Job Description

Surrey Downs Health & Care



We require a dynamic and enthusiastic Band 5 Physiotherapist to work across Inpatients, Community and Musculoskeletal rotations throughout the picturesque Surrey Downs.



Rotation opportunities include Inpatient Respiratory/Medical, Pulmonary Rehabilitation; Community Neuro Rehabilitation, Inpatient Neuro Rehabilitation; Elective Orthopaedics; Musculoskeletal Outpatients, Community Therapies and; Community Hospital Inpatients.



Support and training will be provided on each rotation and personal development will be a priority.



The successful applicant will be employed by Epsom & St Helier Trust and be seconded to Surrey Downs Health and Care. As a partnership between the three GP Federations, community trust and acute trust, Surrey Downs Health and Care is delivering true transformational change for adult community services across Surrey Downs to the benefit of patients and the local healthcare system.



Our delivery model is formed around a shared vision and innovative use of the wealth and diversity of both the clinical and managerial experience that the partnership brings and as such it will provide a truly holistic, person-centred service that no one partner could provide on its own.



The model focuses on care being provided through distributed clinical leadership using Primary Care Networks (networks of GP practices working together with combined practice populations of around 50,000); integrated community bedded services and specialist services with the development of pathways into and out of the acute trust.



To provide a high quality physiotherapy intervention to patients in a wide range of specialties via a four monthly rotational scheme whilst consolidating and further developing skills and knowledge learned throughout degree course.



To assess and implement treatment programmes as an autonomous practitioner.



To work unsupervised reporting back and receiving guidance and teaching from the senior physiotherapists on a daily basis.



Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people's own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.



Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:



The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area



CSH Surrey



Epsom and St Helier's University Hospitals NHS Trust



Surrey Council County



Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.



It's on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed - we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.



In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.



To assess, diagnose, plan and deliver treatment programme to



To carry and prioritise own caseload and delegate appropriate work to



To demonstrate the ability to carry out physiotherapy assessments and interventions including manual techniques and therapeutic handling in a competent



To communicate effectively and sensitively condition related information with patients, carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team to gain consent to treatment and to inform/agree expected goals. This will at times include patients with barriers to understanding or communication, eg blind, deaf, dysphasic, children or people who do not have English as a first language.



Attend multi-disciplinary meetings as the physiotherapy representative for individual patients and participate in the clinical decision making process at these



Make accurate and complete treatment records of work undertaken and keep monthly statistics in line with CSP and physiotherapy service



To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your own professional and clinical



To be responsible for assessing and managing clinical risk in relation to your own caseload, seeking guidance and help from senior therapists as



To contribute to development of patient care by attending relevant team, departmental or other appropriate meetings and comment on recommended changes to clinical care or service provision.



To take part in the Emergency OnCall and Weekend respiratory physiotherapy