Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Bank: 0 weeks
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 343-6544551-CC-AL
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Perseid Lower School
- Town
- Morden
- Salary
- £29.12 pro rata
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 31/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Highly Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist Band 7
Band 7
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Job overview
The post holder will provide a highly specialist physiotherapy service for children and young people with severe and complex learning difficulties in Perseid special schools, in accordance with the service level agreement for Sutton Health and Care Alliance.
They will contribute to the development of the special schools physiotherapy service for children. They will plan and provide highly specialist physiotherapy assessment, advice and treatment to a defined caseload of children with severe and complex needs. They will work in partnership with the children, their families and with other professions and agencies, including school staff and the wider health team, to reduce the impact of these difficulties on children’s social and emotional development, their learning and their ability to participate in daily life.
They will work autonomously and without direct supervision, and be accountable for their own actions.
Main duties of the job
· To provide a highly specialist level of clinical skill in paediatric physiotherapy
· To be responsible for a clinical caseload of children and young people attending Perseid Special Schools as identified by the service specification, managing the defined caseload independently and prioritising own workload to ensure effective service provision
· To use clinical assessments, interview and observational skills to determine physiotherapy needs of children and young people and effectively set goals and plan intervention.
· To communicate complex assessment findings and treatment plans with clients, family, school staff and the wider community staff, dealing sensitively with distressing or emotional circumstances and being realistic about clients’ and families’ expectations.
· To assess and treat individual children with complex needs in school, their homes or clinic setting, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, and liaising closely with education staff and parents/ carers.
Working for our organisation
· To ensure that satisfactory systems are in place to maintain effective communication within your area and be responsible for ensuring that any Trust Communications Systems are utilised.
· To observe and comply with the Trust's policies and procedures for Health and Safety ensuring the environment in which you and your staff work is safe, clean and tidy.
· To comply with standard infection prevention precautions to prevent or minimise the spread of micro-organisms and communicable diseases to patients, staff and surrounding community.
· To observe and continually promote equal opportunities in compliance with the Trust's policies on Equality and Diversity and Dignity at Work.
· To ensure the benefits to patients are maximised through careful, economical and appropriate use of NHS resources including equipment, property, money, time, etc.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To assist the Service Manager in planning and providing the commissioned physiotherapy input to children attending Perseid schools, including attendance at appropriate meetings, developing guidelines and protocols and reviewing service provision.
· To keep the Service Manager up to date with service provision issues and report promptly any untoward incidences, clinical or non-clinical, co-operating with any investigation undertaken.
· To be responsible for reviewing efficacy of service delivery and facilitate setting up of new standards or amendment of existing ones, in close liaison with the Service Manager.
· To actively contribute to formulating policies for specialist area and proposals for general service changes.
Person specification
communication
Essential criteria
- Strengthen the bridge between primary, secondary and acute services. Promoting good practice and effective communication within and between primary care, statutory and voluntary organisations on all matters relating to the patient. Communicate complex information to staff, stakeholders, patients and carers where there may be barriers of understanding such as a lack of knowledge about service delivery or care pathways. Diffuse potentially hostile, antagonistic and emotive situations with staff, patients and relatives.
Desirable criteria
- 6 months
Skills
Essential criteria
- To liaise closely with the Leads and senior clinicians in monitoring the level and quality of service provided, working within service standards and response times. To line manage junior colleagues and unqualified staff, ensuring competencies and appraisals are completed within Trust policy. To participate in team objectives, to lead on service development projects alongside Team Leads. To participate at meetings where appropriate for professional and educational purposes. To chair or minute take when required.
Desirable criteria
- experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carolina Cro
- Job title
- recruiter consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02082964086
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