Physiotherapist: Paediatrics

• To plan and deliver a patient centred therapy service to patients in hospital and in the community.
• To be professionally and legally accountable and responsible for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care.
• To routinely provide advice, education and support to patients and their carers as part of the therapy process. To adopt a patient centred treatment approach in order to support meaningful participation in life roles.
• To demonstrate effective communication skills when attending and contributing to ward rounds, meetings and case conferences relating to caseload.
• To be responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient records in line with the legal requirements, trust guidelines and professional standard of practice.
• To collect, collate and reports statistical information in line with departmental and trust policy.
• To develop clinical and teaching skills via continuous personal and professional development (CPPD), including maintenance of an up to date CPPD portfolio.
• To participate in the Band 5 peer support group.
• Build and sustain professional relationships both as an independent practitioner and collaboratively as a member of the team.
• To share responsibility for ordering, issuing, retrieving and maintaining departmental equipment.

Essential

• Experience in managing physical disability
• Wide range of experience in training /clinical placements
• Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of therapy intervention.
• Liaison with professional colleagues, carers and relatives in the hospital and community.
• Experience in a clinical setting of application of professional standards and codes of conduct.
• Experience of using evidence based practice.

Essential

• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to treat patients individually and in groups.
• Able to use in depth knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology to inform clinical decision making.
• Ability to manage a clinical caseload and cope with pressures and prioritisation of caseload.
• Make prompt decisions based on knowledge/experience and circumstances.
• Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance.
• The ability to appreciate the sensitivity and complexity of patients' culture and diversity and the ability to provide services appropriate to individuals' needs.
• Ability to receive and impart sensitive information related to disability and loss of function.
• Ability to deal with distressing or demanding situations involving profound disability, life threatening situations, bereavement and/or death.
• Ability to positively manage exposure to patients and environments, which may be highly distressing, antagonistic, open to aggression and unpleasant.
• Maintain confidentiality with regard to patients, staff and other health service business.
• Recording and reporting assessments and treatments accurately and concisely.
• Understand and implement appropriate standards, including risk management, in all work undertaken.
• Maintain accurate statistics.
• Ability to undertake physical activity involved with therapeutic handling of patients.