Serving people with learning disabilities in the London Borough of Harrow, within the Harrow Community Learning Disabilities Service. This is an integrated health and social care multidisciplinary service. The service also works collaboratively with other local health and social care provider services who work with adults with learning disabilities, who also access mainstream services, to ensure that outcomes are met.
The post holder to provide a specialist clinical physiotherapy service to adults with learning disability and their families/carers including assessment, development and implementation of specialist physiotherapy interventions.
The post holder will develop a key role and contribute to the continuing development of the overall physiotherapy within the team.
The postholder will manage their individual defined caseload including complex cases independently, evidencing problem solving and clinical reasoning skills in line with evidence based and client-centred principles.
You will be given an opportunity to be involved in clinical research and development where appropriate.
1. Ensure a high standard of clinical care for the clients and those of more junior staff providing a comprehensive and appropriate physiotherapy service to clients, families and carers
2. Play a key role in the advanced assessment and treatment of clients who may have acute, chronic or complex presentation and determine clinical diagnosis and intervention required
3. Assess clients’ needs and direct to other services as appropriate
4. Maintain records as an autonomous practitioner
5. Communicate effectively with health and social care professionals and outside agencies regarding client care and progress
6. Communicate with other members of the Team regarding policies, service development and management plans
7. Undertake a significant clinical caseload working under supervision in collaboration with other agencies and health and social care professionals
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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A Trust committed to staff personal development, with a trust wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing at its core.
An opportunity to work for one of the top 10 NHS employers
Flexible working
Variety of work
Access to a variety of CPD opportunities.
As a Trust we are committed to investing in our staff through a range of initiatives, both profession-specific and organisation wide.
Physiotherapy professions staff are able to access a range of trust-wide CPD initiatives. We have partnered with Bespoke & Contextual Consulting to provide some of the profession specific CPD, alongside additional CPD sessions we commission as part of CNWL CPD programme for Physiotherapy Professions.
Clinical

To be accountable for all aspects of physiotherapy work including the management of clients, ensuring a high standard of clinical care and to act as a practitioner with autonomy for decision making.

• As the sole qualified community physiotherapist within Learning Disabilities, to accept responsibility, for their caseload, and to manage this efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
• To review and facilitate physiotherapy referrals and prioritise as necessary.
• To formulate individualised management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning, a wide range of treatment skills, evidence-based practice and create options to ensure appropriate service is delivered.
• To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses in assessing and providing highly specialised treatment to clients.
• To convey highly complex information using highly developed communication skills regarding physiotherapy assessment and treatment, simply and with sensitivity to clients including those having communication difficulties owing to their learning disabilities and or language differences.
• Work autonomously in a variety of work contexts, including work in the community which may at times involve working with clients with complex needs in their own home. This includes face to face sessions with individual clients and families.
• Work effectively and reflectively requiring sustained attention and concentration for considerable periods of time
• Verbally communicate highly complex and sensitive information often requiring empathy and reassurance in potentially hostile or highly emotive environments.
• Accountable for one’s own professional actions and to work within the clinical physiotherapy code of practice and ethics, and Trust policies and procedures.
• Communicate complex information and formulations to a range of different people, including families and carers, service users, and professionals, including other psychologists and other disciplines, both within the team and outside agencies.
• Adapt verbal and non-verbal communication to facilitate clients’ understanding.
• Liaise appropriately with all agencies involved and keep them informed of relevant information and recommended guidelines necessary to provide high standards of care for clients, within the recommended limits of confidentiality.
• Provide a clinical service to clients from a range of minority ethnic populations and provide an appropriate specialist person-centred approach of care while considering language, religion, cultural beliefs and customs and adapt assessment, formulation and intervention as appropriate.
• Communicate across language and cultural barriers, jointly working with and offering debriefing and/or supervision to interpreters as required.
• Plan and prioritise own clinical workload and to work with multi- disciplinary colleagues around complex cases, providing this in a setting which is most appropriate to the client and/or service needs.
• Responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical work and communicating complex clinical information to a variety of recipients (e.g. service users, families, carers, other professionals, and statutory and voluntary organisations) orally, in writing and electronically, and as specified by the service.

• As the sole qualified community physiotherapist within Learning Disabilities, to accept responsibility, for their caseload, and to manage this efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
• To review and facilitate physiotherapy referrals and prioritise as necessary.
• To formulate individualised management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning, a wide range of treatment skills, evidence-based practice and create options to ensure appropriate service is delivered.
• To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses in assessing and providing highly specialised treatment to clients.
• To convey highly complex information using highly developed communication skills regarding physiotherapy assessment and treatment, simply and with sensitivity to clients including those having communication difficulties owing to their learning disabilities and or language differences.
• Work autonomously in a variety of work contexts, including work in the community which may at times involve working with clients with complex needs in their own home. This includes face to face sessions with individual clients and families.
• Work effectively and reflectively requiring sustained attention and concentration for considerable periods of time
• Verbally communicate highly complex and sensitive information often requiring empathy and reassurance in potentially hostile or highly emotive environments.
• Accountable for one’s own professional actions and to work within the clinical physiotherapy code of practice and ethics, and Trust policies and procedures.
• Communicate complex information and formulations to a range of different people, including families and carers, service users, and professionals, including other psychologists and other disciplines, both within the team and outside agencies.
• Adapt verbal and non-verbal communication to facilitate clients’ understanding.
• Liaise appropriately with all agencies involved and keep them informed of relevant information and recommended guidelines necessary to provide high standards of care for clients, within the recommended limits of confidentiality.
• Provide a clinical service to clients from a range of minority ethnic populations and provide an appropriate specialist person-centred approach of care while considering language, religion, cultural beliefs and customs and adapt assessment, formulation and intervention as appropriate.
• Communicate across language and cultural barriers, jointly working with and offering debriefing and/or supervision to interpreters as required.
• Plan and prioritise own clinical workload and to work with multi- disciplinary colleagues around complex cases, providing this in a setting which is most appropriate to the client and/or service needs.
• Responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical work and communicating complex clinical information to a variety of recipients (e.g. service users, families, carers, other professionals, and statutory and voluntary organisations) orally, in writing and electronically, and as specified by the service