B6 Paediatric Critical Care/Paediatric Inpatient Ward Physiotherapist
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
To provide a high standard Physiotherapy service across Children's Critical Care and the Children's wards, assessing and treating acutely unwell children. The post holder will be expected to cross cover a mixed caseload of paediatric patients across various specialties within Oxford Children's hospital. The post holder is expected to work closely within the holistic team including Doctors, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Speech & Language Therapists and Play Therapists.
Main duties of the job
* To provide an effective and efficient physiotherapy service to patients, including assessing, treating and delegating the changing workload within the Children's Critical Care unit and across the paediatric wards.
* Perform specialist assessment of patients including those with highly complex presentations, and from this formulates a diagnosis and treatment plan, which is carried out as an autonomous practitioner.
* Maintain a clinical caseload of highly complex patients including acutely ill respiratory patients (with / without ventilatory support) in Childrens Critical Care.
* Provide cover and support to the neonatal unit for acutely ill pre-term/ term infants with or without ventilatory support.
* Partake in the supervision, teaching and appraisal of junior physiotherapists and physiotherapy students.
* Plays an active role in service development within acute paediatrics.
* Assists in the operational management and overall development of the Acute Paediatric team.
* Supports the team leader and undertakes delegated responsibilities.
* Supervises, initiates and participates in evidence-based projects within Paediatrics.
* To be aware of and operate within specific legal and national frameworks in relation to the care of children.
About us
Our friendly and vibrant Children's Therapy and Gait team consist of approximately 80 staff working across 5 professional groups. Together we offer a mix of inpatient and outpatient services to our patients across 4 sites. We are fortunate to work within a large teaching Trust housing many tertiary and regional clinical specialities which encourages staff development, research and quality improvement initiatives.
Children's Therapies sits within the NOTSSCaN division within Oxford University Hospital's NHS Foundation Trust. There is a strong learning ethos, and the team regularly host students across all professional groups in addition to supporting continual professional development of its staff.
We are keen to talk to you if you reflect or aspire to our core values - excellence, compassion, respect, delivery, learning and improvement.
Benefits of working for us include career development and regular supervision, staff recognition and excellence schemes and wellbeing support. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion as we know this leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share.
Person Specification
* Degree in physiotherapy and HCPC Registered
* Broad range of NHS experience including paediatrics and critical care
* Evidence of recent CPD relevant to clinical specialty
* Participation in on-call respiratory physiotherapy rota
* Evidence of good communication with range of MDT
* Interest and understanding of research and audit
* Understanding of clinical governance and implications for physiotherapy
* Supervision of other staff (e.g. therapy assistants and students)
* Evidence of presentation skills
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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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