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About
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in the UK, with a national and international reputation for the excellence of its services and its role in teaching and research.
Find out more about the Trust on their web-site at www.ouh.nhs.uk
Watch how OUH goes about delivering compassionate excellence on the ouhnhs YouTube channel
Band 6 Physiotherapy Specialist Inpatients
Closed for applications on: 12-Jul-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 12-Jul-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
- Address
- Windmill Road
- Town
- Oxford
- Postcode
- OX3 7LD
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Some evening, weekend and on-call working required.)
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
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.
The Trust comprises of 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 the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
In-Patient Adult Orthopaedic Physiotherapist
Band 6 - Full time 37.5 hours per week
This is an exciting opportunity to join our award winning, inpatient Orthopaedic team at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. **PLEASE BE AWARE THIS VACANCY MAY CLOSE EARLY IF SUFFICIENT APPLICATIONS ARE RECEIVED** |
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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. The inpatient team also operate a late shift working pattern which involves working 12-8pm one day a week. |
Working for our organisation
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 here www.ouh.nhs.uk
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 the OUH YouTube channel.
Detailed job description and main 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 non–verbal 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 e.g. 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.
COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment , we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination.
Nursing and Midwifery: For candidates applying from outside the UK: Please be advised that we work in partnership with Envertiz who will be managing your recruitment therefore by applying you are consenting to us passing your contact details and application to Envertiz so they can manage your recruitment and on-boarding. If you do not consent to this, please do not apply.
Probation Period: This post is subject to a 6 month probationary period. If you currently hold a contract of employment with the Oxford University Hospitals, this will not apply. This statement does not apply to Medical staff or Executive Appointments.
Referencing: When providing employment reference details please provide correct work related email addresses so references can be sought promptly when we are looking to progress your application. Your first referee will need to be your line manager, supervisor or clinical lead from your current or most recent post or place of study. Please note that if you have previously worked for the Trust we will require a reference from your last Manager, this information is essential if your offer of employment is to be confirmed.
Next Steps: Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification, and that your supporting statement reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria. Candidates selected for interview will be contacted after the short-listing process, usually within 2 weeks. (Please note that shortlisting times vary when applying for a Medical position within the Trust). The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system; therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.
No unsolicited recruitment agency telephone calls or emails.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
Offline Shortlist
Essential criteria
- Add "2" for interview "0" for rejected
Work experience
Essential criteria
- Recent NHS experience and understanding/familiarity with NHS processes
- Previous work conducted at a band 6 level or equivalent
- Completion of core band 5 or junior rotations to include respiratory, neurology, orthopaedics and MSK
Desirable criteria
- Member of CIG eg ATOCP, MACP etc
Skills/abilities
Essential criteria
- Evidence of involvement in research and/or audit activity
- Completion of clinical educators course and student supervision experience
- Relevant teaching experience and commitment to in-service training
Desirable criteria
- Presentation of own work at conferences
Other attributes
Essential criteria
- Flexible team player able to adapt to frequent changes in caseload
- Able to work evenings and weekend shift patterns and participate in on-call duties as required
- Able to deal with physically and emotionally challenging patients
Desirable criteria
- Previous involvement in the discharge planning of complex patients
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Crawford
- Job title
- Inpatient Physiotherapy Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 738084
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