Band 6 Community Physiotherapist

at  Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

To provide Physiotherapy to patients within the Integrated ICT and Community Nursing Teams. 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. We are committed to supporting flexible working options for staff, wherever possible, and welcome discussions on flexible working patterns to support our staff to maintain a healthy work life balance. Word versions of documents are available if needed to allow for any adaptations to be made i.e. font, colour, background, convert to Read Aloud

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