**Internal MPFT Applicants Only** Senior Physiotherapist

You will be required to:
· Work on your own as a registered practitioner within the established multidisciplinary team, you will undertake a Community Physiotherapist role for the South East Staffordshire Community Rehabilitation Service.
· You will be expected to assess, identify, and agree goals and treatment plans using diagnosis and evidence-based treatment programmes to meet a wide variety of patient needs in the most appropriate location in the community e.g. patients' own homes, clinics, and care homes.
· The role will involve supporting the team to provide training to carers, care agencies and other external partners on an ad hoc basis at the request of Operational and/or Clinical Leads.
· The post holder will hold responsibility for their own caseload and will be required to work without direct supervision. They will undertake regular supervision and training of rehabilitation assistants and supervise, educate, and assess the performance of Physiotherapy students.
A car driver is essential for this post due to the nature of our work. Please contact us to discuss flexibility with hours if required., + To undertake comprehensive assessments using verbal and non-verbal communication skills, highly skilled physical examination, and manual assessment techniques. Using clinical reasoning skills you will provide accurate clinical diagnosis, agree physiotherapeutic goals and the physiotherapy treatment plan with the patient/carer.
+ To work to CSP and HCPC code of professional conduct and to work within guidelines. To have a good working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and others quality of practice.
+ To be responsible for maintaining own competency through Continuing Professional Development activities and maintaining a portfolio which reflects personal development and meets the HCPC standards.
+ To maintain and develop current knowledge of evidence-based practice, developing specialist knowledge of conditions and patient types through in-service training, self-directed learning, tutorials, peer review and external courses.
+ To hold responsibility for own specialist caseload and be responsible for a defined area of service / patient type working without direct supervision as an autonomous practitioner.
+ To continuously assess and reflect on current practices and identify and lead on changes in clinical and working practices to ensure that recognised 'best practice' is implemented. To challenge opinion and negotiate to manage conflict where other team members are involved.
+ To demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management and apply to work situation e.g. lone working, manual handling, incidents, accident reporting.
+ To participate in clinical supervision, peer support, staff appraisal and personal development plan.
+ To supervise, educate and assess the performance of Physiotherapy students; this would involve working with universities and Trust Clinical Placement team to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meet standard set by the degree level qualification.
+ To use own car to occasionally transport patients and carry equipment.
Systems and equipment
+ To input data on patient recording systems (currently Rio) within the timescales specified in the record keeping policy.
+ To adhere to policies and procedures which ensure patient safety e.g. risk assessments, vulnerable adults, and infection control.
Decisions and judgements
+ To work autonomously with responsibility and accountability for the planning, prioritisation and management of own caseload and workload, including the allocation of appropriate duties to assistants, students, and admin staff where appropriate.
+ To formulate accurate prognosis and recommend best course of intervention, developing comprehensive discharge plans.
+ To implement, evaluate, analyse, and adjust treatment programmes according to the patient and carer needs, which may be highly complex. The frequent use of encouragement, motivation, negotiation, reassurance skills as well as discussing with clients/carers their progress will be essential.
+ To re-evaluate patient conditions which may change because of pathological processes, aging, and the effects of treatment.
+ To implement the audit cycle and use the results, current research, and government guidelines to recommend changes to service delivery and to clinical practice, demonstrating evidence-based link to the development and improvement of clinical practice.
Communication and relationships
+ To work closely with South East Staffordshire Community colleagues and in partnership with Primary Care networks, to provide a service in an integrated manner.
+ To act as a source of spontaneous and planned clinical expertise, giving appropriate advice and guidance for the patient, carers and other professionals within health, education, social services, and the voluntary and private sectors, within safe practice guidance.
+ Provide and receive complex information relating to patients' diagnosis, treatment and long-term rehabilitation outcomes to patients, their carer's and the multidisciplinary team.
+ To use communication tools (verbal and nonverbal) to gain informed consent with patients where there may be difficulty with effective communication e.g. limited comprehension altered perception, pain, fear, and/or those who may be unable to accept diagnosis.
+ To use highly developed communication skills to give both spontaneous and planned advice to disseminate sensitive and emotive information in such a way that the patient understands their diagnosis and expectations for independent function and to agree goals and gain co-operation in the ongoing treatment plan. This may be with reference and sensitivity to cultural, religious, and emotional barriers and needs.
+ To contribute to team meetings, huddles, goals, and objectives.

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
+ Supporting your career development and progression
+ Excellent NHS Pension scheme
+ Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
+ Options for flexible working
+ Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
+ Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
+ If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
+ Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
+ Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
+ Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
+ Free car parking at all trust sites
+ Free flu vaccinations every year
+ Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications