Job summary
Band 7 Physiotherapist
St Helens Community COPD Team
Permanent - 30 hours
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 Physiotherapist to join the St Helens COPD Team.
You will provide acute physiotherapeutic skills including breathlessness management and chest clearance support to prevent hospital admissions across the St Helen's locality as part of a multi-disciplinary team. You will be assisting the Respiratory Nurse Specialists in assessing, planning, delivering and evaluating evidence-based care for patients with respiratory disease within a hospital and community setting.
The JD &PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to change.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, be able to work as part of a team and be able to work flexibly to help meet the demands of the service.
Due to the nature of the post, it would be essential that the successful applicant is able to travel independently, have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes and hold a full UK driving licence.
As a Trust, we are committed to continuing professional and personal development and will therefore provide support with regular supervision and training. We are keen to promote collaborative practice and to develop staff within a supportive and friendly environment.
About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.
You will be expected to undertake the Trusts' commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To work within Trust clinical guidelines, HCPC and Registrant Body guidelines and to have a working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and others quality of practise against these
- To work in secondary care in a variety of hospital settings and the patients own homes.
- To demonstrate as appropriate to role highly developed physical skills for assessment and treatment of patients eg dexterity, co-ordination, palpatory and other senses.
- To deputise for senior staff in leading specific team.
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- To communicate complex patient and service related information effectively to Health and Wellbeing and local authority colleagues and third sector agencies.
- Use complex communication skills and knowledge when working with patients, their families and other provider agencies.
- To involve the patient and the family/carers in all relevant discussions about their management and decisions that are made about treatment techniques and facilitating patient involvement in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of the service.
- To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- Delivering high level and complex triage, clinical assessment, diagnostics, treatment and evaluation of the needs within the trust.
- Providing leadership; promoting a learning culture for colleagues and other agencies; leading service innovations and demonstrating high level problem solving.
- Ensuring excellence in service delivery through personal and service development, underpinned by evidence based practice and research, embedded in the quality assurance agenda.
- Driving innovation; managing the change process to ensure your service continues to be flexible and proactive to reflect the needs of the trust.
- To triage patients with complex needs.
- To undertake complex clinical assessments of patients/ service users within sphere of advanced practice.
- To determine a clinical diagnosis and make high level decisions regarding appropriate treatment/ care plans.
- Implement complex care/ interventions according to clinical need.
- Evaluate complex care/ interventions based on evidence from clinical outcomes and best practice.
- To provide advanced clinical advice, support and training to patients/ service users, families, carers and professional colleagues to improve their journey and their health and wellbeing.
- To be professionally accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients in your care.
- Registered practitioners who are non-medical prescribers are accountable for their prescribing activities by ensuring they are aware of their Professional accountability and any restrictions or special considerations in their prescribing practice.
- To develop and maintain the high level clinical skills required to work as an advanced practitioner.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To work within Trust clinical guidelines, HCPC and Registrant Body guidelines and to have a working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and others quality of practise against these
- To work in secondary care in a variety of hospital settings and the patients own homes.
- To demonstrate as appropriate to role highly developed physical skills for assessment and treatment of patients eg dexterity, co-ordination, palpatory and other senses.
- To deputise for senior staff in leading specific team.
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- To communicate complex patient and service related information effectively to Health and Wellbeing and local authority colleagues and third sector agencies.
- Use complex communication skills and knowledge when working with patients, their families and other provider agencies.
- To involve the patient and the family/carers in all relevant discussions about their management and decisions that are made about treatment techniques and facilitating patient involvement in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of the service.
- To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- Delivering high level and complex triage, clinical assessment, diagnostics, treatment and evaluation of the needs within the trust.
- Providing leadership; promoting a learning culture for colleagues and other agencies; leading service innovations and demonstrating high level problem solving.
- Ensuring excellence in service delivery through personal and service development, underpinned by evidence based practice and research, embedded in the quality assurance agenda.
- Driving innovation; managing the change process to ensure your service continues to be flexible and proactive to reflect the needs of the trust.
- To triage patients with complex needs.
- To undertake complex clinical assessments of patients/ service users within sphere of advanced practice.
- To determine a clinical diagnosis and make high level decisions regarding appropriate treatment/ care plans.
- Implement complex care/ interventions according to clinical need.
- Evaluate complex care/ interventions based on evidence from clinical outcomes and best practice.
- To provide advanced clinical advice, support and training to patients/ service users, families, carers and professional colleagues to improve their journey and their health and wellbeing.
- To be professionally accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients in your care.
- Registered practitioners who are non-medical prescribers are accountable for their prescribing activities by ensuring they are aware of their Professional accountability and any restrictions or special considerations in their prescribing practice.
- To develop and maintain the high level clinical skills required to work as an advanced practitioner.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Physiotherapist
- HCPC registration
- 2 years post graduate NHS experience
Desirable
- Clinical Educators Certificate
- Post Grad accredited study e.g. MSc in relevant health studies
- Member of relevant specialist groups e.g. ACPRC, BTS
Experience
Essential
- Advanced clinical knowledge relevant to the COPD and respiratory environment
- Experience of assessment and treatment in the community
- Experience of line managing a team including setting objectives, conducting appraisals and effective delegation and co-ordination
- Knowledge of relevant national policies, guidance and relevant assessment tools used in the cardiac care environment
- Awareness of own strengths and limitations
- Evidence of effective working within an MDT
- Demonstrate experience of problem-solving approaches
- Demonstrates Continuous Professional Development
- Experience of Service development
Desirable
- Audit and research in a clinical area
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrates ability to motivate team performance to achieve service objectives
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines proving great time management skills
- Ability to communicate effectively in a variety of settings
- Accurate record keeping, report writing and IT skills including presentation skills
- Have a flexible approach to working
Desirable
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel to various hospital locations and patient homes by own car/ assisted driver
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Physiotherapist
- HCPC registration
- 2 years post graduate NHS experience
Desirable
- Clinical Educators Certificate
- Post Grad accredited study e.g. MSc in relevant health studies
- Member of relevant specialist groups e.g. ACPRC, BTS
Experience
Essential
- Advanced clinical knowledge relevant to the COPD and respiratory environment
- Experience of assessment and treatment in the community
- Experience of line managing a team including setting objectives, conducting appraisals and effective delegation and co-ordination
- Knowledge of relevant national policies, guidance and relevant assessment tools used in the cardiac care environment
- Awareness of own strengths and limitations
- Evidence of effective working within an MDT
- Demonstrate experience of problem-solving approaches
- Demonstrates Continuous Professional Development
- Experience of Service development
Desirable
- Audit and research in a clinical area
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrates ability to motivate team performance to achieve service objectives
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines proving great time management skills
- Ability to communicate effectively in a variety of settings
- Accurate record keeping, report writing and IT skills including presentation skills
- Have a flexible approach to working
Desirable
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel to various hospital locations and patient homes by own car/ assisted driver
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).
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).
