/behaviour
- Compliance with the Trust's No Smoking Policy and Dress Code (uniform) Policy
- Able to alter their working patterns to include working extended hours, unsociable hours and weekend working.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Graduate Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Evidence of CPD, in the form of a detailed personal development portfolio, including attendance at recent post graduate courses relevant to the clinical field
Desirable
- Post graduate education completed or in progress
- Special interest group membership
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 1 year's NHS experience (can include undergraduate experience).
- Minimum 2 years post registration experience
- Broad range of experience at band 5 level including a minimum of 4 months experience in each of: ICU, medical, surgery, neurology, outpatients and older people's rehabilitation
- Participation in night time on-call rota
- Participate in weekend working within the rehabilitation setting you are based in.
- Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy team and multidisciplinary team, including setting team goals
- Ability to form a sound prognosis and advise other members of the MDT
Desirable
- Previous experience at Band 6 level
- Student supervision / clinical education
- Experience of the research process
- Teaching experience in in-service programmes
- Committee membership, e.g. health and safety
- Experience of clinical education of undergraduate students
Skills
Essential
- Fluent in written and oral English, and able to present complex information in a clear and logical manner
- Good assessment skills based on a sound clinical reasoning approach including the assessment of symptom behaviour, history taking and gathering of physical/objective testing and hypothesis formation
- Ability to work with multi/interdisciplinary team and set team goals
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
- To actively participate in staff training
- Ability to keep legible and accurate notes in English in the POMR system
- Computer literacy
- Presentation skills
- Able to carry out moderate to intense physical effort throughout the working day and carry out concurrent activities
- Ability to cope with working in a stressful environment
- Able to motivate self and others
- Ability to work autonomously
Desirable
- Supervision of other staff, e.g. physiotherapy assistant / Technical Instructor
- Ability to run courses - internal / external
Knowledge
Essential
- Remains updated with professional practice and new research
- Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession
- Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for physiotherapy services including experience of quality issues and audit
- Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust's policies of data protection, equal opportunities and health and safety to meet the differing needs of the patients
Desirable
- Evidence of participation in research / audit
Other
Essential
- Physically fit and able to comply with the Trust's Manual Handling Guidelines
- Able to perform on call and weekend duties
- Professional attitude/behaviour
- Compliance with the Trust's No Smoking Policy and Dress Code (uniform) Policy
- Able to alter their working patterns to include working extended hours, unsociable hours and weekend working.
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.
