Specialist Physiotherapist

Job summary

In-Patient Adult Orthopaedic Physiotherapist

Band 6 - Part time hours per week

This is an exciting opportunity to join our award winning, inpatient Orthopaedic team at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.

Expected interview date;To be confirmed

**PLEASE BE AWARE THIS VACANCY MAY CLOSE EARLY IF SUFFICIENT APPLICATIONS ARE RECEIVED**

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic and forward thinking physiotherapist, with the ability to work with a high degree of professional autonomy.

The inpatient team is a friendly, enthusiastic and hard working team winning the Chief Allied Health Professions Officer's, AHP Quality Improvement Award 2019, for our accelerated rehabilitation protocol for patients undergoing uni-compartmental knee replacements.

We have a world-class reputation for teaching and research and within the wider physiotherapy department, you will benefit from access to a large team of specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapists and clinical specialists.

This position offers an excellent opportunity to gain experience working in specialties such as; limb reconstruction, sarcoma, rheumatology, spinal surgery and complex elective surgery.

You will be supported to develop both clinically and managerially within Orthopaedics and should be able to demonstrate an advanced level of physiotherapy skills and expertise specific to this speciality.

The successful candidate will be required to participate in weekend and orthopaedic on-call rotas.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnoses in a wide range of conditions including those with a complex presentation, with occasional guidance from specialist physiotherapists

To carry out assessment, management and treatment as an autonomous practitioner to patients utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options. (This includes enhanced recovery patients as well as those with diverse, complex presentations / multi pathologies, requiring the use of moderate physical effort for several periods during a shift).

To demonstrate physical ability to carry out physiotherapy assessment and interventions including manual therapy techniques and therapeutic handling

To be able to manage potentially stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner.

To formulate accurate prognoses and develop specialist programmes of care and discharge plans, using clinical reasoning skills based on sound knowledge of evidence based practice.

To evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter / progress the treatment programmes as required.

To assess a patients capacity to understand and gain valid informed consent for treatment. To work within the legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to consent or refuse treatment.

To maintain accurate written records, in line with Professional Standards.

To provide comprehensive physiotherapy progress reports and transfer letters as required.

To identify and complete timely out-patient or community physiotherapy referrals for your patients to ensure continuation in their care.

To ensure high standards of care are maintained and developed.

To co-operate with other physiotherapists in the organisation of general workload and relieve other therapists when required.

To sensitively deal with stressful and emotional situations in an empathetic manner and to manage patients who may demonstrate aggressive behaviour.

To be able to motivate and persuade others through effective communication using verbal and nonverbal skills and written information when needed.

Responsibilities:

To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory sensory skills for assessment and manual treatment of patients.

To represent physiotherapy and / or individual patients at multidisciplinary team meetings, ward rounds, case conferences, clinics and board round meetings as required to ensure delivery of co-ordinated care. This will include discussion of patient care / discharge planning.

To encourage health promotion by example and advise individual patients.

To maintain professional standards and codes of conduct.

To have the physical capacity to carry out physiotherapy assessment and interventions including therapeutic handling.

To demonstrate the ability to communicate, educate and advise about complex and sensitive information to patients, carers and other staff, where there may be barriers to communication Non-English speakers, those with communication disorders, impaired sight or hearing.

To ensure that effective communication and reporting takes place at all times, with appropriate hand over to and from other physiotherapists and the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).

To ensure accurate treatment records are maintained according to CSP standards and Trust policies.

To participate in the Physiotherapy evening on-call, weekend working and late shift rotas.

Management:

To flexibly plan and organise own time, patient caseload, meetings, training and adjust plans as required according to staffing levels.

To be able to respond to changes in work patterns and frequent interruptions.

To manage clinical risk within own caseload at all times.

To assist in the planning of juniors, students and assistants timetables and deputise for the team leader in organisational duties as required.

To ensure that performance data is recorded and reported within the service timescales

To assist in the maintenance and monitoring of all equipment used by In-patient team staff.

To be responsible for competent use and maintenance reporting of all equipment, including but not limited to gym equipment, CPM, hoists, saturation monitors and patient braces/appliances, and to ensure that junior staff/students and assistants attain competency prior to use.

To be responsible for the operational management of the designated team in the absence of the team leader or as required

Education:

To provide supervision, instruction, support and appraisal for more junior physiotherapists, assistants and students as required including participation in the individual appraisal scheme of the Physiotherapy Service as allocated by the Team Leader.

To contribute to the education of patients, families, carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team as appropriate.

To be responsible for and actively record own professional development and maintain a CPD portfolio to reflect this.

To be pro-active with regard to learning from other physiotherapy staff within the department, and other MDT staff in the Trust.

To maintain and develop current knowledge of evidence based practice in musculoskeletal / orthopaedics developing specialist knowledge of particular conditions and patient types.

To keep abreast of new developments and evidenced based practice in each clinical area by use of relevant reading, attendance at in-service training, external courses and database searches.

To ensure good working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor quality as appropriate.

To undertake an evidence-based service improvement or audit project within each clinical area including presentation of the project to the wider physiotherapy team/department.

To attend and actively participate in the in-service training programme and other outside courses / lectures where relevant.

To assist in organising and actively facilitate the roll out of external courses as appropriate.

General:

To carry out assessments and treatments, with moderate physical effort on a daily basis.

To comply with the Trusts Manual Handling Policy and local therapeutic handling guidelines.

To work in an environment where the work patterns may be disrupted by frequent demands from patients, clinical staff, students and administrative support staff.

To deal sensitively with distressing or emotional circumstances regarding patient care such as realistic expectations of rehabilitation outcome.

To support juniors and less experienced members of staff when indicated in the management of challenging patients.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Current HCPC registration Broad junior experience gained working in acute NHS environment including Orthopaedics, Neurology, musculoskeletal out-patients and respiratory Fit to work weekends, extend day and on-call duties Previous experience as a clinical educator for students and mentorship of less experienced staff

Desirable

Previous work at a senior band 6 level Attendance at relevant postgraduate courses or conferences CSP membership or membership of relevant specialist interest group Experience of audit and/or service development

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