Job summary
Surrey Downs Health & Care
We are looking for dynamic individuals who will play a key role in driving forward our Community Therapy services in Surrey Downs. You will have excellent organisational and time management skills and be passionate about delivering holistic care that has the patient at its centre. You will relish developing new ways of working to improve quality and develop a "one team" culture. This is a great opportunity for a proactive individual keen to take the next step in their career, joining an exciting forward thinking team.
You must have broad clinical experience including care of the elderly and enjoy the challenges of providing rehabilitation to people in their own homes. You will be supported by the Clinical Lead and experienced Band 7 Physiotherapists. As part of your role, you will be responsible for training and supervising Band 5 Physiotherapists, Rehabilitation Assistants, Students, and you will play part in developing the Physiotherapy service within the team. You will also be committed to the 'Fair Share' model of development of student placements within the team.
Leatherhead PCN team will be undergoing transformation as part of SDHC business plan . As part of this transformation, successful applicants may be required to work from a different base in the future and will be part of the consultation process for this.
Main duties of the job
We are in an exciting phase of development and are looking to expand our current services to ensure the provision of both rapid response and rehabilitation offering multidisciplinary assessments to people in their own homes (including care homes). Rehabilitation is offered to those who are at risk of hospital admission or recovering from illness/ post hospital admission across the place of Surrey Downs. We are a team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and rehabilitation assistants working alongside the wider community and locality teams.
The service provides joined up, co-ordinated care to local citizens with health and social care needs and aims to support them to live as independently as possible by offering rapid multidisciplinary assessment and support at times of crisis. The team offers a rapid response assessment within 24 hours or 1 week of referral to mitigate the risk of a hospital admission, often providing essential moving and handling equipment and liaising with adult social care teams around additional support requirements as well as short term rehabilitation.
About us
Surrey Downs Health and Care (SDHC) deliver care closer to people's own communities through our Primary Care Networks and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centric care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:
- The three GP federations representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
- CSH Surrey
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Surrey Council County
We collectively aspire to be an exemplar of how to deliver the highest quality and best value care in a complex health and care environment. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, ambitious and highly motivated individual to join Surrey Downs Health & Care Partnership.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- To perform advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of the patient with complex presentations using advanced clinical reasoning skills to create targeted treatment plans using SMART goals specific to the patients condition.
- To formulate and deliver an individual or group physiotherapy treatment programme In line with best practice guidelines.
- To help co-ordinate and ensure effective delivery of therapy services liaising and co-operating with colleagues across other PCNs/Adult social care teams to provide equitable services.
- To evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes as required and to advise and support more junior colleagues to this effect. To handover treatment plans to the rehabilitation assistant to support with the patient centred goals.
- Willingness and enthusiasm to work toward cross-disciplinary competencies
- To have an awareness of local community services and be able to refer to these appropriately and in a timely manner.
- To understand and manage clinical risk within own patient caseload and within the service and advise more junior staff, seeking guidance from Band 7s/Clinical Lead as required.
- Work within Epsom and St Helier policies and CSP clinical guidelines and participate on CPD to maintain professional registration. Monitor own and others quality of practice as appropriate.
- To keep accurate and complete records of work undertaken in line with CSP, Community Therapy Team, Surrey Downs Health and Care standards. Maintaining confidentiality and information governance standards at all times.
- To be able to assess and identify those who lack capacity to consent to treatment and be able to work with them within a legal framework.
- To teach, assess and contribute to the performance assessment of Band 5s and Rehabilitation Assistants.
- To make a significant contribution to the development of departmental policies and procedures on clinical care by attending appropriate meetings and recommending changes to clinical care or service provision.
Professional
- To maintain own clinical professional development (CPD) and incorporate them as necessary into your working practice.
- To actively participate in your Performance Development Plan and review process.
- To be an active member of the in-service training programme by attending and delivering at training sessions.
- To train, supervise and performance manage more junior staff and students, including formal appraisals.
- To be responsible for teaching students, physiotherapists and rehabilitation assistants on physiotherapeutic skills.
- To undertake organisational and local audit. Undertake research projects as appropriate
- Maintain and develop evidence based practice in Intermediate Care / Frailty.
- To demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management within the work situation.
- To be professionally and legally responsible for all aspects of professional activities, working within the codes of practise, professional guidelines and Surrey Downs Health and Care policies and procedures.
Organisational
- To be responsible for the safe use of equipment used in carrying out physiotherapy duties and to adhere to departmental policies and guidelines to ensure safe use of equipment by the team. To report defects as per policy.
- To share responsibility for departmental tidiness, maintenance and administration.
- Utilise IT systems to improve the efficiency of the service.
- To supervise and co-ordinate junior staff and rehab assistants ensuring their practice as well as your own meet the required professional standards.
General Responsibilities
- To attend all statutory and mandatory training in line with Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust Policy.
- To maintain complete confidentiality of all patient and staff information known or acquired during the course of work. To maintain Information Governance standards at all times.
- To adhere to all trust policies and procedures of Epsom and St. Helier NHS Trust.
- To undertake any duties or responsibilities commensurate with the grade as requested by Clinical Lead or Specialist Services Manager.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or diploma in Physiotherapy
- Degree or diploma in Physiotherapy
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
- Relevant post qualification experience with a range of client groups.
- Appreciation of constraints to working in the community.
- Knowledge of relevant health, safety and risk issues.
Desirable
- Post qualification experience working in the community
- Proficient with basic Excel and Word
Experience
Essential
- Experience of MDT working
- Experience of clinical teaching within the MDT
- Experience in supervising and working with juniors/assistants/ students
- Experienced manual handling skills
Desirable
- Experience in clinical audit, research/ literature reviews
- Experience in using an electronic notes recording system (i.e., EMIS and Systm1)
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Team worker
- Customer Focused
- Good Communicator
Abilities
Essential
- Able to get to all sites required for the post and to be flexible to meet the needs of the role
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Leatherhead Community Hospital
Poplar Road
Leatherhead
KT22 8SD