Physiotherapist in Lowestoft

We are seeking to appoint a highly skilled, proactive and motivated Physiotherapist to join our Primary Care Home (PCH). The Primary Care Home is a multi-professional team of Nurses, Therapists, Assistant Practitioners, Health Care Assistants, and Rehabilitation Support Workers delivering nursing, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy, reablement and rehabilitation services to adults in their own homes.

In this role you will provide Physiotherapy assessments and interventions to patients in their homes, working with people to reach their goals, maximise their independence and support their health and well-being. This will include crisis assessments, prevention of unnecessary hospital admissions and rehabilitation. You will also have oversight of the therapy services delivered by other team members and have line manager duties. Your caseload will be varied and allow you to enhance your clinical skills.

Do you have excellent communication skills, consider yourself to be caring and compassionate and want to make a difference to the patient's daily lives, whilst being able to demonstrate how you embody our values and commitments? Do you have a desire for personal and professional development? Then this could be your new job. Ideally, some experience in community work would be an advantage, but we will support the transition from a different physiotherapy environment for the right candidate.

• To provide a high standard of physiotherapy within the integrated community services as part of a multi-disciplinary team to patients within a range of domiciliary settings.
• To provide clinical case management for a caseload of patients who require physiotherapy.
• Participate in rapid assessment for patients who present with a variety of acute, chronic, and age-related conditions.
• To work autonomously at a level appropriate to clinical competence and within scope of professional practice.
• To supervise delegation of work to the Therapy Assistant Practitioners and Rehabilitation Support workers.
• To provide clinical leadership, operational management and professional support to other members of the multidisciplinary team within the Primary Care Home.
• Contribute to recruitment and retention of staff and team development.

The service uses SystmOne as a clinical IT system to support mobile working. The service operates 7 days a week 7:00 to 20:30 hours. Applicants for this post will be required to work between Monday to Friday, flexibility of start and finish times will be considered. At times you may be required to work with another of the 4 PCH's from a different location to cover staff sickness, or capacity pressures.

For further information or an informal visit please contact Advanced Clinical Practitioner Angela.Ruddy@ecchcic.nhs.uk

Lowestoft Primary Care Home is a multidisciplinary clinical team of health and social care professionals working in partnership with Primary Care, Social Services, social care providers, other specialist community health teams and voluntary sector providers to ensure patients are able to remain in their own homes whenever possible.

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.

We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.

At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

Please note previous applicants need not apply.

• To be responsible for a defined area of working e.g. a section of a specialty, or a particular type of patient, working without direct supervision.
• Clinical /professional supervision takes the form of direct observation of practice or formal training/clinical reasoning sessions (at least monthly); advice and support is always available.
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.
• To be responsible for equipment used in carrying out physiotherapy duties, and to adhere to departmental equipment policy, including competence to use equipment and to ensure the safe use of equipment by others through teaching, training and supervision of practice.
• To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
• To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management, and support more junior staff to do likewise.
• To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills.
• To formulate an individualised physiotherapy management and / or treatment plan, using clinical reasoning skills and utilising a wide range of treatment skills e.g. manual physiotherapy techniques, patient education, exercise classes, and alternative options in order to formulate a specialised programme of care.
• To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
• To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition.
• To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.

• To maintain own clinical professional development (CPD) by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments and incorporate them as necessary into your work and to be an active member of the in-service training programme by the attendance and presentation at staff meetings, tutorials, training sessions, external courses and reflective practice.
• Maintain accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date documentation in line with legal and departmental requirements and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports and letters.
• To communicate effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing and therapy colleagues to ensure delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service.
• This will include discussion of patient care and discharge planning.
• To provide teaching/training to other members of the MDT.
• Training, supervision and performance management of junior staff, technical instructors, assistants and students, with assistance from more senior members of the physiotherapy team.
• This will include the use of formal appraisal documentation.
• Participate in the staff appraisal scheme and Personal Development Programme (PDP).
• Undertake the measurement and evaluation of your work and current practices through the use of Evidence Based Practice projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or with more senior physiotherapists.
• To make recommendations for change.
• Demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and apply to work situation.

• To deputise for the Band 7/Team Leader in terms of operational issues.
• Be actively involved in the collection of appropriate data and statistics for the use of the department.
• Be aware of the Health and Safety aspects of your work and implement any policies which may be required to improve the safety of your work area, including the prompt recording and reporting of accidents to senior staff, and ensuring that equipment used is safe.
• To comply with the organisational and departmental policies and procedures and to be involved in reviewing and updating these as appropriate.
• Any other duties which might be considered appropriate by the Band 7/Team Leader or Professional Head of Physiotherapy Services.

All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an essential part of their job role.

Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word 'CARE'. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.

Underpinning our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture. Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead | Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.

Qualifications

• Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy
• Registration with HPC
• Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD
• Evidence of continued professional development including management/leadership development and a professional portfolio.
• Relevant validated clinical courses

Experience

• Experience at band 6 level in the community setting and/or acute rotational setting.
• Supervisory skills.

Additional Criteria

Skills and Experience

• Good knowledge of physiotherapy in relevant area
• Able to work in a busy environment while managing patients with complex health needs that can rapidly change.
• Forward thinking
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Self directed learning
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to pass on skills / knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments.

Personal Attributes

• Physical capacity to deal with moderate physical effort on a daily basis.
• Physical and mental capacity to deal sensitively with patients who may have high levels of anxiety and aggression.
• Capacity to concentrate for considerable periods of time during assessment and management of patients and be expected to respond immediately to interruptions.
• Able to work collaboratively within a team
• Able to work independently
• Committed to personal and team development
• Able to work with others and pass on skills and knowledge.
• Able to maintain judgement under pressure.
• Able to maintain motivation, drive, enthusiasm. Confident.
• Desire to work in clinical area commensurate with the post.
• Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours: (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead | Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
• Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.

Skills and Experience

• Excellent knowledge
• Critical appraisal
• Audit
• Research
• Neurology, Respiratory and Orthopaedic specific postgraduate training

Personal Attributes

• Able to recognise own limitations while identifying learning and development needs.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.