Job summary
The post holder will be a Band 7 Physiotherapist specialising in respiratory care within paediatrics and participating as a member of the Gloucestershire Children's Physiotherapy team independently managing a specialised clinical caseload. This involves assessment, advising, planning, delivering and evaluating treatment for a complex caseload of children and their families. They may also co-ordinate a local team on a day-to-day basis taking responsibility for delegation, supervision, development and teaching.
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 purpose of this post is to provide highly specialist physiotherapy outside of the hospital setting, for children presenting with complex respiratory needs.
This role will include ongoing maintenance physiotherapy programmes, manual techniques, suction and other airway clearance techniques, including suction. 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 collaboratively develop the service and provide a source of expertise locally, providing education and support for parents/carers and community staff caring for these children. The post holder will provide leadership within the Children & Young People's Physiotherapy Service providing, co-ordinating, developing, auditing and evaluating the service ensuring it is evidence based and in line with Clinical Governance requirements. This post is community based and the post holder will carry his/her own caseload and at times will be expected to work independently in locations away from base.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
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 work load
- 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 treatment skills and options to plan a specialised programme of care for use in the community
- 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
- To identify and initiate audit projects to review current clinical practice
- To participate in clinics appropriate to the childs physiotherapy respiratory management
- To work to Trust and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy clinical guidelines and have a good working knowledge of relevant national standards to which quality of practice should be monitored
- To assist the Service lead with the prioritisation and management of the departmental patient caseload
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner
- To plan and organise own work load
- 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 treatment skills and options to plan a specialised programme of care for use in the community
- 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
- To identify and initiate audit projects to review current clinical practice
- To participate in clinics appropriate to the childs physiotherapy respiratory management
- To work to Trust and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy clinical guidelines and have a good working knowledge of relevant national standards to which quality of practice should be monitored
- To assist the Service lead with the prioritisation and management of the departmental patient caseload
Person Specification
essential and desirable
Essential
- Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy
Desirable
- Experience of working closely with medical practitioners and working across professional boundaries
- Appropriate range of postgraduate clinical education
essential and desirable
Essential
- State Registered Physiotherapist (HCPC)
Person Specification
essential and desirable
Essential
- Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy
Desirable
- Experience of working closely with medical practitioners and working across professional boundaries
- Appropriate range of postgraduate clinical education
essential and desirable
Essential
- State Registered Physiotherapist (HCPC)
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
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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).
