physical therapist Hitchin, England
Job description
The Integrated Care Therapy Team consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists and Rehabilitation Assistants who support a wide skill mix of clinicians within the Community setting. We promote close working with district nurses and Matrons, allowing a holistic approach to patient care, joint therapy working and service developments. The successful candidate should have experience being able to demonstrate the following: To provide Physiotherapy to patients within the ICT and Community Nursing Teams. To be delivered as both planned and unplanned care.
To provide assessment and treatment for vulnerable patients with complex needs, patients in crisis, supported discharge from either the acute hospitals or those in intermediate care bed-based units within the community. To act as the patients advocate throughout their rehabilitation programme and enable patients empowerment through the process. To communicate complex patient related information effectively. To ensure collaborative working with the multidisciplinary team members across health and social care sectors and all members of the Trust ensuring the delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service.
To use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication skills to communicate effectively with patients to progress rehabilitation and treatment programmes, and to ensure an understanding of their diagnosis so that patients are supported in self-management of their condition. To use communication skills of persuasion, motivation, empathy, tact, explanation and gaining informed consent with a wide variety of vulnerable patients, within often highly sensitive situations. To identify barriers to effective communication that will regularly be evident including cognitive impairment, expressive and receptive communication difficulties, embarrassment, anxiety, pain, fear, and visual/hearing impairments; to develop and implement strategies to overcome these barriers. To use communication skills to address language and culture diversity issues.
To assist with marketing the Integrated ICT and Community nursing team to develop greater understanding of service delivery within the wider population To maintain accurate and up to date documentation in line with legal requirements and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines. To act as an advisor on professional and clinical issues. To be able to communicate effectively with relatives and carers regarding patient care and progress with the consent of the patient involved. Whilst it is not a legal requirement, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust encourages and supports all staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19 Word versions of documents are available if needed to allow for any adaptations to be made i.e.
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