Job overview

Providing care to a multi cultural and diverse population, to deliver a high standard of physiotherapy  care to patients and their carers in the community.

To perform comprehensive physiotherapy  assessment of people with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions. To use this assessment to provide a clinical diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment program.

To hold responsibility for your own caseload and, working without direct supervision but together with the other members of the MDT, deliver a comprehensive package of care to patients and their carers.  Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case review and case conferences.  Access to advice and support from a more senior physiotherapist is available when required.

Main duties of the job

1.1 To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work and that work delegated to support staff.

1.2 To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies: using a high level of clinical reasoning and assessment techniques to provide an accurate clinical diagnosis.

1.3 To utilise an extensive knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options to select and deliver a specialised occupational therapy programme to individual patients and plan their successful discharge.

1.4 Carry out assessments and treatments of neuro/muscular skeletal conditions with moderate physical, and significant mental and emotional effort on a daily basis.

1.5 To take responsibility for a delegated caseload, ensuring that the MDT is fully involved as required.

1.6 To assess patient 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.

1.7 To be responsible for maintaining accurate comprehensive patient treatment records in line with Royal College of Occupational Therapy (RCOT) standards of practice and ECS/RF policies and to communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports and letters.

Working for our organisation

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/