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Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
About
On 1 July 2014 Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust became one of the largest trusts in the UK by acquiring Barnet and Chase Farm hospitals.
Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation. Welcome to the Royal Free
Band 7 Physiotherapist Medical HSEP
Accepting applications until: 02-Aug-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 02-Aug-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Barnet Hospital
- Cyfeiriad
- Wellhouse Lane
- Tref
- Barnet
- Cod post
- EN5 3DJ
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekend work required)
Salary
- Cyflog
- £49,178 - £55,492 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Medical HSEP (Health Services for Elderly People)
Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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Trosolwg o'r swydd
We have an opportunity at Barnet Hospital to recruit a dynamic Band 7 Physiotherapist to become part of our integrated Medical HSEP (Health Services for Elderly People) therapy team. Our team includes therapy support workers, occupational therapists, dieticians, speech and language therapists and physiotherapists. All disciplines are dedicated to providing and improving our excellent quality of care for older patients and those living with frailty and dementia.
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The successful candidate should be an enthusiastic and passionate therapist, who is keen to develop their specialist clinical knowledge and management skills. They should be forward thinking and pro-active with excellent organisational and clinical skills within the fast paced in-patient setting, to facilitate safe discharges and provide excellent quality of care. There are many opportunities to lead on and participate in Quality Improvement projects and assist in setting new directions for our service. Good communication skills and the motivation to encourage and facilitate best practice is required. You will be joining a well established and supportive integrated Therapy team and work closely with, and be supported by, the Clinical Lead and an Advanced Frailty Practitioner.
It is a requirement for this post to participate in the 7 day working roster and bank holiday cover.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
The Therapy Department holds a high profile within the Trust and you will be encouraged to develop your clinical, teaching and managerial skills within Trust values and CPD guidelines. Support and supervision will be provided. Our multidisciplinary Therapy Services department is committed to staff and service development and offers a large range of in-service and external training to suit individual’s learning objectives and the needs of the service. The post holder will uphold the royal Free World Class Values when interacting with service users, staff, colleagues, clients and patients alike so that everyone at Barnet Hospital can feel:
- Welcome all of the time
- Confident because we are clearly communicating
- Respected and cared for
- Reassured that they are in safe hands
For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
- To be a proficient member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), contributing towards clinical decisions.
- To liaise with other MDT professionals, statutory organisations such as: Local Authority Social Services, Housing and voluntary organisations effectively and as appropriate regarding individual patient care. This information can be highly complex and sensitive and requires the therapist to have advanced negotiating skills in order to secure appropriate treatment and discharge plans including care and/or adaptive equipment for individual patients.
- To ensure that up to date written and electronic (patient) records and activity data are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust standards and provide specialist therapy reports relevant to practice setting.
- To advise and monitor the development of documentation and written patient information.
- To provide highly specialised professional help and advice to therapy colleagues, other members of the MDT and to relatives and the community teams carers on a daily basis, facilitating effective communication.
- To communicate assessment and treatment outcomes to the relevant disciplines via the most appropriate methods e.g. reports, letters, medical notes and ensure self and others maintain high standards.
- To screen and prioritise referrals for therapy treatment, including those of highly complex patients.
- To screen, assess and formulate treatment plans for unwell respiratory patients in allocated clinical areas, and appropriately escalate to the MDT and PARRT (Patient At Risk & Resuscitation Team).
- To have a major role in ensuring appropriate risk management occurs within designated area, such as risk assessment and timely completion of incident forms (IR1), reporting back to Clinical lead.
- To assess patients’ current functional ability and occupational needs and make independent decisions using advanced clinical reasoning skills, to determine safety for discharge. To refer, provide and arrange appropriate services to improve functional independence and ensure safe discharge and evaluate appropriateness of these treatments.
- To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical data to form accurate diagnoses and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions. From this analysis, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive management and discharge plans.
- To formulate individualised treatment plans, using highly developed clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a highly specialised program of care.
- To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
- To be additionally responsible for the clinical management of patients with multidimensional complex needs within their specialist team.
- To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on lifestyles changes and adaptations to the client’s social and physical environment.
