Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Clinical and Organisational

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your work, including the management of patients in your care, upholding professional standards and code of conduct.
• To carry out Physiotherapy assessments, formulate prognoses, goal planning, develop and implement treatment plans and support discharge planning.
• Be responsible for organising and planning own caseload to meet service and patient needs.
• Carry out clinical and non-clinical tasks as delegated by Senior Physiotherapist, Clinical Lead Physiotherapist or Head of Therapy.
• Aware of and demonstrate knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable adults within clinical practice.
• Ability to assess capacity and work within legal frameworks when working with people who may lack the capacity to consent to treatment.
• Demonstrate understanding of clinical governance and risk management and how this applies to work situations.
• Accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients to treat with effective time management and resource use.
• Use reflection and clinical reasoning skills within your practice to evaluate and progress patient progress.
• Maintain accurate, up to date and comprehensive clinical records in line with legal, professional, contractual and RHN requirements.
• To have an awareness of and work within national and local clinical guidelines.
• Maintain an evidence informed approach to practice.
• Effectively communicate patient status, progress and discharge requirements with external agencies through written forms (ie reports and letters).
• Comply with organisational and departmental policies and procedures.
• Carry out other duties as delegated and maintain a flexible approach to daily working to meet patient and departmental needs.
• Complete and maintain all mandatory training as required by the RHN.
• Work successfully within an IDT to support patient care and rehabilitation.
• Work holistically with patients and their families to provide patient centred care and rehabilitation.
• To be proactive in seek support from senior clinicians in the immediate working team in a timely manner outside of structured supervision pathways.

Management and Personal Development

• Be an active member of the Physiotherapy in-service programme and participate in peer review.
• Be responsible for maintaining own CPD portfolio (as per HCPC and CSP requirements) and actively engage in the annual IPR process at the RHN.
• To ensure your own practice meets the required professional standards of the physiotherapy profession.
• To supervise and delegate to Physiotherapy assistants, therapy assistants and Physiotherapy students as appropriate.
• Maintain patient confidentiality at all times and be aware of information governance responsibilities.
• Maintain and develop current knowledge of evidence informed practice in area of work
• Undertake measurement and evaluation of your own work and current practice through audit, evidence based projects and outcome measures.
• Contribute recommendations for improving service quality and be actively involved in its implementation.
• To demonstrate reliability, flexibility, calmness under pressure and self-motivation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualification in Physiotherapy recognised by the Health Care Professions Council.
• Registered member of the HCPC, membership of CSP or own public liability insurance.
• Post-registration experience of working in Neurological care and/or rehabilitation.

Desirable

• IT skills relevant to job role.

Experience

Essential

• Broad range of pre-registration clinical physiotherapy experience including neurological rehabilitation.
• Demonstrate the ability to carry out neurological assessment and treatment, working closely with the Inter-disciplinary team to establish patient-values and goals.
• Ability to prioritise and manage a caseload, recognising boundaries, and seeking support when appropriate.
• Evidence of working well in a team, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Evidence of participation in continued professional development including demonstrating a keen interest in neurological physiotherapy with an understanding of the need for evidence informed practice and service development.
• Experience in splinting, wheelchair assessment, postural management and spasticity management.
• Awareness and understanding of supporting equality and valuing diversity
• Experience of delegation and supervision of qualified physiotherapy staff, support staff and students.

Desirable

• Experience in splinting, wheelchair assessment, postural management and spasticity management.
• Experience of delegation and supervision of qualified physiotherapy staff, support staff and students.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability

Address

Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability

West Hill

Putney

All UK

SW15 3SW