Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Whittington Health for an experienced band 5 or existing band 6 physiotherapist to provide 9 months maternity cover within our community band 6 physiotherapy rotation.



Whittington Health is situated in North London and delivers health care to the residence of Haringey and Islington; both in the community and through the Whittington Hospital. We have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. Adult Community Services were awarded Outstanding in the last CQC inspection.



As an autonomous practitioner to provide a high standard physiotherapy service to patients as part of a six-monthly rotation through Whittington's Adult Community Services in Islington and Haringey and as part of 7 day working services with extended working hours in some teams



To supervise and teach Band 5 Physiotherapists, Therapy Assistants, Technicians, and students and be involved in teaching colleagues from other disciplines



As an autonomous practitioner, to assess and treat own caseload of patients, including those with complex presentations. In each rotation treatment decisions will be underpinned by specialist knowledge gained from post graduate study of evidence-based treatments and from previous experience.



To carry out assessment of patients, including those with complex presentations, drawing on a wide range of information sources and using clinical reasoning skills to determine an accurate diagnosis and to identify an appropriate physiotherapy care plan from the many treatment options available.



To utilising a wide range of treatment skills in delivery of treatment plans having the highly developed physical skills necessary for provision of effective physiotherapy treatment



To formulate and deliver physiotherapy treatment programmes in a variety of settings and as part of 7 day working service including extended hours. Settings include community, patients' home, home visits, as part of a team, as a sole practitioner.



To work collaboratively to prevent inappropriate hospital admissions and to facilitate hospital discharge to minimize hospital stays.



Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.



To work with patients and their carers when appropriate in such a way as to promote their self-management strategies.



To represent the service at the multi-disciplinary team meetings. This will include discussion of patient care, progress and involvement in discharge planning and continued rehabilitation needs.



To keep accurate treatment records, which fulfill legal and statistical requirements, and which are in accordance with HPC/CSP/Trust/departmental standards.



To provide comprehensive progress and discharge reports to GP's, consultants, patients, members of the multi-disciplinary team and other patient services.



To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload at all times.



To work flexibly to provide cover in other clinical areas when required due to staff shortages.