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Location

Windsor, Berkshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

This post offers an exciting opportunity to work within the award winning AIR service (Adult Integrated Respiratory Service). The post holder will be fully trained and supported during a one year, structured competency ‘upskilling’ by a Specialist Respiratory MDT. Ongoing support will be provided by the Respiratory MDT and two Band 7 Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapists.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment of care needs, development, implementation and evaluation of care for people with respiratory conditions, in both the outpatient and domiciliary setting alongside the delivery of Pulmonary Rehabilitation across East Berkshire.

There will also be opportunity to contribute to the Home Oxygen Service - Assessment and Review (HOSAR), more specifically Ambulatory Oxygen Clinic and home visits to oxygen patients where necessary or as capacity dictates. Close working within the MDT is essential, including assessment of patients for Early Discharge Service in the Acute sector and domiciliary work to review patients at home.

Close working within the MDT is essential, including assessment of patients for Early Discharge Service in the Acute sector and domiciliary work to review patients at home.

The active management of these individuals will support them and their families/ carers to develop self-management strategies with the specific aim of facilitating early supported discharge and preventing avoidable hospital admission.

The post holder will utilise clinical, communication and interpersonal skills to identify the needs of people with respiratory disease and deliver care that recognises social, cultural and spiritual differences.

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.

KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Clinical
• To be professionally 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 non qualified staff to deliver safe and effective care
• If necessary, to be responsible for transferring individual patient’s on-going care to other health care professionals including senior respiratory physiotherapists within the AIR service and others in Primary and Secondary Car
• To maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of care for this group of patients by providing comprehensive assessment; treatment plans and undertaking joint treatment sessions as indicated. Again, training and support will be provided in order to achieve this
• With support, to accept autonomous clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients with respiratory diseases, such as COPD & Bronchiectasis across Berkshire East. This will allow you to provide high quality, responsive, respiratory physiotherapy services in clinics, patient’s homes or other appropriate locations
• Work with the multi-disciplinary team, primary care teams and social services aiming to reduce avoidable hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge from the acute sector
• To be responsible for prioritising and monitoring referrals to the AIR Team
• To assess, plan, co-ordinate and deliver community based Pulmonary Rehabilitation programmes across all geographical locations in East Berks, with support from the senior physiotherapists
• With training and supervision as needed, to contribute to the Ambulatory Oxygen Clinic alongside colleagues from the HOSAR giving specialist physiotherapy advice. To collect data from this service accordingly
• To assess, monitor and treat Oxygen patients as required by the needs of the team. Training will be provided for this. Liaise closely with members of the MDT re ongoing management of these patients
• To gain valid, informed consent from patients using the standards and guidelines provided by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (CSP professional body for Chartered Physiotherapists). To work within the legal framework, seeking appropriate professional assistance when the capacity to consent is in doubt
• To undertake a comprehensive physical and functional assessment of patients, including those with a highly complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills to formulate individual personalised management and treatment plans. This will be done by utilising expert clinical reasoning, a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a personalised programme of care in agreement with the patient and/or carer. Although expected to perform assessments independently in a variety of settings, feedback to the MDT and discussion regarding findings is actively encouraged
• With training and support; to use specialised physiotherapy manual skills, including dexterity, coordination and sensory skills in the assessment and treatment of patients. To continually reassess and re-evaluate patient presentation and adjust care plan and treatment programme accordingly.

This advert closes on Wednesday 6 Mar 2024

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