Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
* provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
* nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
* regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
* deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone to join our therapy team working with patients and their families in the in patient unit and the day hospice.
Main duties of the job
1. To support the Therapy staff to provide high quality holistic person-centred care to palliative care patients to maximise their quality of life and sense of wellbeing.
2. To assist in supporting patients’ individual goals (consistent with their limitations, desires and life plans) and in the maintenance / adaptation of function through the palliative journey.
3. To ensure that therapy goals, strategies and procedures are implemented and reinforced throughout the 24-hour period.
4. To ensure a seamless service in working flexibly and collaboratively; and communicating effectively with the Therapy team and wider teams.
5. To support the Therapy team with clerical and administrative assistance; e.g. maintaining equipment stocks, ordering supplies and managing patient orders.
6. To be a point of contact for relatives and carers, ensuring continuity of care within the Therapy and wider teams.
7. The post will include sensitively exchanging information with patients and relatives.
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact Pam.Daley@nhs.net (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Patient-related duties
1. Daily morning participation on the In-patient Unit (IPU) to deliver individual functional activities and mobility practice, and to include all appropriate patients.
2. To report status and variances in treatment and condition of identified IPU patients to the appropriate Therapist at the earliest opportunity, and to progress treatment as advised by the Therapist.
3. To be an advocate and enabler for the Therapy team in the IPU, supporting therapy and quality of life goals for patients.
4. To promote and role-model an approach based on patient-focused goals, empowerment, enablement & self-management to MDT colleagues.
5. Where appropriate, and as identified by the Therapy team, outreach into the community to assist therapy goals.
2. Communication
1. To daily collate Therapy team messages – e.g. written/ email.
2. To daily take a brief patient update / handover from the Nurse-in-Charge on IPU at Florence Nightingale Hospice and to feed back/ liaise with the Therapy team.
3. To maintain excellent communication with Therapy colleagues; working collaboratively, individually or as part of the wider hospice team.
4. To be responsible for collecting, collating, evaluating and reporting information, and maintaining accurate patient records in all formats, including written and electronic patient information systems in a timely manner.
5. To communicate and exchange information sensitively with patients and relatives using tact, reassurance and persuasion. This will include circumstances where communication difficulties exist, as well as in situations that may be difficult and emotionally distressing due to patients & families living with life-limiting illnesses, and dealing with death, dying & bereavement.
6. To be able to communicate with people from a wide cultural background. Responsible to ensure that the service users’ individual rights and choices are actively promoted and supported, and their beliefs and preferences appropriately acknowledged.
3. Admin
1. To support the Therapy Team by completing administrative tasks as required, such as gathering referrals and recording monthly activity data.
2. To be responsible for issuing basic functional / mobility equipment.
3. To be responsible for reviewing, ordering and fitting equipment and to work with patients and their carers / family to demonstrate its safe use, either in Florence Nightingale Hospice or in the patient’s home.
4. To be responsible for maintaining equipment stock levels in the buffer store at Florence Nightingale Hospice, re-ordering as required.
5. To ensure that equipment and walking aids on the IPU are kept clean to prevent the spread of infection.
6. To ensure that equipment and walking aids on the IPU are safe and that faults are either dealt with or reported to registered practitioners.
4. Physical effort
1. To carry out tasks requiring physical effort throughout the day, including dressing and undressing patients, transferring patients, bed positioning, reseating, gait training, and moving equipment.
2. Daily exposure to bodily fluids and waste products.
3. Daily exposure to communicable diseases and the need to take infection control precautions.
5. General
1. Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and any other duties commensurate with the grade and in line with the requirement of the post.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications and Training
* Good Literacy and numeracy skills
* Have the ability to undertake the training to acquire the skills appropriate for the development in the post
Experience
* Able to accept and undertake responsibility for designated tasks
* Proven experience of working in a team
* Experience of working in a relevant setting
* Experience within a customer care (Face to face) setting
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
* Clear, concise verbal and written communication
* Demonstrate good organisational skills
* Demonstrate insight into the importance of maintaining a safe working environment
* Able to work within a team setting
* Able to complete tasks set, follow instructions and work independently
* Flexible and adaptable approach to work
* Able to know own limitations and seek advice
* Good ability to listen
* Awareness of the needs of palliative patients
* IT Skills
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
* Valid and current full UK driving licence and car to enable travel between sites and to community visits.
* Physically able to perform tasks whilst kneeling, bending and able to handle patients and equipment safely.
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
If you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.
Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Sue Eddy Job title: Specialist Physiotherapist Email address: sue.eddy1@nhs.net Telephone number: 01296332600 Additional information: Sharon McTaggart - Occupational Therapist s.mctaggart@nhs.net
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