Clinical Specialist Community Neuro Physiotherapist
| Posting date: | 19 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £43,742.00 to £50,056.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £43742.00 - £50056.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 September 2024 |
| Location: | Taunton, TA1 4DY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9184-24-1873 |
Summary
There is the expectation that the post holder will undertake an Enhanced Clinical Practitioners qualification or similar, to enable work at an enhanced level of practice with specific knowledge and skills in a field of expertise. It should be noted that experienced staff who have completed post qualification study and who are acting at an enhanced level of practice would not normally need to undertake the apprenticeship. The post holder will consult with patients, their family, carers and the multi professional team to undertake assessments of the neurological patient needs and devise and evaluate complex care plans, such as therapy intervention and Goal setting. You will critically evaluate and analyse clinical problems using your expertise and clinical knowledge, seeking out and applying relevant evidence, enhanced clinical assessments, diagnostics, interventions, and equipment to make clinical decisions. You will deliver complex clinical care in the context of continual change, challenging environments, different models of care delivery, innovation and rapidly evolving technologies using critical analysis and your underpinning knowledge, to manage complex interventions. You will teach and advise patients and their families/carers and colleagues how to manage their condition or support the multi-disciplinary team to do so. You will be a skilled, autonomous practitioner working as a core member of the Rehabilitation service, Acute therapy team and Neighbourhoods and wider multidisciplinary team to deliver high quality care to Neurological patients. You will possess the skills, competence, expertise and clinical decision-making abilities required to plan, co-ordinate and carry out enhanced rehabilitation treatment for patients with neurological conditions within the community setting. You will be expected to collaborate with other therapy teams within the wider health and social care system providing support and aiding patient transition between these services Build relationship and trust between Acute and Community Therapist teams working together within the patient journey for highly complex patients requiring Physiotherapy for neurological conditions Communicate complex clinical information both written and verbal, in an easily understood form, to patients, carers, and all members of the multi-disciplinary team Explain the prognosis of the patients condition to them and, at times, their carer in a sensitive and supportive manner Working with GPs, Neighbourhood services, Acute therapy teams and community stakeholders to ensure the needs of the patient and family are placed at the centre of care delivery. Promoting an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through research, evidence-based practice, and support the ACPs and Clinical Specialists in research/teaching etc Facilitating and delivering education, training, and clinical support for the enhancement of clinical practice and support the ACPs and Clinical Specialists in research/teaching etc Support the ACPs and Clinical Specialists to provide high quality evidenced based practice within caseload and the achievement of development, research and audit goals throughout the Neighbourhoods Establish links and networks with other therapy professionals in similar roles locally and nationally. Plan and prioritise your own clinical workload, ensuring a prompt and efficient service using clinical judgement and departmental guidelines Support teams/ specific member of teams to manage caseloads and help with prioritisation of caseload based on information given at point of entry to service Delegating work to other members of the multidisciplinary team and taking accountability for that delegated activity Practice in compliance with your code of professional conduct and within your agreed scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for your decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice Demonstrate a critical understanding of your broadened level of responsibility and autonomy and the limits of your own competence and professional scope of practice including working with complexity, risk and incomplete information Act on professional judgement about when to seek help, demonstrating critical reflection on your own practice, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and openness to change Demonstrate effective communication skills, supporting people in making decisions, planning care or seeking to make positive changes, using frameworks to promote person centred approaches in health and care Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate evidence-based judgements and diagnoses supported by the ACP and other Clinical Specialists. Exercise professional judgement to manage risk appropriately, especially where there may be complex and unpredictable events and supporting teams to do likewise to ensure safety of individuals, families and carers Work collaboratively with an appropriate range of MDT and interprofessional resources, developing, maintaining and evaluating links to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings Act as a clinical role model for developing and delivering care that is responsive to changing requirements, informed by an understanding of local population health needs, agencies and networks Select appropriate and individual treatment pathways, where conflicting needs may be identified (conflicting needs would typically occur where treatments can have both adverse as well as beneficial effects at the same time in a patient). You should assess and address your own learning needs, negotiating a personal development plan that reflects the breadth of ongoing professional development across the four pillars of enhanced clinical practice Act as a resource in educating the wider multidisciplinary team in the safe and appropriate management of patients who present to the service Engage with, appraise and respond to individuals' motivation, development stage and capacity, working collaboratively to support and empower patients to participate in decisions about their care and to maximise their health and well-being Identify further developmental needs for the individual and the wider team and supporting them to address these Support the ACPs and Clinical Specialists and wider team to build capacity and capability through work-based and interprofessional learning, and the application of learning to practice Support the ACPs and Clinical Specialists, engage in research activity in collaboration with trials leads, adhering to good research practice guidance, so that evidenced based strategies are developed and applied to enhance quality, safety, productivity, and value for money Evaluate and audit own and others clinical practice, selecting and applying valid, reliable methods, then acting on the findings Support the ACPs and Clinical Specialists to take a critical approach to identify gaps in the evidence base and its application to practice, alerting appropriate individuals and organisations to these and how they might be addressed in a safe and pragmatic way Actively identify potential need for further research to strengthen evidence for best practice. This may involve acting as an educator, leader, innovator and contributor to research activity and/or seeking out and applying research funding Support the ACPs and Clinical Specialists to disseminate best practice findings and quality improvement projects through appropriate media and forums Facilitate collaborative links between clinical practice and research through proactive engagement networking with academic, clinical and other active researchers Educate and support teams regarding spend of resources such as Community equipment service and support trust value regarding spending money as if it were your own. Pro-actively initiate and develop effective relationships in and between multidisciplinary teams; fostering clarity of roles within teams to encourage productive working Role model the values of the organisation, demonstrating a person-centred approach to service delivery and development Evaluate your own practice and participate in MDT service and team evaluation, demonstrating the impact of enhanced clinical practice on service function and effectiveness, and quality (outcomes of care, experience and safety) Actively engage in peer review to transform your own and others practice, formulating and implementing strategies to act on learning and make improvements Support the ACPs, Clinical Specialists and Team Managers to lead new practice and service redesign solutions in response to feedback, evaluation and need, working across boundaries and broadening your sphere of influence, such as ambulatory care Actively seek feedback and involvement from individuals, families, carers, communities and colleagues in the co-production of service improvements Critically apply enhanced clinical expertise in appropriate ways to provide consultancy across professional and service boundaries, influencing clinical practice to enhance quality, reduce unwanted variation and promote the sharing and adoption of best practice Demonstrate team leadership, resilience and determination, managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable and seeking to build confidence in others Continually develop practice in response to changing population health needs, engaging in horizon scanning for future developments, new treatments and changing social challenges Demonstrate receptiveness to challenge and preparedness to constructively challenge others, escalating concerns that affect individuals, families, carers, communities and colleagues safety and wellbeing when necessary