Senior Neuro Rotational Physiotherapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Communication

1. To adapt communication skills to encourage patients to undertake their treatment programme, including patients with communication difficulties e.g. aphasia, Dementia, learning difficulties, visual and hearing impairments and non-English speaking patients.
2. To assess capacity to give consent, gain informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment such as patients who have dementia, learning difficulties or who are acutely confused or who are sedated and ventilated.
3. To persuade, motivate, reassure, empathise, explain and encourage patients in undertaking their treatment programme, ensure understanding of their condition and communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential.
4. To clearly communicate sensitive information to staff, patients and carers. This may include explaining prognoses about long-term disabilities, where an educational and counselling role is required.

1. To be able to diffuse potentially hostile and antagonistic situations with staff, patients, and relatives using negotiation and interpersonal skills.
2. To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date documentation, in line with legal and departmental requirements, and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports and letters.
3. To communicate effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing and therapy colleagues to ensure delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service. This may include attending case conferences, ward rounds and discharge planning meetings.
4. Ensure timely communication with the team leader on all professional matters.

Management and Development

1. Physical Resources
2. To be responsible for the equipment used in carrying out Physiotherapy duties, and to adhere to departmental equipment policy and Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards. To ensure the safe use of equipment and reporting of faults by self and others including patients, carers and other health professionals

1. To comply with and ensure implementation of all trust policies and procedures and the Health and Safety at Work Act, including adherence to Universal Precautions and Infection Control measures.

1. Information Resources

1. To be responsible for maintenance of an accurate and evaluative record keeping system using POMR (Problem Orientated Medical Records) format to demonstrate evaluation, analysis and clinical reasoning in the provision of patient care.
2. To maintain the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and departments standards for documentation.
3. To record statistical information related to own activity and highlight variances in consultation with senior staff.
4. Use computer databases to provide accurate reports containing statistics and clinical information as requested by Band 7 and team leads.

1. Planning and Organisation

1. To flexibly plan and prioritise own time to ensure that patient care, training, supervision, and meetings are undertaken with occasional guidance from Band 7 and team leads.
2. To use good prioritising and time management skills to meet the unpredictable and conflicting needs of the service.
3. To participate in departmental meetings including staff, team and grade meetings as required.
4. To report all complaints, incidents and accidents to the immediate senior member of staff as soon as possible and document according to trust policy.
5. To be responsible for the operational management of the clinical team in the absence of the team leader.

Service Delivery and Improvement

1. To assist Band 7 and team leads in the proposal and implementation of Trust Policy and Service Developments within the Neurological Physiotherapy team.

Leadership

1. To assist the team leader in the day-to-day supervision and coordination of the Band 5 and Support Worker staff.
2. To supervise less experienced staff and formulate Individual Development Plans and undertake regular appraisals with Band 5 and Support Workers using the Knowledge skills framework.
3. To supervise undergraduate physiotherapy students on clinical placements within the

Patient Care Delivery

1. To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable, as an autonomous practitioner, for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care.
2. To ensure high standards of clinical care within the designated area, and adhere to Trust, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and Departmental standards of care.
3. To be competent in the comprehensive assessment of a wide range of neurological patients, including those with a complex presentation, using advanced theoretical knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology, often in situations where conflicting evidence is present.
4. To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts, which may be conflicting, using underpinning theoretical knowledge and experience to suggest a diagnoses, identify main problems and form prognoses in a wide range of complex and complicated conditions.
5. To formulate and develop individual patient management, treatment and discharge plans, using clinical reasoning, current evidence and a wide range of treatment skills.
6. To seek Senior and team lead guidance with highly complex or challenging patient cases.
7. To demonstrate well developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory skills for the assessment and treatment of patients.
8. To continually re-assess patients in order to progress treatments effectively and advise patients and carers on the appropriate time to return to work, sports and other activities.
9. To demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and ensure its effective application to the work situation, guided by the team leads and Physiotherapy Management as needed.
10. Maintain patient confidentiality and dignity at all times and support peoples equality, diversity and rights.
11. To use theoretical and practical knowledge to refer to other health disciplines as appropriate, e.g. for assessment or further treatment or specialist consultant opinions.
12. To participate in weekend working.
13. To support neurological patients with respiratory problems (if has relevant competence/experience)
14. To maintain professionalism in public, ward and rehabilitation areas.
15. To advise the team leader of any problems within the service to ensure quality and effectiveness of care for their patients.
16. To undertake any other duties as may be deemed necessary by physiotherapy managers in the provision of the physiotherapy service.

Research and Development

1. To plan and undertake the measurement and evaluation of practice and performance through clinical audit and studies with guidance from the Team Leader.
2. To support more Band 5 staff within the department to undertake clinical audit.
3. To demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and apply to work situation.

Education and Experience

1. To maintain own professional development by keeping abreast of any developments and attending relevant post-graduate clinical and non-clinical training, and incorporate into practice.
2. To attend mandatory and statutory training according to Trust policies.
3. To be an active member of the departmental professional development programmes by attending in-service training sessions, delivering training sessions and by attending external courses and undertaking reflective practice.
4. To participate in the staff appraisal scheme and Individual Development Plan (IDP), as both an appraise and appraiser.

Training

1. To provide specialist advice to physiotherapy colleagues working within other clinical areas.
2. To provide specialist advice, teaching and training to patients, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team regarding the physiotherapy management of patients.
3. To provide training to junior staff, weekend staff, assistants and undergraduate students.

Learning and Development

1. Attend mandatory training updates as required.
2. Undertake training as necessary in line with the development of the post and as agreed with the line manager as part of the personal development process.
3. Achieve and demonstrate agreed standards of personal and professional development within agreed timescales.
4. Identify own learning needs and jointly plan training requirements with your line manager
5. Participate in the Trusts appraisal process to discuss how your role will help deliver the best possible care to our patients and help to deliver any changes in service.

Person Specification

Shortlisting

Essential

• HCPC registered
• Physiotherapy degree or equivalent
• Experience training staff
• Band 6/senior experience or equivalent in Neurology
• Senior Band 5 or equivalent experience in Neurology
• Able to comprehensively assess and treat neuro patients with complex presentations
• Able to plan and prioritise own clinical and non clinical workload
• Experience appraising less experienced staff and/or support workers

Desirable

• Evidence of attendance at validated courses (MSc modules/movement science/normal movement)
• Member of the CSP and/or ACPIN or equivalent
• Experience conducting critical appraisal and/or publishing research
• Experience working in neurology in the community
• Respiratory on call competent
• Experience as a student clinical educator
• Able to plan the team workload and delegate effectively

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)

Address

Royal Sussex County Hospital

Brighton

BN2 5BE

Employer's website

https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)