Job summary
To provide a high standard of specialist physiotherapy service to a widerange of Physiotherapy in-patients. This post consists of 9 monthlyrotations in the following clinical areas:? Health Services for Elderly People. (HSEP)? Rapid Response ( A+E and acute medicine )? Oncology? Respiratory? General surgery and Liver Transplantation? Renal? Vascular Surgery and Amputees
Main duties of the job
? To assess and treat own caseload of patients as an autonomous andindependent practitioner for patients who may have acute, chroniccomplex presentation, and maintain appropriate treatment plans, and/or records and statistics.? To participate in the weekend and on call rota? Supervise and teach junior therapists, students and assistants? To be involved in the teaching of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), staffand patient education groups.? Undertake and present evidence-based projects and research includingdepartmental audit and suggesting practice changes, under thesupervision of line supervisor.
About us
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the topFor more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for more information about this role and working at royal free London NHS foundation Trust
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for more information about this role and working at royal free London NHS foundation Trust
Person Specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential
- oDemonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential
- oDegree/ graduate diploma or equivalent in Physiotherapy
- oHealth Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration as a physiotherapist
- oCertificated graduate courses or equivalent in-house training in clinical specialty areas
Desirable
- oMember of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)
- oMembership of special interest group
Experience
Essential
- oActive participation in an audit or project work
- oGood understanding of relevant clinical guidelines
- oBroad range of clinical experience at a Band 5 level or above
- oExperience of working in an acute, hospital-based setting, including working within an MDT
- oPresentations to a range of groups
- oTeaching/training of staff or students
- oSupervision of more junior staff, assistants and/students
- oComputer literate, to include working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- oEvidence of CPD
- oExperience of weekend working and emergency on-call working
Desirable
- oMotivational Interviewing/ Behaviour Change training (CBT or facilitation skills)
Skills and aptitudes
Essential
- oEvidence of specialist clinical skills and core Physiotherapy skills
- oAbility to work effectively within different teams both multi and uni-disciplinary
- oAbility to communicate with community partners and external agencies especially to facilitate safe and timel hospital discharge
- oAbility to be proactive in service development
- oAbility to critically evaluate current research & apply to own practice
- oAbility to recognise unacceptable behaviour and act on this appropriately
Person Specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential
- oDemonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential
- oDegree/ graduate diploma or equivalent in Physiotherapy
- oHealth Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration as a physiotherapist
- oCertificated graduate courses or equivalent in-house training in clinical specialty areas
Desirable
- oMember of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)
- oMembership of special interest group
Experience
Essential
- oActive participation in an audit or project work
- oGood understanding of relevant clinical guidelines
- oBroad range of clinical experience at a Band 5 level or above
- oExperience of working in an acute, hospital-based setting, including working within an MDT
- oPresentations to a range of groups
- oTeaching/training of staff or students
- oSupervision of more junior staff, assistants and/students
- oComputer literate, to include working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- oEvidence of CPD
- oExperience of weekend working and emergency on-call working
Desirable
- oMotivational Interviewing/ Behaviour Change training (CBT or facilitation skills)
Skills and aptitudes
Essential
- oEvidence of specialist clinical skills and core Physiotherapy skills
- oAbility to work effectively within different teams both multi and uni-disciplinary
- oAbility to communicate with community partners and external agencies especially to facilitate safe and timel hospital discharge
- oAbility to be proactive in service development
- oAbility to critically evaluate current research & apply to own practice
- oAbility to recognise unacceptable behaviour and act on this appropriately
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.
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).
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.
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).
