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Location
Gillingham, Kent | United Kingdom
Job description
To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management, and support more junior staff to do likewise, taking over the care of more complex patents where appropriate. To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts from a wide range of sources to form accurate diagnosis and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive discharge plans. To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range or treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care. To provide the specialist therapy input to any outpatient and follow up clinics as required. To ensure team members select and refer patients appropriately to other Healthcare Professionals and Therapy services, ensuring planned continuity of care. To assess patients for standard and bespoke aids and appliances, request their provision and teach patients/, carers and more junior staff in their safe application and use. To participate in therapy and multi-professional working parties developing policy and service changes within specialist area which will impact on service users. To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of therapy, and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care. To provide specialist advice to therapy colleagues working within other clinical areas regarding specialist area. To provide specialist advice, teaching and training to other members of the MDT regarding the therapy management of patients in specialist area: this may involve challenging or requesting changes to treatment plans. To train, supervise and performance manage less senior staff, assistants and therapy students. This will include the use of formal appraisal documentation. To be a source of clinical expertise and advice for Junior and less senior Therapists in your team and to assess needs for, plan and contribute to the delivery of an in-service training programme for your team To communicate in a highly skilled and effective manner with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition. This regularly includes people with communication/ comprehension difficulties and barriers to understanding, and can involve the delivery of difficult prognoses /outcomes of treatment. To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to and support team members to, work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment. To undertake individual patient and generic clinical risk assessments, and ensure that the highest standards of patient risk assessment are met within your team The job holder must comply with the Medway NHS Foundation Trust Infection Prevention and Control policies at all times and adhere to the Clinical Work Wear policy. In particular hand hygiene must be performed before and after contact with patients and their environment. Mandatory training must also be completed and up to date To be an active member of the hospital wide Physiotherapy emergency on-call service, attending competency training session and maintaining an on-call competency file To maintain a high level of specialist knowledge, maintaining own clinical professional development (CPD) by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments, and incorporate them as necessary into your work. To be an active member of the Therapy service training programme by the attendance and delivering presentations and training sessions at staff meetings, tutorials, training sessions in house and by attending external courses, participating in peer review, working with Clinical interest groups and practising reflective practice. To communicate effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing and therapy colleagues, demonstrating an understanding of their roles, to ensure delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service. This will include multi-disciplinary team meetings, ward rounds, discharge planning and attending / initiating case conferences. To participate in the staff appraisal scheme as both appraisee and apprasier for junior and less senior therapists and assistants. To initiate and undertake the measurement and evaluation of your own and your teams work and current practices through the use of Evidence Based Practice projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or with clinical specialist or manager. Make recommendations for change to service delivery, protocols etc. in conjunction with Clinical and Operational Leads and Head of Therapy. To establish protocol for, and monitor the appropriate delegation of support work to assistants in your team by the qualified members of staff. To apply a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management to work situation and manage clinical Risk within your team in conjunction with Clinical and Operational Leads and Head of Therapy. To develop, update, monitor and audit therapy policies and protocols for clinical area, ensuring they are implemented by the team, and communicating with others where they impact on the wider therapy team.
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Salary
£43.74k - £50.06k per annum
