Band 7 Physiotherapist: Senior Specialist Older Adults
| Posting date: | 29 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,178 - £55,492 per annum/incl HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2024 |
| Location: | Uxbridge, UB8 3NN |
| Company: | The Hillingdon Hospital |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6204325/394-SSOAP-290424 |
Summary
A Vacancy at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our older adult therapy team at The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust. The older adult therapy team provides specialist therapy input on the acute and rehabilitation care of the elderly wards. Along with the band 7 Occupational Therapist, the successful candidate will jointly lead the therapy provision on the acute care of the elderly wards and provide weekly cover on the Trust’s 20 bedded, dementia friendly Beaconsfield East ward. Both teams have established, and diverse MDT consists of Consultants, junior doctors, nurses, OTs, PTs, support workers, discharge coordinators and community colleagues.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated physiotherapist to work in a blended therapy approach and play a key role in the assessment, treatment, and discharge of older adults. You will be a valued member of the multidisciplinary team and will be working alongside supportive therapy colleagues. You will have opportunity to gain specialist and blended clinical skills and participate in service development projects. As part of this role, you will support and lead a team consisting of rotational qualified staff and static support workers.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
• To provide highly specialised clinical assessment, treatment planning and delivery of care for patients within Older Adult Therapy. These patients may have complex needs and diverse, acute, and chronic presentations.
• To work with a blended approach having a competent skill base to provide therapy input, being aware of own-professional limitations. Including completing Discharge to Assess forms / Needs Based Assessment forms, contacting relatives and carers for social history.
• To determine problems, goals and treatment indicated for them and maintain high quality records as an autonomous practitioner and ensure others do the same.
• To transfer patient care to community partners in a timely manner, contributing to appropriate patient flow pathways.
• To take a lead role in supervision and development of qualified therapists, support workers, students other professionals and MDT members, always promoting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary working.
• To provide expert advice information and recommendations to Health and Social care professionals, carers, and relatives in relation to your service.
• To provide skilled team leadership and be responsible for operational management, team development, implementation of policy and policy changes in own clinical area and monitor standards of practice.
• To contribute to the Trust Governance agenda, including the delivery of safe, effective high-quality care.
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust’s services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.
The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this – particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,
community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals
provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.
We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.
Please refer to the attached job description
Clinical Care and Service Development
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care.
• To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients and ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and those of more junior staff, using resources effectively to manage competing priorities and demands across the team and wider service.
• To undertake comprehensive specialist therapy assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills and with a holistic approach. To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to recommend and implement the best course of intervention and determine safety for discharge.
• To have specialist knowledge of treatment approaches and PT assessment tools, underpinned with theoretical knowledge, specialist training or relevant practical experience.
• To understand how interventions may change in response to social, cultural, or psychological needs.
• To have knowledge and ensure appropriate use of outcome measures (both standardised and non-standardised) to measure the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions.
• To demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning skills and knowledge with documented process. To monitor, evaluate, and modify treatments and interventions with measured progress and ensuring effectiveness of therapy input.
• To gain informed consent prior to treatment and can work within the legal framework with patients to provide appropriate intervention and care to patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment or to make specific decisions in a manner which supports their best interests, and to recognise and take appropriate action in relation to the Mental Capacity Act (2005) when the need arises.
• To provide formal and informal advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, and other professionals, based on theoretical academic knowledge and relevant practical experience.
• To be responsible for patient care plans and ensure documentation is completed according to professional and local standards, and to ensure compliance by junior staff.
• To formulate soundly reasoned prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing negotiated goals, recognising when optimum levels of recovery have been achieved. To provide sensitive and specialised clinical advice and recommendations to patients, families, and carers re outcome of therapy input.
• To assess and manage clinical risk within own patient caseload and support the team in managing and minimising risks related to patient discharges.
• To delegate responsibility to more junior staff and to take delegated responsibility from more senior staff as appropriate.
• Deputise for the Team Lead as required, taking responsibility for operational management of the team as appropriate and required.
• Teach Patients self-management skills to minimise the impact of ill health on their function.
• To participate in the Orthopaedic weekend rota and Respiratory On-Call/ out of hours rota providing clinically effective assessment and treatment of acutely unwell respiratory patients (for physio).
