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.
· 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.
· 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.
· To ensure that therapy goals, strategies and procedures are implemented and reinforced throughout the 24hour period.
· To ensure a seamless service in working flexibly and collaboratively; and communicating effectively with the Therapy team and wider teams.
· To support the Therapy team with clerical and administrative assistance; e.g. maintaining equipment stocks, ordering supplies and managing patient orders.
· To be a point of contact for relatives and carers, ensuring continuity of care within the Therapy and wider teams.
· The post will include sensitively exchanging information with patients and relatives.
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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.
1. Patient-related duties
1.1 Daily morning participation on the In-patient Unit (IPU) to deliver individual functional activities and mobility practice, and to include all appropriate patients.
1.2 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.
1.3 To be an advocate and enabler for the Therapy team in the IPU, supporting therapy and quality of life goals for patients.
1.4 To promote and role-model an approach based on patient-focused goals, empowerment, enablement & self-management to MDT colleagues
1.5 Where appropriate, and as identified by the Therapy team, outreach into the community to assist therapy goals.
2. Communication
2.1 To daily collate Therapy team messages – e.g. written/ email.
2.2 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.
2.3 To maintain excellent communication with Therapy colleagues; working collaboratively, individually or as part of the wider hospice team.
2.4 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.
2.5 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.
2.6 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
3.1 To support the Therapy Team by completing administrative tasks as required, such as gathering referrals and recording monthly activity data.
4. Equipment duties
4.1 To be responsible for issuing basic functional / mobility equipment.
4.2 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.
4.3 To be responsible for maintaining equipment stock levels in the buffer store at Florence Nightingale Hospice, re-ordering as required.
4.4 To ensure that equipment and walking aids on the IPU are kept clean to prevent the spread of infection.
4.5 To ensure that equipment and walking aids on the IPU are safe and that faults are either dealt with or reported to registered practitioners.
5. Physical effort
5.1 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.
5.2 Daily exposure to bodily fluids and waste products.
5.3 Daily exposure to communicable diseases and the need to take infection control precautions.
6. Independent Working
6.1 To be able to prioritise, organise, coordinate and deliver daily workload without direct supervision.
6.2 To be able to assess and recognise risk and report back to relevant staff.
6.3 To be able to work autonomously, as agreed by a registered practitioner, and to be responsible and accountable within their scope of practice.
7. General
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.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Mar 2025