Band 6 Physiotherapist - Salford, United Kingdom - NHS Professionals

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Salford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Job Title:
Senior Physiotherapist

Jb Title:
Senior Physiotherapist

Band:
Band 6

Reports to:
Team Leader Physiotherapist

Responsible to:
Operational and Professional Lead

Base/Department:
Physiotherapy

Your normal place of work is Oldham Care Organisation or such other location within The Northern Care Organisation (formally Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust) or its associated sites where you may reasonably be required to work for the proper performanceand exercise of your duties.

Main Tasks & Overview of Responsibiler will work autonomously within Trust policy and professional practice and maintain accurate and comprehensive patient records.

To perform pecialist assessment and treatment of patients and determine a clinical diagnosis, develop, implement, evaluate and modify individualised treatment programmes, ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral toother agencies as required.

The patient will present with acute or chronic conditions, some of which may be complex.

For rotational post - To participate in the Band 6 rotational scheme, which may involve working in a range of ward settings - Orthopaedics, Medicine/Infectious Diseases unit, Acute Medical Unit.

To be responsible for your own clinical caseload in a defined clinical area. To work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) with indirect clinical supervision.

To supervise junior physiotherapists and therapy assistants.

To comply with statutory requirements for physiotherapy and with the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and HPC standards and codes of professional conduct

To access supervision and support from a senior physiotherapist. Clinical work is routinely peer reviewed and audited. Supervision takes the form of regular formal and informal training, clinical reasoning sessions and reflective practice.

To deputise for the team leader as required.

To be responsible for the personal development plan (PDP) of an identified junior team member.

Communications and Relationships

To ensure effective internal and external two-way communication with patients, carers and all other health, educational and social care professionals regarding all aspects of patient care, providing advice and support as appropriate to meet the patient orservice needs.

This also involves working with colleagues in a professional manner in order to provide the optimum service possible.

To provide spontaneous or planned advice, teaching and instruction to patients, relative, carers and other professionals, including trainees, which may be in response to complex, sensitive or contentious situations.

Thisrequires empathy, motivation, persuasionand reassurance. Communication skills will berequired where there are barriers to understanding, resistance or compliance e.g.

where English is the second language, patients who are dysphasic, visually or hearing impaired or patients who may be unable to acceptthe diagnosis.

To provide specialist assessment and advice for the multi-disciplinary team and actively participate in MDT meetings as appropriate.

Partnership working
To work in various locations, as agreed with the line manager, as per patient needs and service requirements.

To represent the Trust externally at a local level regarding physiotherapy services e.g. on specific working parties, partnership working with relevant external agencies.

Analytical and Judgmental Skills

To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical findings using advanced clinical reasoning and problem solving skills to form accurate diagnoses and prognoses in a wide range of complex conditions and to recommend the appropriate intervention and developcomprehensive care management and discharge plans.

To evaluate the effectiveness of treatment and modify accordingly, in discussion with senior physiotherapy clinicians as appropriate.

Planning and Organisational Skills
To manage designated workload and prioritise referrals/workload as appropriate.

To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients seeking advice as required and to organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.

To manage designated workload and prioritise referrals/workload as appropriate.

To provide the senior staff/managers with advice/information to assist the planning and development of the service, to achieve the departmental objectives.

Physical Skills
To demonstrate physical ability to carry out physiotherapy assessment and interventions including manual therapy techniques and therapeutic handling.

To use a range of manual physiotherapy skills when implementing a programme of care, demonstrating highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory sensory skills for assessment and manual treatment of patients**.