Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Adult Critical Care Therapy service. The service covers the Oxford Critical Care and Churchill Intensive Care Units, across a day rota. The General and Surgical units provide an interesting and varied case-mix, and the team is supported by expert advanced practitioners and clinical academics.
The successful candidate will have a good foundation in acute cardio-respiratory and ICU Physiotherapy, and will be open minded and willing to learn and push themselves. The team has a well established competency & capability programme, and the successful candidate will enjoy the support of multiple experienced senior clinicians and peers.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide advanced assessment and treatment for patients with complex needs, and to provide experienced advice, guidance and information to patients, health and social care professionals, carers, relatives and other non professionals.
2. To be an integral member of a team assuming delegated responsibilities for supervision of students, junior and assistant members of staff.
3. Participates in evidence based projects and assists in implementing changes within designated team/area and setting and monitoring standards of practice.
4. Uses initiative in day to day practice, identifying methods to improve the quality, safety and clinical effectiveness of the Therapy services and engaging with the team in a collaborative manner to implement change.
5. To deputise for the Team lead Physiotherapists or Clinical Lead Physiotherapist for the Adult Critical Care workstream.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
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