Job overview

BAND 7 CLINICAL SPECIALIST PHYSIOTHERAPIST - ACUTE MEDICINE

Permanent | 22.5 hours per week

 Job OverviewCome and join a forward-thinking and driven Acute Medicine Therapy Team who constantly put patient care and your professional and personal development to the forefront.  We are looking for a positive, proactive clinician with leadership and specialist skills in the field of Acute Medicine to help us build a strong future for therapy.  You will have your own clinical caseload, providing advanced specialist assessments and interventions to a wide range of medical patients including palliative care, neurology, bariatric, dementia, frailty and multi-pathological conditions.  You will also provide clinical support to team members and students as well as assist in their training and development.  You will play an integral role in service development, ensuring our service follows national guidelines and is up to date with Evidence Based Practice relative to the area of Acute Medicine.  We work closely with our wider multidisciplinary team to achieve the best outcomes we can for our patients.

We are an integrated department of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, dietitians and assistants and have strong relationships between the wider multidisciplinary team and community colleagues.  Our core hours are 8.00am-4.00pm but we can offer flexibility.  You will also work as part of our seven-day roster.

Main duties of the job

You will manage a complex caseload whilst supporting/training team members to manage their own caseloads.  Good prioritisation, organisational and time management skills will be needed to balance clinical and non-clinical duties.  You will be responsible for ensuring the use of advanced effective assessment skills to identify appropriate patients and to formulate, implement and evaluate individualised treatment and rehabilitation plans.  You will need advanced communication skills to ensure a successful multidisciplinary approach to patient care and to support positive dialogue with the team and wider colleagues.  You will be responsible for other non-clinical duties such as chairing team meetings, in-service development ideas, training/supervision of students, therapy assistant practitioners and Band 5 and 6 colleagues.  This will include the use of formal appraisal documentation.  You will be key to being actively involved in the measurement and evaluation of your work and current practices through the use of Evidence Based Practice projects, audit and outcome measures.  Through this being able to make recommendations for and assist with change.  You may be responsible for ensuring adequate staffing levels, absence management and wellbeing support for staff within the team in the absence of a Team Leader.

Working for our organisation

The James Paget is a vibrant university hospital providing the best possible care to the people of east Norfolk and north Suffolk.  Situated on the coast with beautiful beaches and the Broads National Park on the doorstep we are within commuting distance of Norwich City.  The Integrated Therapy Department is positive and forward-thinking, always striving to improve services.  Our links with the Research Department is growing with joint projects being worked on.  Our therapists represent the Trust at CSP, RCOT, BOA and BGS conferences.  Personal and professional development is key.  We are developing our research and innovation strategy in line with the national AHP Strategy.  We will support you in achieving your career goals through our well-structured supervision and appraisal system, actively encouraging utilisation of training courses (clinical, non-clinical and leadership skills) with use of CPD funding.  You will be supported to provide education to your team but also to our wider workforce.  We also support development of our future workforce through our close links with the University of East Anglia, Suffolk College and City College Norwich providing teaching and placements to apprentices, under and postgraduates.  Onsite parking/car shares are available.