This is an excellent opportunity to build a strong foundation for your physiotherapy career while gaining experience across a diverse range of acute clinical specialities.

Working for our organisation

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Clinical

• To provide a comprehensive assessment of patients and use clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment techniques to provide an accurate assessment of their condition.
• To formulate and deliver individual treatment programmes based on evidence based practice using clinical assessment, reasoning skills and knowledge of a range of treatment options.
• To assess capacity for consent with all patients and whenever possible ensure that valid informed consent is agreed with the patient working within the legal framework. This will involve fully explaining the outcome of assessment, the options for treatment and the benefits of any procedure or treatment and then reaching agreed treatment goals and outcomes. Communication will frequently be to patients who have complex emotional, physical and psychological conditions e.g. deafness, dysphasia, depression, etc and will require expert use of a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools.
• To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise a patients rehabilitation potential.
• To ensure that all treatment plans are regularly reviewed and revised as appropriate.
• To carry and prioritise your own clinical caseload and delegate tasks appropriately.
• To be responsible for ensuring accurate and comprehensive patient treatment records are kept in line with the Trust, Physiotherapy and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) standards.
• To ensure statistics are maintained according to departmental, Trust and CSP standards.
• To complete necessary training and competency assessment to allow participation in the weekend and on call rota for acute respiratory patients. When working on the rota - to undertake the assessment and treatment of acutely ill patients with respiratory problems who may have a complex presentation, and inform other members of the MDT on progress.
• To attend home visits with another member of staff as necessary.
• To have professional and legal accountability, including the treatment of patients within your area in accordance with the CSP Core Standards of Physiotherapy Practice and the HCPC standards of proficiency, conduct, performance and ethics.
• To attend multi-disciplinary board rounds, case conferences, ward rounds etc. where appropriate to ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service with physiotherapy treatment integrated into the patient pathway, and discharge planning.
• To seek advice and support from senior staff where appropriate.
• To be responsible for the safe and competent use of equipment, patient appliances and aids both by yourself, assistants and patients in your care.
• To manage Clinical Risk in line within the Trust guidelines.

Professional

• To be responsible for and actively participate in continuous professional development - developing knowledge and skills specific to each rotation.
• To develop and maintain a portfolio of evidence to support knowledge and skills framework progression and HCPC requirements.
• To take part in appraisal and be responsible for working to agreed planned objectives.
• To take part in audit, research and development activity as required - this will include taking part in audit and surveys.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of evidence based practice, local and national standards and use this to inform, measure and evaluate your work and current practice.
• To undertake appraisal with Assistant / Technical Instructor staff within a rotation as appropriate, supported by a senior member of staff.
• To actively participate in Team, Service and Directorate meetings and discussions regarding policy and service delivery/development.
• To undertake all statutory and mandatory training as required by the Trust.
• To actively take part in in-service training and any training opportunities identified at appraisal.
• To assist in the delivery of training both within the service and to other health professional as appropriate.
• To provide support, supervision and a learning environment to Therapy Technicians, and less experienced physiotherapists as required.
• To teach relatives/ carers and other healthcare workers when required.
• To assist in the supervision of undergraduate students when appropriate.

Organisational

• To keep up-to-date and comply with Trust Procedures and Policies including Health & Safety, Fire Regulations, Infection control, Equal Opportunities etc.
• To maintain a high standard of confidentiality at all times.
• To promote quality communications across the whole Health & Social Care Community.
• To deal with informal complaints in line with the Trust guidelines.
• To attend staff meetings and be a pro-active member of the department.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• HCPC Registration
• Degree

Desirable criteria

• Post - Graduate Courses
• Clinical Educators Course
• Member of CSP

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of a variety of rotations
• Experience of working in an MDT

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in an NHS environment.
• Experience of participating in Audit and evidence based practice.
• Research Experience.
• Experience of managing limited resources and high workloads.
• Evidence of actively participating in IST and MDT groups.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Self Motivated.
• Demonstrates professional independence.
• Available for on-call, weekend duties and altered working patterns.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria

• Clinical reasoning and identify acts of adverse signs.
• Autonomous Practicioner