Senior Orthopaedic Therapy Instructor

Elective Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Lead Opportunity

We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive person to join our Elective Pathway Team at Northampton General Hospital working 22.5 hours a week. This post involves working alongside Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Nurses, and Assistant Practitioners. We provide a seven-day service across the trust. You will need to be a car driver with access to your own vehicle and business insurance. Fuel expenses are covered by the trust.

This post provides a great opportunity to demonstrate your orthopaedic knowledge working with a dynamic elective orthopaedic team as a senior therapy instructor. This role can provide the understanding of how the elective pathway operates starting from pre operation to post operation. The Elective Pathway Team provides a service working with patients in a ward environment and in the community. We also have a partnership with working with the Trauma team by facilitating early discharges and supporting the caseload on the wards.

If you feel that you have a desire to work within the orthopaedic sector, have the relevant skills, and to be flexible between ward and community environment, then please apply.

Provision Of Clinical Services

• Demonstrate an awareness and understanding relevant to orthopaedic conditions and their impact on function and rehabilitation.
• To have a holistic understanding of the patient and their condition, as well as the impact of psychosocial dynamics on their function.
• To enable patients to co-operate in their rehabilitation programme using encouragement, reassurance, tact, and sensitivity; overcome barriers to understanding with patients whose understanding is impaired.
• To identify and implement correct treatment plans within known patient care pathways under the indirect supervision of a qualified therapist.
• To assess and formulate treatment and discharge plans for patients as guided by the agreed treatment framework.
• To identify patients that do not fall within care pathway / agreed framework and who need referral to qualified staff.
• Using protocols and set processes to assess patients’ mobility and functional abilities and assess for and issue appropriate low-level equipment.
• To constantly assess patient’s stamina / understanding during treatment sessions and modify treatment as appropriate.
• To work in a flexible and responsive way when under pressure.
• To provide and receive complex patient care information with the multi-professional team, patients, and carers in board rounds, ward rounds, family meetings, and discharge planning meetings and use this information to modify patient care.