Bank Physiotherapist Band 6

Job responsibilities

Royal Free World Class Values:

The post holder will offer World Class Care to service users, staff, colleagues, clients and patients alike.

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

1.To be professional, legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care and support more junior staff to do likewise.

2.To undertake comprehensive assessments of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations or multiple pathologies, using clinical reasoning skills and a variety of assessment techniques to provide an accurate analysis of their condition.

3.To be able to analyse clinical and social information from a range of sources and integrate this into your assessment in order to identify goals, develop a treatment plan and deliver patient centred care.

4.To deliver effective, evidence based physiotherapy treatment that is modified to reflect the patients on-going needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES FOR PATIENTS

1.To be responsible for own practice and accountable for all aspects of physiotherapy treatment and care delivered to the patient.

2.To be responsible for maintaining evidence based clinical practice both for self and band five physiotherapist /support worker members of the team under supervision.

3.To be able to motivate and persuade patients with a range of conditions to work with treatment programmes and work towards treatment goals.

4.To organise and lead family meetings and case conferences as required in order to facilitate realistic goal setting and appropriate discharge planning.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

1.To ensure compliance with NHS, Trust, professional body (HCPC / CSP) and Departmental policies and procedures as an individual and by band 5 physiotherapists /support workers under supervision.

2.To be responsible for organising and planning own caseload to meet service needs and patient priorities, readjusting plans as situations change/arise, on a day-to-day basis. To assist band 5 physiotherapy / support worker staff to do likewise.

3.To ensure that appropriate risk assessment/management occurs within designated area, reporting back to senior.

4.To work on any of the Trust sites as requested.

**For further information please refer to the attached JD/PS**

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Education & Qualifications

Essential

• Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration as a physiotherapist
• Diploma/Degree in Occupational therapy or physiotherapy

Desirable

• Membership of Special Interest Group
• Evidence of attendance at relevant postgraduate courses

Personal Qualities & attributes

Essential

• Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of current occupational therapy or physiotherapy in relevant area.
• Awareness of Evidence Based practice.
• Understanding of legal responsibilities of the profession such as confidentiality, consent and documentation.
• Understanding of clinical governance and its implication for services, including experience of quality issues and audit

Desirable

• Knowledge of current NHS, Emergency Medicine and local issues.

Experience

Essential

• Experience in a broad acute rotational post, including A&E and acute medicine
• Experience with complex discharge planning.

Desirable

• Experience of working at band 6 level

Skills & Aptitudes

Essential

• Able to display transdisciplinary working competencies across Occupational therapy and Physiotherapy.
• Able to make decisions in an emergency and work under pressure.
• Able to document information accurately.
• Able to demonstrate sound reasoning skills.
• Effective Communication Skills.
• Ability to participate in weekend, bank-holiday and extended hours rota.
• Ability to identify deteriorating patient
• Evidence of teaching and supervision skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Computer literate.

Desirable

• Ability to carry out ward based respiratory assessment and treatment.
• Evidence of student or occupational therapy assistant supervision.
• Involvement in audit, research and understanding of quality issues.
• Presentation skills.

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).