Team Lead Physiotherapist -Neuro Outpatients

Job description

Job responsibilities

This role is eligible for visa sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. Sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements set by UKVI, including the relevant skill and salary thresholds, and any role-specific criteria. For example, applicants for the Senior HCA role must be able to evidence a minimum of 2 years experience in the same role to qualify for sponsorship.

If you are applying using a Graduate visa as your right to work, you must have a minimum of 18 months remaining on your visa at time of application.

Communication

To adapt communication skills with patients who have communication and understanding difficulties, e.g. dementia, learning difficulties, visual and hearing impairments, non-English speaking patients, and dysphasia. Advise other members of staff on appropriate basic communication strategies where necessary.

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 have a neurological injury or illness resulting in impaired memory or cognition.

• To persuade, motivate, empathise, reassure, 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.

  To demonstrate expert ability to clearly communicate complex and sensitive information to staff, patients and carers. This may include explaining diagnoses or prognoses about long-term / permanent disabilities or chronic pain, where an educational and counselling role is required to be highly developed.

  To demonstrate expert ability to clearly communicate prognosis and ensure the patients and carers have realistic expectations of the rehabilitation process and outcome.

  To be able to diffuse potentially hostile and antagonistic situations with staff, patients, and relatives using highly developed negotiation and interpersonal skills.

  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.

  To maintain close links and work collaboratively with all staff and people involved in patient care, student education, research or policy development and promote good working relationships at all times

  To represent the physiotherapy department on speciality issues within the trust and external agencies, e.g. GPs, steering groups, working parties.

  Ensure timely and effective communication with all physiotherapy staff on professional matters.

  To resolve verbal complaints and report all formal complaints, incidents and accidents to physiotherapy management as soon as possible, document according to trust policy and carry out preliminary investigation.

Service delivery and improvement

To be responsible, in conjunction with the Physiotherapy leadership team for policy implementation for the designated area.

To be responsible for identifying and implementing service development within the designated area and to ensure effectiveness of patient care is continually monitored and improved.

To ensure as a team leader that designated staff implement policy and service developmental changes.

To ensure that the service within the designated area responds to national initiatives and policy within the framework of clinical governance including clinical effectiveness, evidence-based health care, managing clinical risk, and research and development.

People management and development

Responsible for carrying out duties in line with the Trusts e-rostering processes, including managing rosters, supporting staff allocation, and contributing to effective budget reconciliation and workforce planning

• As a team leader and clinical lead be responsible for the day-to- day management, supervision and co-ordination of the Neurological Outpatients Team including allocation of work, staff appraisal and performance management.
• To support the physiotherapy management in matters of grievance and disciplinary action if and when necessary.

To assist where necessary in the interviewing and appointment of new Trust Physiotherapy staff.

Patient care delivery

To have shared responsibility and accountability for the delivery of patient care in the designated area and to influence physiotherapy practice trust-wide e.g. management of neurological acute and longer-term conditions.

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.

To ensure high standards of clinical care within the designated area and be responsible for ensuring all staff within the team adhere to Trust, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and Departmental standards of care.

To be highly competent in the comprehensive assessment of a wide range of Neurological out and inpatients, including those with a highly complex presentation, using advanced theoretical knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology, often in situations where conflicting evidence is present.

To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts, which may be conflicting, using underpinning theoretical knowledge and experience to suggest diagnoses, identify main problems and form prognoses in a wide range of highly complex neurological conditions.

To formulate individual patient management, treatment and discharge plans, using clinical reasoning, current evidence and a wide range of treatment skills.

To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory skills for the assessment and manual treatment of patients e.g. specific soft tissue massage, facilitation of sequences of normal movement, mobilisation, therapeutic handling to alter neurological tone.

To continually re-assess patients in order to progress treatments effectively and advise patients, employers and occupational health departments on the appropriate time to return to work, sports and other activities.

To co-ordinate interventions which may include other disciplines through multidisciplinary working/meetings (face to face, written communication, or via telephone) e.g. OTs, Specialist Nurses, Orthotists, Speech and Language Therapists, Consultants, GPs, Continence Nurses, District Nurses.

To maintain patient confidentiality and dignity at all times and support peoples equality, diversity and rights

To use advanced theoretical and practical knowledge to refer to other health disciplines as appropriate, in particular for further treatment or specialist consultant opinions and to ensure appropriate referral systems are used by departmental staff.

To be an active member of the evening and weekend on-call service and / or orthopaedic service.

• To maintain professionalism in public, ward and rehabilitation areas

Person Specification

Professional Registration

Essential

• Diploma in Physiotherapy or BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy or overseas equivalent

Desirable

• Evidence of postgraduate management courses or training

Experience/Qualifications

Essential

• Experience of supervising less experienced staff and students

Skills Clinical

Essential

• Relevant experience, including work at Band 6 level within the specialty
• High level of clinical skill in specialty area and ability to teach those skills (to own and other professions)

Desirable

• Clinical specialist/team leader level within the speciality

Freedom to Act

Essential

• Ability to work autonomously, liaise and coordinate with the Management Team on a day-to-day basis and to take appropriate action as necessary

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Essential

• Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role)
• Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues

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

Eastern Road

Brighton

BN2 5BE

Employer's website

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