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Specialist Stroke Physiotherapist - Knowsley Community Stroke Team
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 12 Chwefror 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £46,148.00 i £52,809.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 23 Chwefror 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Liverpool, L14 3PE |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9410-25-0031 |
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CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES To be accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure that a high standard of clinical care is maintained for patients. To form accurate diagnosis and prognoses in highly complex conditions, to recommend and implement the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive discharge plans. To make appropriate recommendation of intervention outside the scope of the team. To undertake the comprehensive holistic assessment of patients using investigative and analytical skills. To formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using a higher level of clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a highly specialised programme of care. To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities, use of time and staffing levels. To provide efficient physiotherapy input in the Community setting in order to: Enable patients to return to or remain in their chosen/ownenvironment. Ensure rapid assessment and acceptance of patients into the community stroke team, identifying the most appropriate element of the service. To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination, palpatory and other senses for assessment and manual treatment of patients. To maintain own clinical professional development. To provide specialist advice to all stroke team, GPs, Consultants and other healthcare professionals involved in patient care. To make autonomous decisions on patient care based on current evidence and best practice, ensuring the rapid assessment and acceptance of patients into the community stroke team. To monitor the service including waiting times, audit and evaluation. To ensure a high standard of patient care is provided, ensuring the principles of evidence based practice. Including the development, implementation and review of clinical standards, clinical pathways and policies relevant to patient care. To train, supervise and manage staff performance within the MDT where appropriate and ensure the clinical competence of staff is maintained. To identify opportunities to extend the scope of practice. To further develop links with primary, secondary and tertiary care. To provide professional leadership and management to less experienced community stroke team members. To work collaboratively and communicate effectively with team members. This will include attendance at team meetings, MDT meeting and steering group/ focus groups and working parties. To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition. To communicate highly sensitive information effectively with all patient groups/carers where there may be difficulties in accepting or understanding information. To communicate diagnoses, complex information and planned interventions with patients/ relatives. To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment. To maintain tact and diplomacy and use highly developed communication skills. To decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands, and ensure that these remain in accordance with those of the team. To be responsible for ensuring the effective selection and use of all treatment resources available within clinical area. To be responsible for equipment used in carrying out Physiotherapy duties, and to adhere to Service policy, including competence to use equipment and to ensure the safe use of equipment by others through teaching, training and supervision of practice. To provide teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals to promote understanding of the aims of Physiotherapy and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care. To document clinical records using electronic patient records system (EMIS) To work within Trust clinical guidelines, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and HPC guidelines and to have a good working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and others quality of practice as appropriate. To be responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient treatment records in line with CSP and organisational record keeping standards, including preparation of reports, discharge summaries to consultants and GPs. MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY To provide professional leadership to other team members. To represent the Trust externally (locally, regionally and nationally and internationally). To ensure that the Service will in reach to all local hospitals effectively and develop communication links and pathways in and out of secondary care for stroke patients. To ensure the team delivers effective, appropriate and timely rehabilitation in patients own home. To monitor and record outcome data. To regularly participate in working parties locally and nationally, developing policy changes within speciality which will impact on all service users. To assist the Team Lead and Service Manager in developing and implementing strategic and operational direction. EDUCATION AND TRAINING To organise and lead training programmes as required. To provide highly specialist advice, teaching and training to other members of the team and to colleagues working within other clinical areas/geographical areas regarding the management of patients. To supervise and undertake responsibility for monitoring the work of assistants. To contribute to the dissemination of good practice across professional and organisational boundaries, including the delivery of external training/ lectures. To contribute to the training of other professionals to ensure provision of good patient care. To attend courses as directed by an individual personal development plan and the needs of the service, and to disseminate this information to colleagues to support best practice. To assist in the support of students. To provide mentoring to less experienced members of the stroke team. To assist with the identification of training needs within the team. PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES To comply with relevant Professional Body standards and rules of professional conduct. To participate in the staff appraisal scheme and personal development plan (PDP) as both appraiser and appraisee. To participate in the supervision scheme as supervisor and supervisee. To ensure that policy and service development changes are implemented. To ensure that staff adhere to Health & Safety guidelines and maintain safe environments and working practices. To demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management and the application to clinical practice. To undertake the measurement and evaluation of your work and current practices through the use of evidence-based practice projects, audit and outcome measures and making recommendations for change and to implement change. To comply with the organisational and departmental policies and procedures and to be involved in the reviewing and updating as appropriate. To assist co-ordinating and supporting research activity within the team. To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up to date documentation. To co-ordinate the collection of appropriate data and statistics for the use in the review of service delivery. To use appropriate IT skills for communication. To maintain own clinical professional development (CPD) and levels of competence. To assist and actively participate in audit and research within the specialist area and to be responsible for the dissemination and implementation of good practice, ensuring that treatment offered to patients is based on the best clinical evidence. To undertake evaluation and performance management of your work and current practices through the use of evidence-based practice projects, audit, research and the use of outcome measures and benchmarking. To develop, implement and review clinical pathways ensuring that this is based on current evidence and research. To ensure that any equipment, furniture or building that is in need of repair is reported to the appropriate authority through the correct channel. To comply with the Data Protection Act to ensure that a high level of patient confidentiality is maintained at all times. To be responsible for managing complex projects and systems change within the specialist area To co-ordinate and produce written reports, data and statistical information as required. To assist and contribute to the development of evidence based guidelines and the implementation of national guidelines into the specialist area. To evaluate, make recommendations for change and provide evidence of service improvements via project work, audit and research.