The Urgent community response team at CSH are looking for an experienced Physiotherapist to join their busy team! This will be an exciting opportunity to demonstrate leadership skills and contribute to service development and monitoring of standards of practice, and developing multidisciplinary management of patients.
Main duties of the job
You will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary Urgent Community Response (UCR) team. Undertaking assessments, clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients including telephone triage, multi-factorial falls assessments, and patients who may require crisis management and/or rehabilitation interventions to prevent acute hospital admissions and to support complex hospital discharges. These patients often have complex presentations.
Job responsibilities
To communicate effectively with all disciplines involved in a patient's care, both those from within the organisation and those outside, to ensure effective multidisciplinary working. This will include discussion of patient care, patient progress, and involvement in discharge planning. To be able to communicate complex and sensitive information to patients, carers, and other staff including imparting unwelcome news relating to their rehabilitation potential and gaining consent for treatment. To communicate any changes in care plan or treatment approach to other relevant members of the UCR team and the UCR Operational Lead as necessary. To ensure timely and effective communication with the Physiotherapy Team Lead and other multidisciplinary Team Leads on all professional matters. To maintain accurate documentation in line with the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy standards and CSH Surrey standards and policies. To attend staff meetings and actively participate ensuring understanding of information imparted. Assess patients' understanding of proposed intervention. Gain valid consent and work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to assessment and/or intervention. To use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication skills to communicate effectively with patients in order to progress rehabilitation and treatment programmes. This may include patients who have difficulties in understanding or communicating e.g. patients who may be deaf, blind, have cognitive and/or behavioural problems, or who are unable to accept their diagnosis or presenting condition. To appreciate cultural differences and take these into account when agreeing treatment plans with patients. To manage patients who may be occasionally aggressive or confused. To be able to manage potentially stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner.
Person Specification
Experience
* Minimum of 2 years post qualification & NHS Experience
* Knowledge of a wide range of client groups including any of the following: community, rehabilitation, hospital, neurology, elderly, oncology and orthopaedics
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy
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.
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