A permanent post to establish and run an exciting new Thoracic Prehabilitation service across RBH and HH in alignment with an already established service at Guys Hospital
The role includes both virtual and face to face assessment of patients undergoing thoracic surgery for suitability of an exercise group, and running of the exercise group. The role also includes education of patients regarding their upcoming surgery and post-op recovery.
The post holder will be required to work cross site at RBH and HH, with access to a free shuttle bus.
The trust has a strong research identity with other benefits of working at the trust including 10 days of study leave a year and comprehensive In-service training programs.
Undertake a high specialist team leader role alongside the physiotherapy clinical specialist in delivering the physiotherapy prehabilitation service to patients undergoing Thoracic Surgery.
To take a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have highly complex needs, and to determine clinical diagnosis and physiotherapy treatment indicated, maintaining records as an autonomous practitioner.
To be responsible for the supervision of junior team members within the prehabilitation physiotherapy team.
To work collaboratively with wider members of the Rehab and Therapies department to provide high quality care for prehabilitation patients.
To be responsible for the continuing professional development and overall performance of the prehabilitation team.
To play a significant role in the continuous development of the Trust as a member of the Rehabilitation & Therapies Management team and as a potential member of a range of Trust quality/ process improvement project groups.
To support co-ordination of daily allocation of workloads within the physiotherapy team.
To implement a cohesive working relationship with key stakeholders.
This role will require staff to work in a variety of clinical areas including virtually.
This role is predominantly based at RBH but the post holder will need to work cross-site as required.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities. We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Patient / customer care (both direct and indirect)
1.1To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and support more junior staff to do likewise on a daily basis.
1.2 To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
1.3 To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
1.4 To undertake an advanced comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised and group based management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range or treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care.
1.5 To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive treatment plans.
1.6 To be responsible for ensuring effective selection and use of all treatment resources available.
1.7 To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up to date documentation, in line with legal and departmental requirements, and to communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines and patients in the form of reports and letters.
1.8 To plan and organise efficiently and effectively with regard to patient management and use of time (both of self and others within the team).
1.9 To be contactable throughout the working day via the bleep system (this could be by physiotherapy staff, the MDT or patients) and to be able to immediately change planned activity without prior knowledge, sometimes in order to respond to emergency situations.
1.10 To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise physiotherapy treatment/ rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition and physiotherapy involvement.
1.11 To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, patients and other professionals to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy, and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
1.12 To give specialist advice, teaching and training to other members of the Multidisciplinary team (MDT) regarding the medical management of patients with cardiorespiratory problems.
1.13 To give specialist advice to the MDT and medical staff (to consultant level) regarding physiotherapy techniques.
1.14 To co-ordinate and ensure effective delivery of the weekend services and any future 7 day services ensuring that the rotas are covered.
1.15 To be an active member of the overnight and weekend on call service, and to provide specialist advice on a daily basis to other on-call staff regarding all aspects of cardiorespiratory physiotherapy but highly specialist advice in cardiothoracic surgery/cardiology/ ITU.
1.16 To be aware of health and safety aspects of your work and implement any policies, which may be required to improve the safety of your work area including your prompt recording and reporting of accidents to senior staff, and ensuring that equipment use is safe.
1.17 To carry risk assessments within own patient caseload and environment on a daily basis (health & safety and clinical) and to minimise risk within the team.
Please review job description document for full main responsibilities.
