Physiotherapist FTC

Physiotherapist-12 months fixed term maternity cover | Part Time Role - 30 Hours per week | Physiotherapy Department | Private Hospital | Bristol

Spire Bristol Hospital is looking for an experienced and motivated Physiotherapist to join our thriving Inpatient & Outpatients team on a fixed term contract for 30 hours per week to cover 12 months maternity cover. This is a combined role working on the wards 1 day a week (Fridays) and Outpatient clinics 2 days a week (Mondays and Thursdays)

Duties and responsibilities

1. Assess patient's health and wellbeing across a complex and changing caseload.

2. Assist in the delivery of care to meet individual's health and wellbeing needs

3. Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information.

4. Develop own knowledge and skills and those of others.

5. Promotes best practice in health and safety and security.

6. Assist in maintaining and developing services.

7. Contribute to quality improvement.

8. Promote people's equality, diversity and rights

9. Apply technology for measurement, monitoring and treatment of patients.

10. Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI.

Specific Responsibilities

1. Assess patient's health and well being across a complex and changing caseload. • Discuss, agree and explain responsibilities for the physiotherapy assessment of patients, including their needs and any associated risks. • Explain the physiotherapist's role, responsibility, accountability and scope of practice for the assessment of a group of patients. • Promote patient's rights and wishes during the physiotherapy assessment and gain informed consent. • Identify patient's health needs by undertaking thorough subjective and objective assessment methods, using full physiotherapy clinical expertise. • Obtain information on patient's needs within the overall context of their personal and care requirements. • Interpret patient data using all of the information to make a clinical diagnosis, make this available to relevant others. • Identify the implication of the patient's assessment in order to formulate an appropriate and agreed treatment plan. • Transfer and apply appropriate skills and knowledge to new needs and issues.

• Identify and report any significant changes that might affect the individual's health and wellbeing to the appropriate person within the physiotherapy team.

2. Plan, delivery and evaluate care to meet individual's health and wellbeing needs • Identify patient's treatment objectives, which are realistic to their needs, wishes and circumstances. • Using clinical reasoning skills develop treatment plans that are appropriate to the patient taking into consideration their physiotherapy care, risks and wellbeing. • Prepare patient, self and environment appropriately for each therapy intervention. • Integrate evidence-based practice within a treatment plan in order to deliver optimum patient care. • Empower patients to promote their own health and wellbeing, whilst evaluating the effectiveness of the therapy intervention. Improve the effectiveness of the care to meet changing patient's needs. • Respect patient's privacy, dignity, wishes and beliefs to minimise any necessary discomfort. • Accurately maintain records of personally generated clinical observations, treatment records and sales. This will allow accurate billing, budgetary and stock control within the physiotherapy department.

3. Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information. • Identify potential communication differences, relevant contextual factors and the risk of communicating or not communicating information at that time. • Communicate information with regard to the patient's condition in a manner which is consistent with the level of culture, background and understanding using the patient's preferred method. • Develop empathy with patients and provide reassurance when required. • Recognise and manage differences of opinion and maintain communication enabling a constructive outcome to be achieved. • Proactively use a range of skills and styles of communication with others to improve long term goals. • Promote and model good practice consistent with legislation, Spire Healthcare policies and in accordance with the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy core standards and Professional Code of Conduct.

4. Develop own knowledge and skills and contribute to the development of others. • Complete the requirements of Spire Healthcare and departmental induction programme. • Assess and identify current