Specialist Rotational Physiotherapist

• The Frailty Flying Squad (FFS) which is a dynamic team of geriatricians, medical nurse practitioners and occupational therapists and physiotherapists providing early assessment and intervention in the emergency department and Older Person's Rapid Assessment Area (OPRAA) to those patients living with frailty.
• The Emergency medicine team- providing care within ED and on medicine wards. Working with a dynamic therapy team.
• Neurology, providing specialist neurology intervention alongside an experienced therapy team

Desirable

• Membership with the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)
• Involvement in CSP Special Clinical Interest Groups
• Attendance at recent relevant postgraduate courses

Essential

• Must be able to provide evidence (through appraisals, competencies and reflection from post graduate study) to demonstrate development of specialist knowledge particularly in working with older people.
• Strong understanding of the physiotherapy process and the ability to apply it when working with older people
• Experience of student and junior staff supervision
• Specialist knowledge of a broad range of conditions which older people may present with
• Clear understanding of and experience of working with people with frailty syndromes.
• Knowledge and understanding of the physical, mental and psychosocial needs of older people (using a bio-psycho-social model to support clinical reasoning)
• Strong understanding of, and positive view of risk enablement
• Knowledge of validated assessment tools and outcome measures
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Desirable

• Experience and knowledge of working in a community services and intermediate care settings
• Experience of working in the emergency department/rapid response service
• Experience of being involved in service development activities
• Experience in audit or measuring clinical effectiveness.
• At least 2 years post qualified experience, to include acute experience
• At least 1 years' experience with on-call/respiratory care.

Essential

• Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgemental
• Motivated to be genuinely kind and caring
• Helps and co-operates with colleagues
• Pro-active and takes responsibility
• Willing to learn, open to change
• Motivated to make a difference in whatever way they can
• Takes pride in themselves, their appearance, their role and where they work.

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good team player-- able to support others in making their contribution
• To be competent in performing complex assessments and treatments with patients with a variety of conditions
• Remain updated with professional and evidence based practice and new research
• Competent IT skills
• Understanding of the legal responsibilities of the profession
• Able to present information written and orally, in a clear and logical manner and to keep accurate and legible patient notes
• Demonstrates effective leadership skills
• Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for service delivery
• Flexibility in response to service demand
• Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit data protection, equal opportunities and health and safety
• Effective time management and organisational skills and ability to work under pressure

Essential

• Regularly undertakes moderate to intense physical effort for multiple periods on a daily basis, whilst carrying out concurrent activities
• Ability to work in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers.
• Able to handle conflict effectively and differences in opinion tactfully.
• Able to use negotiation skills in conflict management across a range of situations
• The ability to maintain high levels of concentration when under pressure from competing sources
• To deal sensitively with patients who have high levels of anxiety and aggression causes by pain, dementia or limited mobility
• To be able to frequently care for critically/ terminally/ chronically ill patients and deal with distressing and difficult circumstances often giving unwelcome news regarding limited expectations from rehabilitation

Essential

• To work alone in environment e.g. domiciliary settings and during the on-call service, assessing and managing risk
• The job may involve frequent exposure to highly unpleasant working conditions on a regular (daily) basis, e.g., bodily fluids including sputum, vomit, urine and occasional exposure to verbal and physical aggression
• Ability to be mobile and travel