Job summary
This is a part time post for 22.5 hours per week.
The post holder will be a Band 6 Physiotherapist specialising in respiratory care within paediatrics and participating as a member of the Gloucestershire Children's Physiotherapy team managing a specialised clinical caseload. This involves assessment, advising, planning, delivering, and evaluating treatment for a complex caseload of children and their families.
This role is a post within a well-established community team. It is an exciting and evolving role with the opportunity to impact and support patients and their families in their home environments. The wider team is supportive and dynamic, with a wealth of expertise to draw on. Clinical and operational supervision, as well as support to attend wider networks are encouraged and provided
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a Band 6 Physiotherapist specialising in respiratory care within paediatrics and participating as a member of the Gloucestershire Children's Physiotherapy team independently managing a specialised respiratory clinical caseload. This involves assessment, advising, planning, delivering and evaluating treatment for a complex caseload of children and their families.
This role will include ongoing maintenance physiotherapy programmes, manual techniques, suction and other airway clearance techniques. The post holder will have the opportunity to work closely with the paediatric respiratory physiotherapists in the hospital setting, as well as working with neuromuscular physiotherapists and the wider respiratory multidisciplinary team. The post holder will assist band 7 physiotherapist to develop the service and provide a source of expertise locally, providing education and support for parents/carers and community staff caring for these children.
This post is community based and the post holder will carry their own caseload and at times will be expected to work independently in locations away from base.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner
- To plan and organise own routine workload.
- To be professionally and legally accountable for a designated patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands
- To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload
- 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
- To undertake the comprehensive and accurate respiratory assessment of children, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative, analytical and clinical reasoning skills.
- To formulate individualised respiratory management programmes, utilising a wide range of respiratory treatment skills and options to plan a specialised respiratory airway clearance plan.
- To undertake evaluation of patient progress, reassess and alter physiotherapy management programmes as required
- To provide spontaneous and planned advice, problem solving expertise, teaching and instruction to families, carers, other disciplines and agencies to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and to ensure continuation of the respiratory management programme across all areas of the childs daily environment
- To participate in and where appropriate 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 participate in the collection of data for audit purposes
- To produce comprehensive patient related reports for other disciplines or agencies relating to assessment findings and/or treatment/management outcomes
- To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own work through audit, outcome measurement, the application of evidence-based practice and research as appropriate
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner
- To plan and organise own routine workload.
- To be professionally and legally accountable for a designated patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands
- To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload
- 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
- To undertake the comprehensive and accurate respiratory assessment of children, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative, analytical and clinical reasoning skills.
- To formulate individualised respiratory management programmes, utilising a wide range of respiratory treatment skills and options to plan a specialised respiratory airway clearance plan.
- To undertake evaluation of patient progress, reassess and alter physiotherapy management programmes as required
- To provide spontaneous and planned advice, problem solving expertise, teaching and instruction to families, carers, other disciplines and agencies to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and to ensure continuation of the respiratory management programme across all areas of the childs daily environment
- To participate in and where appropriate 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 participate in the collection of data for audit purposes
- To produce comprehensive patient related reports for other disciplines or agencies relating to assessment findings and/or treatment/management outcomes
- To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own work through audit, outcome measurement, the application of evidence-based practice and research as appropriate
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy
- Completion of Clinical Educators Course or equivalent
- State Registered Physiotherapist (HCPC)
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Postgraduate experience as a qualified physiotherapist in a range of relevant settings
- Broad range of clinical experience through a comprehensive band 5 rotation
- Experience of working closely with medical practitioners and working across professional boundaries.
Experience
Desirable
- Commitment to teaching at an undergraduate and postgraduate level
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy
- Completion of Clinical Educators Course or equivalent
- State Registered Physiotherapist (HCPC)
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Postgraduate experience as a qualified physiotherapist in a range of relevant settings
- Broad range of clinical experience through a comprehensive band 5 rotation
- Experience of working closely with medical practitioners and working across professional boundaries.
Experience
Desirable
- Commitment to teaching at an undergraduate and postgraduate level
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).
