An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for an experienced Respiratory Care Physiotherapist to join our multi-disciplinary Respiratory Care Team across North West Surrey.
This is a fixed term opportunity with potential to extend. To succeed in this post you will need experience of managing patients with chronic respiratory disease as a Band 7 or Band 6 Physiotherapist in a health setting. You will have experience of working autonomously and within a multidisciplinary team.
The successful candidate must have good communication and organisational skills with a flexible approach to meet the ever-changing needs of the service.
Physiotherapists are an integral part of this multi-disciplinary team. We support unplanned admission avoidance where appropriate, provide post discharge support, community clinics, home visits and are involved in Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Ambulatory Oxygen prescription, a home Non-Invasive ventilation service, research and other innovative schemes.
The team strives to ensure evidence-based practice and to provide an effective high-quality service by setting standards and ensuring they are monitored and maintained.
We are offering an opportunity to build upon your specialist physiotherapy respiratory knowledge and develop further skills in the area of respiratory care.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Respiratory Physiotherapist is to undertake a significant specialist clinical case load, taking a leading role in the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients with long-term conditions. These patients may have complex presentations. To take a lead role in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the physiotherapy service within the Respiratory Care Team on a day-to-day basis.
About us
CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surrey's largest and longest established NHS community services provider, so our 1500+ employees get NHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe High-Cost Allowance of 5%.
Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including the care certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access to the Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and leadership courses and programmes.
We CARE about our staff through our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Our active employee council called The Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues' voices are heard at Board level. CSH is a diverse organisation; if you are a passionate, person-focused individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job you are applying for and if you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact the named individual for this advert, or our recruitment team.
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description for full details
Principal duties to include:
1. To communicate effectively with all disciplines involved in a patient's care both those within the organisation and those outside to ensure effective multidisciplinary working.
2. To advise other disciplines both internally and externally to ensure a multidisciplinary approach to care.
3. To be able to communicate complex and sensitive information to patients, carers and other staff including imparting unwelcome news relating to their rehabilitation potential.
4. To be able to communicate highly complex information sensitively to patients in order to gain cooperation for treatment and valid consent.
5. To use persuading and influencing skills to encourage patients to self-manage their conditions.
6. To ensure timely and effective communication with the superintendent physiotherapist and manager on all professional matters.
7. To attend relevant meetings and case conferences as appropriate in order to ensure appropriate management and effective and timely discharge of patients and coordination of care and care planning.
8. To attend and chair meetings and actively participate ensuring understanding of information imparted.
9. To appreciate cultural differences and take these into account when agreeing treatment plans with patients.
10. To initiate and maintain contacts with local and national clinical interest groups appropriate to the clinical field and to share and disseminate knowledge with colleagues working within the directorate.
11. To assess patients' understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid consent and have the capacity to work within the legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent.
12. To use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients in order to progress rehabilitation and treatment programmes. This may include patients who will have difficulties in understanding or communicating, e.g. patients who may be deaf, blind, or be unable to accept diagnosis or presenting condition.
13. To frequently manage highly stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner.
Person Specification
Skills
* Post registration experience across a variety of clinical areas to include musculoskeletal and respiratory patients.
* Experience of working at band 6 level in rehabilitation of patients with long term conditions.
* Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and contributing to team decisions.
* Experience and understanding of treatment approaches.
* Experience of use of audit and its use to improve interventions/service.
* Experience of managing own and team caseload and prioritising.
* Experience of delegating to junior staff.
* Experience of teaching physiotherapists, therapy assistants and other members of the team.
* Experience of assessing clinical ability of staff and support personal development.
* Involvement in appraisal system.
* Demonstrate knowledge of clinical governance agenda.
* Current UK driving licence and use of car.
Experience
* Ability to carry out highly advanced range of assessments and procedures in order to make a clinical diagnosis, treatment and management plan.
* Use and understanding of a range of treatment approaches.
* Evidence of highly specialised skills for clinical practice based on evidence.
* Advanced clinical reasoning skills in deciding certain interventions.
* Ability to identify and set clinical goals with patient/carer.
* Knowledge of clinical governance agenda.
* Knowledge of relevant clinical guidelines and NHS directives.
* Ability to lead on changes in practices.
* Fluent in spoken and written English.
* Understanding on how to maintain a safe environment and facilitate others to do so.
* Ability to identify own training needs.
* Ability to solve complex problems.
* Ability to work positively in new and changing environment.
* Experience of working within the community.
Qualifications
* Diploma/degree leading to inclusion on health Professions Council Physiotherapy register.
* Evidence of relevant post registration training.
* Appropriate training at MSc level or equivalent experiential development.
* Evidence of ongoing development.
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.
£48,270 to £54,931 a year inclusive of 5% High Cost Area allowance per annum pro rata.
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
1 year
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
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