Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist - Manchester, United Kingdom - NHS Professionals

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1 month ago

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POST:
Specialist Physiotherapist - Community Neuro Rehabilitation Team


DEPARTMENT:
Community Neuro Rehabilitation Team


BAND:6


HOURS PER WEEK: 37.5 hours


REPORTS TO:
AHP Lead (North)/Rehabilitation Service Manager/Team Lead/Professional Body


RESPONSIBLE FOR:
Support Workers and Students


WORK BASE:
Charlestown Road Health Centre


JOB PURPOSE

  • Assess and treat own caseload of patients in a variety of settings including patients homes and clinics who need specialist neurological rehabilitation.
  • To act as an autonomous practitioner and source of expertise in these areas to junior staff and other health care professionals.
  • Undertakes training including audit and evaluation. To be involved in the training and supervision of student physiotherapists

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES
Responsibilities for patient care

  • To work as an independent practitioner in the assessment and management or complex patients, using clinical reasoning and a variety of evidencebased, expert skills. Working in a variety of settings including patients own homes, intermediate care unitsand residential homes.
  • To ensure regular review of the caseload within a patient centered goal setting model and make decisions regarding own capacity against patient complexity and prioritising as appropriate.
  • Support on the Implementation of evidence based interventions, pathway development and progress of teams to ensure a high quality, effective and efficient therapy service is provided to clients receiving physiotherapy interventions across the MLCO.
  • To provide guidance and advice to other professions and bodies in the community, integrated neighbourhood teams regarding area of expertise in physiotherapy and to the patients and their carer's.
Communication

  • To be actively engaged and be responsible for linking with acute and community staff where relevant to support best practice and smooth pathways.
  • To employ excellent communication skills to enable patients, families and carers, some of whom may have highly challenging communication impairments, to understand and engage in intervention and demonstrate skills in motivating patients.
  • To negotiate conflict at clinical levels and alert the senior specialist to this and to any cases with ethical and legal implications.
  • To support the Team Leader and senior clinicians in managing service provision, shortfalls, staffing issues and training requirements of team members and provide suggestions for change. To deputise in times of absence keeping open channels of communicationwith all team members.
Service Development/Managerial

  • To provide leadership, supervision and training to band 5 staff and support workers.
  • Assist as part of the wider team in completing clinical governance action plans, and in strategic planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the clinical aspects within the speciality service.
  • To support on implementation and development of clinical guidelines and local policies ensuring evidencebased, and audited.
  • To generate initiatives within the service to contribute to the development of the Service Plan and priorities.
  • To audit own/team practice against current research and government guidelines to recommend changes to service delivery and clinical practice.
  • To contribute with the team taking part in the NICE process and any baseline assessments relevant to the team that are identified at governance and completed.
  • To maintain own clinical professional development (CPD) by keeping abreast of any trends and developments, incorporating this as necessary into your work. Undertake own CPD, maintain up to date knowledge of speciality through research, IST and work ofclinical interest groups.
  • To deputise for the Team Lead in times of absence with day to day team operations.
  • To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients.
  • To be aware of the cost/benefit implications in the selection of appropriate equipment/products to be provided for patient longterm use as an individual.
Partnership working

  • To support promotion of partnership working with multidisciplinary team and multiagency and social services partners inside and outside the MLCO.
  • To support the team leader with initiatives to ensure that the service contributes to the public and patient involvement process.


The above indicates the main duties of the post, which may be reviewed in the light of experience and developments within the service.

Any review will be undertaken in conjunction with the post holder


KEY RELATIONSHIPS

  • Health and Social care professionals within the Manchester Local Care Organisation
  • Professionals with in Greater Manchester Acute Hospital Settings
  • Voluntary sector partners
  • Care agencies
  • Care Homes
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