Detailed job description and main responsibilities

(Job overview cont.) 

The successful post holder will be part of a dynamic, experienced team providing a high standard of clinical care to patients. Our team comprises of registered clinicians and support staff. We are a large acute trust with physiotherapy  outpatient sub-specialties include MSK, hydrotherapy, rheumatology, pelvic  health, neurology, paediatrics and staff wellbeing.  Orthopaedic in-patient specialities include Major Trauma Centre, Spinal Cord injuries, our brand new Princess Royal Surgical Centre treating elective patients including limb reconstruction and day case procedures. 

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical 

•    To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in their care
•    To undertake a comprehensive examination and assessment of patients including those with diverse presentations/multi pathologies; use specialised clinical reasoning skills and manual examination techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition
•    Based on the examination, assessment, diagnosis, and current best practice to clinically reason and formulate a physiotherapy treatment plan.  
•    To deliver an individual physiotherapy treatment programme, this could include manual physiotherapy techniques, patient education, exercise classes, electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, and other alternatives
•    To constantly re-examine the patient’s response to treatment and modify programme accordingly
•    To formulate accurate prognoses, expected outcome, recommend best course of intervention, and develop comprehensive discharge plans
•    To continually evaluate own clinical practice based on valid research evidence and audit including national and local clinical guidelines
•    To motivate and encourage patients to actively participate in physiotherapy programme
•    To identify and participate in suitable audit and research topics involving the University and multi-professional team to ensure effectiveness
•    To organise and prioritise own workload and delegate responsibility as appropriate
•    To take responsibility for managing patients with particular conditions, some of which are complex and be responsible for providing specialised physiotherapy input for patients with these conditions
•    To communicate clinical findings to the patient, assess their understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent, and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment
•    To use a range of verbal and non-verbal tools to communicate effectively with patients and carers to progress rehabilitation and treatment programmes.  This will include patients who may have difficulties in understanding or communicating e.g., patients who may be dysphasic, deaf, blind, or unable to accept diagnosis
•    To provide patients and carers with relevant advice and information to enable them to manage their condition.  To use effective problem-solving skills and patient centred goal setting to achieve the best outcome for the patient. 
•    To communicate effectively verbally and non-verbally with all members of multi-disciplinary team (MDT) e.g., Doctors, nurses, social workers, other AHPs, physiotherapy colleagues and outside agencies.  This often involves membership of multiple MDTs
•    To run exercise, advice, and education groups in the MSK outpatient department as required
•    To be an active member of the physiotherapy 7 day working rota 

Specific Duties and Responsibilities 

•    To manage clinical risk within own patient case load
•    To work within Trust and CSP guidelines 
•    To monitor practice of juniors and support staff under-taking delegated tasks and advise/guide as appropriate
•    To be responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient treatment records in line with Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) standards of practice
•    To be responsible for the safe and competent use of all electrotherapy equipment, gym equipment and patient appliances and aids used by patients including manual handling equipment
•    To be responsible for the supervision, education, and evaluation of performance of physiotherapy students to graduate standard of practice; and to ensure that teaching meets the standards set by the level of qualification

Professional 

•    To have professional and legal accountability in accordance with the CSP Core Standards of Physiotherapy Practice and the HCPC standards of proficiency, conduct, performance and ethics.
•    To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through CPD activities and maintain a portfolio which reflects professional and personal development 
•    To continually evaluate own clinical practice based on valid research evidence, evidence-based practice and audit; including national and local clinical guidelines 
•    To participate in the staff appraisal scheme as an appraisee and be responsible for complying with the agreed objectives and personal development programme to meet set knowledge and competencies, plus service needs 
•    To participate in staff appraisal scheme as an appraiser of junior staff and assistants. To be responsible for agreeing objectives and personal development programme with appraisee to meet set knowledge, competencies and service needs 
•    To be an active member of the CPD training programme by participation in, in-service training programmes, tutorials, individual training sessions, external courses and peer review as appropriate 
•    To undertake as directed the collection of data for use in service audit and research projects 
•    To undertake the measurement and evaluation of practice within team through use of evidence-based practice projects, audit and outcome measures 
•    To ensure that your own practice and that of staff under your supervision meet the required professional standards of physiotherapy practice 
•    Deputise for the Band 7 in their absence, taking responsibility for operational management of the team, allocating and organising the work of junior and assistant staff to ensure service priorities are met 
•    To be responsible for organizing and planning own caseload to meet service and patient priorities, re-adjusting plans as situations change/arise on a day-to-day basis 

Organisational

•    To keep up-to-date and comply with Trust procedures and policies including Health & Safety, Fire Regulations, Equal Opportunities etc
•    To maintain a high standard of confidentiality at all times
•    To promote high quality communication and liaison across the whole Health and Social Care Community. 
•    To undertake any additional duties appropriate to the post as may be delegated 
•    To act as an ambassador for the service at all times.
•    To participate in the Clinical Governance programme in its delivery.
•    To deal with informal complaints in line with the Trust guidelines

Please note if we have large number of applications this post will likely close early