• The Trust is moving towards a 7-day service and this role will include weekend working.
This advert closes on Sunday 12 May 2024
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our older adult therapy team at The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust. The older adult therapy team provides specialist therapy input on the acute and rehabilitation care of the elderly wards. Along with the band 7 Occupational Therapist, the successful candidate will jointly lead the therapy provision on the acute care of the elderly wards and provide weekly cover on the Trust’s 20 bedded, dementia friendly Beaconsfield East ward. Both teams have established, and diverse MDT consists of Consultants, junior doctors, nurses, OTs, PTs, support workers, discharge coordinators and community colleagues.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated physiotherapist to work in a blended therapy approach and play a key role in the assessment, treatment, and discharge of older adults. You will be a valued member of the multidisciplinary team and will be working alongside supportive therapy colleagues. You will have opportunity to gain specialist and blended clinical skills and participate in service development projects. As part of this role, you will support and lead a team consisting of rotational qualified staff and static support workers.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
• To provide highly specialised clinical assessment, treatment planning and delivery of care for patients within Older Adult Therapy. These patients may have complex needs and diverse, acute, and chronic presentations.
• To work with a blended approach having a competent skill base to provide therapy input, being aware of own-professional limitations. Including completing Discharge to Assess forms / Needs Based Assessment forms, contacting relatives and carers for social history.
• To determine problems, goals and treatment indicated for them and maintain high quality records as an autonomous practitioner and ensure others do the same.
• To transfer patient care to community partners in a timely manner, contributing to appropriate patient flow pathways.
• To take a lead role in supervision and development of qualified therapists, support workers, students other professionals and MDT members, always promoting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary working.
• To provide expert advice information and recommendations to Health and Social care professionals, carers, and relatives in relation to your service.
• To provide skilled team leadership and be responsible for operational management, team development, implementation of policy and policy changes in own clinical area and monitor standards of practice.
• To contribute to the Trust Governance agenda, including the delivery of safe, effective high-quality care.
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust’s services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.
The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this – particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,
community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals
provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.
We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.
Please refer to the attached job description
Clinical Care and Service Development
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care.
• To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients and ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and those of more junior staff, using resources effectively to manage competing priorities and demands across the team and wider service.
• To undertake comprehensive specialist therapy assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills and with a holistic approach. To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to recommend and implement the best course of intervention and determine safety for discharge.
• To have specialist knowledge of treatment approaches and PT assessment tools, underpinned with theoretical knowledge, specialist training or relevant practical experience.
• To understand how interventions may change in response to social, cultural, or psychological needs.
• To have knowledge and ensure appropriate use of outcome measures (both standardised and non-standardised) to measure the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions.
• To demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning skills and knowledge with documented process. To monitor, evaluate, and modify treatments and interventions with measured progress and ensuring effectiveness of therapy input.
• To gain informed consent prior to treatment and can work within the legal framework with patients to provide appropriate intervention and care to patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment or to make specific decisions in a manner which supports their best interests, and to recognise and take appropriate action in relation to the Mental Capacity Act (2005) when the need arises.
• To provide formal and informal advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, and other professionals, based on theoretical academic knowledge and relevant practical experience.
• To be responsible for patient care plans and ensure documentation is completed according to professional and local standards, and to ensure compliance by junior staff.
• To formulate soundly reasoned prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing negotiated goals, recognising when optimum levels of recovery have been achieved. To provide sensitive and specialised clinical advice and recommendations to patients, families, and carers re outcome of therapy input.
• To assess and manage clinical risk within own patient caseload and support the team in managing and minimising risks related to patient discharges.
• To delegate responsibility to more junior staff and to take delegated responsibility from more senior staff as appropriate.
• Deputise for the Team Lead as required, taking responsibility for operational management of the team as appropriate and required.
• Teach Patients self-management skills to minimise the impact of ill health on their function.
• To participate in the Orthopaedic weekend rota and Respiratory On-Call/ out of hours rota providing clinically effective assessment and treatment of acutely unwell respiratory patients (for physio).
• The Trust is moving towards a 7-day service and this role will include weekend working.
This advert closes on Sunday 12 May 2024