Physiotherapist for Thoracic Prehabilitation

Patient / customer care (both direct and indirect) 1.1

To 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.

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