Critical Care Follow Up Physiotherapist

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Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Critical Care team as a Follow Up Physiotherapist, undertaking a lead physiotherapy role in assessing, planning and evaluating patients needs through the Critical Care Follow Up clinic.

You will be part of a multidisciplinary team within the critical care unit, providing advice to medical, psychological and nursing staff.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties

• To provide a specialist rehabilitation service to support the most complex of patients. Ensuring both short and long term rehabilitation needs are addressed. Ensuring the appropriate interventions, guidance, or support is offered at the correct time. Ensuring parents and their families are informed and included in their rehabilitation journey, and are offered the correct information.
• To perform specialist comprehensive therapeutic assessments to identify rehabilitation needs and provide a patient centered individualised rehabilitation programme ensuring continuity of care and co-ordination of the patient rehabilitation process. Working with complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of range of options.

To ensure appropriate early referrals are made to enable the patient to receive the best possible service(s) available for their rehabilitation needs.

To provide a post critical care follow up service. Ensuring the correct patients receive the appropriate physical, psychological and financial services to aid ongoing recovery and improve their quality of life.

To be fully integrated into the team ensuring excellent communication at all levels.

Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid formal consent and jointly agreed goals.

Working for our organisation

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please refer to the full job description attached and the main duties as shown above. Please contact us if you have any further queries or questions.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Specialist knowledge of rehabilitation pathways
• Knowledge and understanding of current EBP of Critical Illness and recovery
• Knowledge of NICE guideline and National Service Framework appropriate to specialist field
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Mental Health conditions, working knowledge of ICU delirium and its treatment
• Knowledge of cognitive assessments which are compatible with patients post critical illness.
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Acute inpatient experience
• Evidence of ability to work in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a critical care environment
  
  

Training

Essential criteria

• Evidence of recent post-graduate learning and education in subjects relevant to area of practice.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Advanced neurological therapeutic skills.
  
  

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The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.

At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.

Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.