Community Health Improvement Coordinator
Closed for applications on: 11-Mar-2024 09:04
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 11-Mar-2024 09:04
Key details
Location
- Site
- St Thomas' Hospital
- Address
- Westminster Bridge Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £30,279 - £33,116 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 4)
Specialty
- Main area
- Administration
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
To provide a high standard practitioner service at outpatient and community specialist clinics/groups for those living with obesity.
To use evidence-based principles/current best practice of exercise, nutrition and behaviour change techniques to deliver lifestyle change programmes within the Physiotherapy and Nutrition and Dietetics Departments.
To actively particpate in community engagement, organising and attending promotional events within the local borough. To forge strong relations and partnerships with community organisations and the volunatary sector.
This post is a static role within the healthy living physiotherapy team across sites of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust as well as community sites in Lambeth.
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Please refer to the job description for more details:
- To develop and sustain partnerships with statutory, public, private and community voluntary sectors
- To develop and implement engaging service promotion initiatives
- To demonstrate physical ability to carry out physiotherapy interventions including leading exercise classes
- To be able to cope with occasional, potentially stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner
- To carry out assessment of patients as an autonomous practitioner, and to use clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of evidence-based practice to formulate appropriate care plan utilising a range of treatment skills and options
- To continually reassess patients in order to progress treatments and management effectively in order to meet patient goals
- To use own clinical judgement and knowledge in regards to progressing and/or modifying treatment programmes within agreed clinical protocols and
- To work unsupervised by a physiotherapist for majority of the time
Working for our organisation
Department Information
The Physiotherapy and the Nutrition & Dietetics Departments are within the Therapies & Rehabilitation and the Medical Specialties Clinical Directorates, respectively. The combined departments have over 400 staff and provide services across the Trust. The Healthy Living service is managed within both departments and this post specifically within the Physiotherapy Rehabilitation Service and its Clinical Lead Physiotherapist. The service provides nutritional and physiotherapy support to outpatients living with overweight and obesity and to staff throughout the department who manage the weight management services.
Organisational Values:
Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it. It is important that you understand and reflect these values throughout your employment with the Trust.
The post holder will:
- Put patients first
- Take pride in what they do
- Respect others
- Strive to be the best
- Act with integrity
Our values and behaviours framework| describes what it means for every one of us in the Trust to put our values into action.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description for more details:
- To develop and sustain partnerships with statutory, public, private and community voluntary sectors
- To develop and implement engaging service promotion initiatives
- To demonstrate physical ability to carry out physiotherapy interventions including leading exercise classes
- To be able to cope with occasional, potentially stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner
- To carry out assessment of patients as an autonomous practitioner, and to use clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of evidence-based practice to formulate appropriate care plan utilising a range of treatment skills and options
- To continually reassess patients in order to progress treatments and management effectively in order to meet patient goals
- To use own clinical judgement and knowledge in regards to progressing and/or modifying treatment programmes within agreed clinical protocols and
- To work unsupervised by a physiotherapist for majority of the time
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
ualifications/ Education
Essential criteria
- Established experience in the health, sports and/or fitness industry
- Individual with significant experience in relevant work environment who can demonstrate competence to a standard that would gain the NVQ Level 4 through the Accreditation of Prior Experience and learning may also be considered
Desirable criteria
- Sports and Fitness Diploma/Degree
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with patients from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities
- Experience of working with and sustaining partnerships with statutory, public, private and community voluntary sectors
- Experience of exercise and education delivery to groups of participants
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience with data inputting
- Experience of treating patients within a weight loss environment
Skills/Knowledge/ Ability
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate knowledge of clinical protocols for relevant clinical work and for working in a gym/group environment.
- Ability to develop and implement engaging service promotion initiatives
- Ability to communicate clinical, treatment techniques and management or routine information and advice to patients in an understandable and effective manner
- Understand of determinants of health and health inequalities
Desirable criteria
- Good awareness of clinical governance issues related to the physiotherapy environment.
- Knowledge of diet and nutrition
Physical Requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to carry out moderate to vigorous physical effort throughout the working day
- Physically fit and able to comply with Trust Manual Handling Guidelines
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jade Sampford
- Job title
- Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist
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