Clinical Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To provide specialist assessment, treatment and management of a complex clinical caseload. Evaluate patient progress through the use of outcome measures and adjust treatment required to ensure effective discharge

2. To facilitate and co-ordinate patient pathways in a timely manner, completing relevant referrals, liaising with the multidisciplinary team and handover discharge plans to ward therapists. Liaise with health care professions to ensure smooth discharge, including GPs and district nurses.

3. To formulate and develop individually tailored physiotherapy treatment programmes/goals based on knowledge of evidence-based practice, sound clinical reasoning and treatment skills.

4. To provide expert knowledge and leadership in ventilator weaning, tracheostomy care and critical care rehabilitation. Provide training and education for staff.

5. To work effectively with all members of the MDT to provide holistic, patient-centred care

6. To lead MDT discussions and case conferences, promoting multi-disciplinary communication and working to ensure patients are receiving highest quality care

7. To train members of patients families, carers and nursing staff in correct manual handling and treatment procedures in relation to specific patients in your care.

8. To be involved where necessary with the washing, dressing and cleaning of patients if in association with treatment/assessment.

9. Communicate effectively and sensitively with patients and carers, discussing treatment and discharge plans and ensuring expectations are appropriate.

10. Involvement in the collection and analysis of stats.

Financial Responsibilities

11. You are expected to co-ordinate, monitor and review the use of financial resources within your budget and identify any savings that can be made.

Responsibilities for People or Training

12. To be responsible for the recruitment and retention of staff for the Acute physiotherapy team.

13. To meet regularly with the Physiotherapy team to cascade information, seek opinions and facilitate team support.

14. Identify training needs of the team and yourself and encourage a culture of evaluation, reflective practice and audit towards service improvement.

15. To encourage staff to attend relevant training as identified in PDPs

16. To be instrumental in the delivery of the appraisal scheme for the staff you supervise and to ensure all the staff in your team have had appraisal and personal development plans.

17. To support and facilitate student training establishments by providing suitable student clinical placements and support for staff who supervise students.

18. To manage all staff mandatory training, sickness levels and AL through e-roster with the assistance of HR and OH

19. Responsibility for the provision of a high standard of practice and patient management for all patients using the Great Western Hospital where own specialist knowledge and skills could enhance patient care.

20. To improve the profile of Physiotherapy in collaboration with other senior team members by providing teaching and training to the wider MDT

Other Factors

21. To be responsible for all equipment used by and supplied by the therapists, including the regular servicing of all equipment and the upkeep of log books.

22. The staff member will be required to work their contracted hours over 7 days a week participating in weekend working and overnight on calls according to service needs

23. To carry out on-going assessments and treatments for a wide variety of conditions with moderate physical effort repeatedly during the day.

24. The job requires concentration for most of the day often with frequent interruption especially by phone or bleep. It will be stressful at times aiming to have discharge plans in place in a timely manner especially during periods of escalation.

25. You may need to treat patients who have high levels of anxiety and aggression caused by pain, dementia or limited mobility.

26. You may need to treat patients in isolation, requiring you to wear full PPE often for prolonged periods of time.

27. You will be required to work alone in some environments and manage both the clinical and personal risk.

28. The job involves frequent exposure to unpleasant working conditions on a regular (daily basis), e.g. bodily fluids including sputum, vomit, urine, and occasional exposure to verbal and physical aggression.

29. You will frequently be exposed to distressing and emotional circumstances involving patients and relatives and occasionally have to deal with patients and relatives following a serious, traumatic or terminal incident.

Ensure Trust clinical and non-clinical policies, procedures and guidelines are strictly adhered to at all times.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• oHCPC registered physiotherapist

Desirable

• Management qualification

Experience

Essential

• Managing a team
• Managing and treating complex critical care patients.
• Managing tracheostomies and tracheostomy weans
• Evidence of clinical experience in critical care rehabilitation
• Multi-disciplinary working within critical care
• Service review and development
• Operational management
• Complex discharge planning and admission avoidance

Desirable

• Experience of recruitment process
• Experience of managing a Budget
• Counselling experience

Knowedge and Skills

Essential

• Good IT skills- Able to write reports, basic use of excel
• Leadership qualities- ability to delegate, support and supervise
• The ability to implement Evidence Based Practice into service delivery
• Recent participation in audit projects
• Ability to communicate complex or sensitive information about well-being to anxious patients and relatives.
• Ability to prepare and deliver presentations to a group of people
• Ability to inspire and motivate the team
• Lead by example a learning and reflective culture within the team
• Managing change and conflict

Desirable

• The ability to lead audit projects.
• Ability to network across organisations

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

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Great Western Hospital

Marlborough Road

Swindon

SN3 6BB

Employer's website

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