- To apply a high level of understanding of general medical and surgical conditions and the impact on patients functioning.
- To be responsible for equipment used in carrying out therapy duties and to adhere to departmental policies. This includes competence to use equipment and to ensure the safe use of equipment by others through teaching training and supervision of practice.
- To ensure that self and other team members are able to identify those patients who pose a high manual handling risk. To utilise departmental systems and guidelines to facilitate manual handling risk assessments and develop treatment and management plans accordingly.
- To implement current departmental priority tool for work area balancing other patient related and professional demands.
- To have clinical responsibility for a highly specialised caseload of patients, organizing this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and time management, supporting more junior staff to do likewise.
- To take a lead role in the advanced assessment, treatment and management of patients, who frequently have complex and/or chronic conditions. This may include psychosocial and emotional issues as well as physical components and will involve using investigative and analytical skills.
- To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical data to form accurate diagnoses and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions. From this analysis, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive management and discharge plans.
- To formulate individualised treatment plans, using highly developed clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a highly specialised program of care.
- To be responsible for planning and delivering a client centred therapy service for patients with complex physical and psychosocial needs, grading services where necessary.
- To manage a caseload of clients with complex needs, taking on the role of care coordinator and/or vocational lead where relevant.
- To work as an autonomous practitioner, with access to expert advice and support from experienced clinicians as required.
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Covid-19 Vaccination
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We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible. - AT* - Apprenticeship Training. Where AT* is entered next to the job title indicates that this vacancy is for an apprenticeship role.
- By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we require you to complete your stat and Man e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.
- If you are an EU/EEA citizen who does not have EU Settlement or Pre-Settled status, you will require a visa to work in the UK.
- Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
- If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
- The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
- The Trust will request a DBS (CRB) if post involves regulated activities. The Trust is compliant with the Disclosure and Barring Service Codes of practice and the Rehabilitation of offenders act.
- By applying for this post you are agreeing to Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
- Please be aware of scams – unless specified above, we will only communicate with you via @recruit.trac.jobs or nhs.net e-mails and we will never ask you for any payments.
Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
Please note:
- Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
- Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
- Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
Please be advised that due to exceptionally high demand, all Royal Free accommodation is at full capacity and waiting lists are being held. Average waiting times are 12 months. Please do not rely on Trust accommodation when you commence your role and ensure you investigate alternative accommodation for your arrival.
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
Values
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Current H.C.P.C. Registration
- Diploma/Degree/Masters in Physiotherapy
- Demonstration of commitment to life long learning
Meini prawf dymunol
- Membership to a special interest group e.g RCOT, SAM
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Evidence of C.P.D in relevant areas of practice
- Post registration experience relevant in Medical HSEP
- Extensive experience working in an acute health setting and complex discharge planning.
- Experience in supervising/teaching staff/student/volunteer
Meini prawf dymunol
- Relevant other associated work experience
- Leadership & first line management experience
- Experience of involvement in audit
- Experience on acute medical care wards
Skills & Aptitudes
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Effective written and verbal communication skills to a range of audiences
- Demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning skills and management of complex cases
- Ability to relate clinical knowledge to practice
- Able to work independently as an autonomous practitioner
- Ability to work as part of a team including MDT
- Good organisational skills
- Reflect & critically approve own performance.
- Ability to lead and motivate self and team
- Effective time management skills and ability to prioritise case load and managerial tasks
- Ability to laterally think and problem solve
- Ability to apply appraisal teaching and supervision skills
- Highly specialist knowledge of current therapy in relevant area
- Awareness of current health issues
- IT skills / computer literate
- Able to maintain judgment and make decisions under pressure
- Excellent presentation & training skills.
- Clear vision of role/commitment to specialty
Personal Qualities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Committed to personal and team development
- Adaptable and supportive of change
- Punctual and reliable
- Research-minded
- Able to work weekends in line with the Therapy 7 day working provision
- Clear dedication and interest in working within Medical HSEP
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Claire Cushen
- Teitl y swydd
- Clinical Lead Therapist, Medical HSEP
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0208 216 5794
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- Recruitment Support
- Open Monday to Friday
- 08:30 am to 17:30pm
- Telephone
- 01629 702338
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