Specialty Physiotherapist - Vascular and Emergency Surgery Team Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical

1. To undertake the role adhering to regulatory, professional and organisational standards of practice.

2. To undertake assessment, therapeutic intervention and management of patients, including those with highly complex presentations, deploying sound clinical reasoning and skills within the scope of the role.

3. To work with patients, their carers, and members of the MDT to form appropriate care and treatment plans utilising specialist treatment skills, knowledge of evidence-base and a variety of treatment options.

4. To assimilate and analyse a range of information to form accurate therapy diagnoses, clinical problems and treatment plans in a wide range of highly complex conditions

5. To formulate accurate prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing and implementing comprehensive treatment and discharge plans

6. To evaluate and reassess patients to progress their treatment and management plans effectively.

7. To assess a patient's capacity to understand and to gain valid, informed consent for treatment. To work within a legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to consent or refuse treatment.

8. To advise and educate patient, carers, relatives, and other health professionals.

9. To demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information to patients, carers and other staff, where there may be barriers to communication e.g. non-English speaking patients; those with communication disorders, impaired speech, hearing, and ensure all members of the team do likewise.

10. To liaise with and advise other physiotherapists, occupational therapists, relevant medical and nursing staff, social workers and other health care professionals in clinical and operational matters.

11. To communicate effectively with all other disciplines involved in the patient's care both in the hospital and in the community thus ensuring a multidisciplinary approach and integrated service.

12. To identify, assess and manage clinical risk within the teams work and engage with the governance structure of the department to minimise risk of harm.

13. To participate in weekend, and emergency on-call duties as part of the Trusts seven day working and out of hours services.

14. To demonstrate physical ability to carry out physiotherapy assessment and interventions including manual therapy techniques and therapeutic handling.

Management

1. To effectively supervise, teach and appraise junior staff, assistants, and students to maximise their capabilities.

2. To be responsible for the daily operational leadership of the VES team alongside the B7 occupational therapist ensuring that the service is delivered against its specification and staff are supported in this endeavour.

3. To be responsible for competent use and maintenance reporting of equipment used as part of the role and to ensure that all staff/students and assistants attain competency prior to use.

4. To effectively plan, organise and manage your own time, patient caseload, meetings, training in accordance with operational and workforce pressures.

5. To be able to respond to unpredictable demands on your time and frequent interruptions whilst maintaining professionalism.

6. To assist in the planning of juniors, students and assistants timetables and deputise for the senior staff in organisational duties.

7. To take an active role in assisting senior colleagues with service development.

Education

1. To complete all statutory, mandatory and other necessary training requirements within the required timescales.

2. To contribute to the education of the MDT, patients, families and carers to ensure optimal care, treatment, health promotion and disease prevention.

3. To maintain an accurate and contemporary record of personal and professional development.

4. To oversee the design and delivery of an effective and clinically relevant training programme to support staff development.

5. To attend and actively participate in departmental education and development activities.

6. To maintain and develop current knowledge of evidence-based practice particularly in emergency surgery and gastroenterology with an overview of developments within vascular care ensuring specialist within the vascular team are equipped to develop specialist services.

Research and governance:

1. To lead and supervise clinical audit and quality improvement work aiming to improve the quality of the teams practice.

2. To maintain clinically applied knowledge formed from contemporary science and evidence-based guidance and ensure this is integrated into the teams clinical delivery by way of policy and procedure.

3. To lead the teams governance arrangements ensuring that the team operates on the basis of openness and a just culture.

4. Represent the team at governance meetings held within the clinical group.

General:

1. To carry out physiotherapy assessments and treatments on a daily basis, with moderate physical effort.

2. To comply with the Trusts manual handling policy and local therapeutic handling guidelines.

3. To work in an environment where the work patterns may be disrupted by frequent demands from patients, clinical staff, students and administrative support staff.

4. To support qualified staff when indicated in the management of challenging patients.

5. To sensitively deal with distressing or emotional circumstances regarding patient care e.g. imparting news of challenging outcomes such as a life limiting or palliative prognosis, lifestyle adjustments (TPN/PEG feeds, long term drains/stomas) or chronic pain management.

6. To deal with patients suffering from debilitating acute conditions (e.g., necrotising pancreatitis) that may lead to disengagement, anxiety or aggressive behaviour.

7. To comply with all Trust policies and procedures and Health and Safety at Work Act, including adherence to universal precautions and infection control measures, and ensure that staff within the team are aware of their responsibilities.

8. To participate in the Trust Appraisal Scheme as an appraiser and an appraisee.

9. To attend and be an active participant in departmental staff and peer group meetings.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

• Degree in Physiotherapy
• Health and care professions council registration
• Evidence of postgraduate continuing professional development in surgery

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience of effectively managing surgical patients with complex comorbidities and high acuity including management of respiratory need.
• Broad range of junior experience across surgery, respiratory, orthopaedics, MSK, gerontology and neurology specialties.
• Participation in on-call and weekend rota.

Physiotherapy and multidisciplinary team Skills, knowledge & abilities

Essential

• Advanced clinical knowledge and reasoning skills in emergency surgery and gastroenterology, the management of patients post ICU and their respiratory care.
• Advanced understanding of complex socioeconomic needs within the patient group, ability to assess risk and frailty.
• Involvement in leading teams, setting culture and bringing direction.
• Effective people mentoring and development skills.
• Understands and applies the principles of equality, inclusivity and diversity to all aspects of leadership and clinical practice.
• Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Proven organisational skills, including prioritisation and delegation
• Ability to work within a stressful and unpredictable environment
• Competent digital IT skills
• Awareness and an ability to enact the Trust values.
• Understands and applies principles of good clinical governance to prevent harm.
• Able to lead and organise a team on a daily basis, including the skills to resolve current clinical and operational issues

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Understands constituents of effective team performance
• Positive and growth mindset
• High reliability
• Good communicator
• Empathetic
• Supportive of others
• Able to carry out moderate physical effort throughout the working day and carry out concurrent activities.
• Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust's policies of data protection, equal opportunities and Health and Safety.

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

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

John Radcliffe Hospital

Headley Way

Headington, Oxford

OX3 9DU

Employer's website

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