A 12-month fixed-term post in the Specialist Medicine physiotherapy team at Hammersmith Hospital, run by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The core work is comprehensive assessment and re-assessment of patients with complex presentations, managing a caseload and communicating with patients and families under pressure. This role adds supervising junior and student physiotherapists, teaching staff and supporting the renal frailty pathway, across renal, cardiology and general medicine. Essential on-call and weekend experience in an acute hospital is needed.
What the job involves
- Take professional and legal accountability for own work and the patients in your care
- Carry out comprehensive assessment and re-assessment of patients, including those with diverse or complex presentations
- Communicate with patients, carers and family to motivate them, engage them in therapy and ensure they understand their condition
- Deal sensitively with patients and carers who show high anxiety, frustration or aggression from pain, poor prognosis or limited mobility
- Plan and prioritise own caseload independently day to day, in line with team priorities, and help other team members
- Measure and evaluate own work and practice through projects, audit or outcome measures
- Critically appraise published research and use it to inform practice
- Assist in the induction, daily supervision and delegation of tasks to band 5 physiotherapists, therapy support workers, students and administrative staff
- Supervise junior and student physiotherapists alongside the clinical caseload
- Teach more junior staff
- Support the renal frailty pathway
- Help with the continuous development of services
Qualifications
- Degree (or equivalent) in physiotherapy
- Evidence of CPD through a maintained portfolio
- Specialist post-graduate learning from previous rotations, formal study and informal CPD in clinical specialities
- Learning in personal effectiveness and first-line leadership from experience and formal or informal CPD
Registration & licences
- State registration with the HCPC
Experience
- Recent substantial and sustained experience in relevant physiotherapy specialities and clinical settings
- Working as part of a physiotherapy and multidisciplinary team
- Taking part in service development projects
- Clinical education of staff, students or assistants
- Supervising students or physiotherapy assistants, with basic supervision skills developed
- On-call and weekend working in an acute hospital
Skills & knowledge
- Sound clinical decision-making using advanced clinical reasoning
- Competent IT skills
- Fluent written and spoken English
Nice to have
- Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Membership of CSP special interest groups relevant to the speciality
- Previous NHS experience as a qualified physiotherapist
- Previous senior physiotherapist experience in a relevant post
- Involvement with clinical governance and an understanding of its link to patient care
- Evidence of CPD relevant to the role and specialist area
- Well-developed communication and consensus-building skills, including speaking to groups
What's offered
- Career development
- Flexible working and wellbeing support
- Staff recognition scheme
- Comprehensive in-service training and induction programme
- Support for internal and external courses
- Opportunities for postgraduate study
- Optional Cycle to Work and car lease schemes
- Optional season ticket loan and onsite leisure membership
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
