Job Overview
Do you have a passion for working with Older people, encouraging rehabilitation and empowering patients in acute wards?
We are looking for a clinical specialist to work alongside an existing team leader for general medicine with an interest in older persons medicine. You will manage a small team of registered and unregistered staff covering 4 older persons wards.
Main duties of the job
* To take a leading role in the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of patients within the clinical speciality. These patients may have complex and/or chronic presentation and maybe in A&E or the wards.
* To use highly specialist physiotherapy knowledge and skills to manage a complex caseload as an autonomous practitioner.
* To ensure a thorough in-service training programme is provided to all members of the team to maintain clinical competency.
* To act as a specialist resource for the multi-disciplinary team and Physiotherapists within FHFT.
* To work with the MDT to develop, monitor and evaluate the specialist service, enhancing pathways in line with national guidelines.
* To lead in appropriate research and audit in the specific clinical area.
* To support the band 7 Team Lead within the speciality and deputise for them as appropriate.
* To undertake respiratory on call for the Trust.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification attached for this role for further detailed information.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Physiotherapy Degree
* HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
* Managerial Training
Skills
Essential criteria
* Teaching skills
* Supervisory and appraisal skills
Experience
Essential criteria
* Band 6 Acute experience in NHS
* Experience of Audit or improvement projects
* Understanding Risk assessments
Desirable criteria
* Development of service
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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