NHS Scotland
Rehabilitation Physiotherapist - Community Rehabilitation Team
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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC)
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is one of the largest healthcare systems in the United Kingdom, employing approximately 40,000 staff across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health services to a population of over 1.15 million people, and to a wider population of 2.2 million when regional and national services are included.
The Role
Patients have a diverse nature and range of conditions from newly diagnosed conditions including neurological disease to end stage palliative care. The post holder works as an autonomous clinician within the speciality, taking full responsibility for an identified caseload.
The post-holder would be expected to be fully familiar with local policies and procedures within 6 months of taking up post through a period of planned induction and supervision, and is Case coordinator for more than half of these clients.
Has responsibility for caseload supervision of up to three Rehabilitation Support Workers. Completes allocation of multi-disciplinary assessments within the team, identifying multi-disciplinary issues to enable access to the service and clinical prioritisation for team and professional interventions. Works in partnership with clients, carers, Health and Social Work staff, residential care staff and Independent Sector Agencies to ensure optimal care.
Duration, Location, and Working Pattern
- Please note the salary is Pro Rata for part time hours.
- This is a permanent, part-time post of 25.2 hours per week.
- The role is based at Kirkintilloch Health and Care Centre.
- The shift pattern is between core hours, 08:30-16:30.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical
- Professionally and legally accountable and responsible for all aspects of own work including direct and indirect patient care.
- Act independently at an advanced level in assessing & analysing clinical and non clinical information in order to provide a comprehensive clinical diagnosis for individual patients that determines their need for physiotherapy intervention. This may include patients with complex presentation.
- Act independently to plan, implement, evaluate, treat and progress specialised programmes of patient care to maximise their rehabilitation potential including decision making regarding discharge from care.
- 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.
- Manage an identifiable caseload of patients effectively and efficiently.
- Work as part of a multi- professional team to ensure effective communication and delivery of care.
- Incorporate additional skills gained from Continuous Professional Development into clinical practice and disseminate to others.
- Maintain accurate, comprehensive and up to date patient documentation, records and accurate mandatory statistical information to reflect care provided and meet professional and local standards.
- Provide specialist expert advice, teaching and training to other members of the multi-disciplinary professions regarding patient management to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
- Communicate effectively, work collaboratively with and make recommendations to all relevant colleagues to maximise patient care and promote effective multi professional / multi-agency working.
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Case Coordination
- The post-holder co-ordinates the interdisciplinary intervention by team members on an individual client basis including:-
- Responsibility for co-ordinating the interdisciplinary goal planning process.
- Co-ordination of discharge planning and making decisions regarding follow up when necessary.
- Balancing the needs of the clinical caseload management, alongside key working caseload to assist in the management of the team waiting times overall.
- Ensuring that all necessary information is collated and disseminated to the interdisciplinary team to maximise quality of service to the client and other service users.
- Liaising and working collaboratively with other agencies e.g. initiating referrals, sharing of information, recommending appropriate service delivery, initiating and leading at case conferences and discharge planning.
- Securing discharge from the service and arranging recall where appropriate.
Managerial
- Delegate appropriate tasks to Rehabilitation Assistants to maximise efficiency and achieve desired quality of care.
- Develop a robust framework to monitor and evaluate standards of care and clinical outcomes.
- Demonstrate professional leadership within the speciality and with peers across NHSGG&C.
- Participate in the departmental Personal Development and Performance Review system to promote personal and service developments.
- Identify gaps and pressures in the service and discuss remedial action with Rehabilitation Team Leader.
- Involvement in clinical audit and Clinical Effectiveness projects to support the Clinical Governance agenda.
- Comply with the organisational and departmental policies and procedures and to be involved in reviewing and updating as appropriate.
Educational
- Ensure that a comprehensive in-service training programme is provided in the speciality and provide specialist physiotherapy input to the general departmental in- service programme.
- Actively participate in Departmental in-service training, clinical support and HSCP protected learning time programmes to promote own personal development and that of staff.
- Provide both spontaneous and planned specialist advice, teaching and training to other members of the multi-professional team, educational staff and others (e.g. relatives and carers, voluntary sector) to promote knowledge of physiotherapy management to enhance patient care.
- Provide formal and informal teaching sessions for other qualified staff and Rehabilitation Assistants in speciality.
- Active involvement in the clinical training of undergraduate Physiotherapy students.
Knowledge, Training, Qualifications and/or Experience Required to Do the Job
- Degree or diploma in Physiotherapy.
- Current Health Professional Council registration.
- 3- 5yrs post graduate rotational experience of which 2 years should be at senior level.
- Proven clinical expertise in the treatment of care of the elderly, neurological conditions, Orthopaedics and respiratory care.
- Relevant post graduate training, regular in-service training and post graduate courses and evidence of application of acquired skills.
- Working knowledge of basic IT e.g. word processing, use of internet, Data base management.
- The post-holder would be expected to be fully familiar with local policies and procedures within 6 months of taking up post through a period of planned induction and supervision.
- A current full driving licence is required.
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What We Offer
We offer a wide range of supportive policies designed to enhance your employee journey, including a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, Cycle to Work Scheme, bursary scheme and extensive learning and development opportunities.
As an NHS Scotland employee, you will be entitled to:
- A minimum of 27 days annual leave, increasing with length of service, plus public holidays.
- Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme, including life insurance benefits.
- Salary Sacrifice Car Benefit Scheme.
- Development opportunities including study bursaries, e-learning and classroom-based courses.
- Enhanced pay for working public holidays.
- NHS discounts on a wide range of goods and services.
- Confidential employee support and assistance, including counselling and psychological therapies.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, we would love to hear from you.
For An Informal Discussion, Please Contact
Elaine Marsh, Team Leader/ Falls Lead HSCP, 01412328213, Elaine.marsh@nhs.scot
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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) recognises the importance of work-life balance and is committed to offering a range of flexible working options where service needs allow. For roles where less than full-time hours can be accommodated, and where the tenure is listed as “various”, we encourage applications from individuals seeking flexible working arrangements. Flexible working will be included as a topic for discussion during the recruitment process.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde encourages applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion and are proud of the diverse workforce we employ.
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