Specialist Physiotherapist - Rotational

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Profile Summary:

As an autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary team, the Specialist Inpatient Physiotherapist will assess, treat and manage their own caseload developing specialist physiotherapy skills in Intensive Care surgery including cardiothoracic, neurorehabilitation and orthopaedics.

The role will be part of the eight-month rotation scheme across Cleveland Clinic London and will report directly to the highly specialised physiotherapist within the specialty.

The role will form the highly effective, innovative and evidenced based therapy provision across all inpatient rehabilitation services, working with the leads in the specialist areas.

The role will have opportunities to develop clinical and non-clinical specialist skills as well as experience within research, service development and progression into future leadership. There is an expectation this role will complete on-call and weekend service provision, developing specialist skills along the way.

The role will involve supported supervision of therapy assistants and have supportive individualised supervision and performance development with senior physiotherapists. There will be opportunities to work within our team of teams model of care alongside specialists within their areas.

Job Responsibilities:

• Be legally and professionally responsible for all aspects of your work including safe and effective management of you clinical and non-clinical caseloads.
• Effectively apply clinical reasoning to assess, progress, adapt and treat patients seeking guidance at appropriate times to ensure safe and effective care.
• Be able to identify risk within clinical setting including deteriorating patients and potential safety issues around care and discharge and communicate this effectively with support as appropriate.
• Educate and train physiotherapists and other MDT members with innovation and passion around the role of physiotherapy and rehabilitation.
• Take a proactive lead in using routine outcome measures to improve patient care.
• Provide highly supportive supervision and coaching to physiotherapists and students.
• Keep informed of evidence, changes to practice, relevant research and guidance to discuss at regular opportunities to progress and develop own MDT practice.
• Identify areas of research and quality improvement priorities to add to wider physiotherapy development strategy.
• Be actively involved in appropriate and discussed audit and research activities within the department, supporting the therapy leadership team with departmental strategies and priorities.

Safeguarding:

All caregivers have a personal and a professional responsibility to identify and report abuse. A patient or fellow caregiver may disclose information of being abused or suspected abuse. A caregiver may also witness abuse or simply have concerns of abuse taking place.

Should any caregiver suspect abuse then it is vital that the CCL safeguarding policy and procedure is immediately implemented.

It is the caregivers responsibility to ensure they are fully compliant with CCLs safeguarding.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Work Experience:
• Experience as a registered physiotherapist in an acute hospital setting - Required
• Evidence of a broad based of registered physiotherapy experience across inpatients including ICU, neurological specialties surgical and medical specialties and orthopedics - Required
• Experience of discharge planning, referral provision and use of outcome measures - Required
• Evidence of working within an multidisciplinary team including external multi agency - Required
• Languages:
• Ability to speak and write in English is required.
• Complexity of Work:
• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a fast paced environment and take appropriate action.
• Adaptability and flexibility are important in this role, including ability to work with different time zones and working with other cultures.
• Physical Requirements:
• Typical physical demands include ability to sit, stand or walk extensively.
• Be able to lead and assist in rehabilitation and manual handling of complex and potentially dependent patients with appropriate equipment and compliance with manual handling policies.
• Work in inpatient environment with potential interruptions such as acutely deteriorating patients requiring urgent review, emotionally challenging scenarios requiring intense focus and frequent exposure to potentially unpleasant materials such as bodily fluids.
• Personal Protective Equipment:
• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

Qualifications

Essential

• Education:
• Degree in relevant AHP area - Required
• Post-graduation experience and education in a variety of inpatient specialties including respiratory, neurological and general surgical - Required
• Evidence of continuous professional and academic development relevant to clinical field - Required
• Certifications:
• Current registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) - Required

Desirable

• Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) - Desirable
• Membership of special interest group - Desirable

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

Cleveland Clinic London

Address

Cleveland Clinic

33 Grosvenor Place

London

SW1X 7HY

Employer's website

https://jobs.clevelandclinic.org/ (Opens in a new tab)