Professional / Clinical responsibilities:
- To run exercise and education sessions for patients participating in pulmonary rehabilitation programmes across South East London supported by a physiotherapist
- To be highly skilled and technically specialised within specific clinical area
- To provide treatment to patients within set clinical protocols
- To carry out assessment of patients with support, and to use clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of evidence based practice to formulate appropriate care plan utilising a range of treatment skills and options
- To continually reassess patients in order to progress treatments and management effectively in order to meet patient goals
- To use own clinical judgement and knowledge in regards to progressing and/or modifying treatment programmes within agreed clinical protocols and parameters.
- To work unsupervised as a technical instructor for majority of the time
- To participate in a five-day service rota
- To evaluate patient responses and treatment outcomes to the team, monitoring and recording patients progress
- To complete onward referrals to other appropriate services including exercise on referral scheme, talking therapies other physiotherapy centres including but not limited to outpatients and community physiotherapists.
- To demonstrate an awareness of clinical risk and ability to manage clinical risk within a remote working setting, including observing patients in all situations applicable to physiotherapy, ensuring safety and security at all times
- To comply, at all times, with the requirements of the Health and Safety Regulations and to take responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of others in the working environment
- To demonstrate physical ability to carry out physiotherapy interventions including leading exercise classes
- To be able to cope with occasional, potentially stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner
- To attend mandatory annual training (e.g. Fire, Manual Handling and Adult Basic Life Support
Communication
- To be able to motivate and encourage patients through effective communication skills, utilising key verbal and non-verbal skills
- Ability to communicate information where there may be barriers to communication and or understanding i.e. patients with cognitive impairment, non-English speaking patients; use of interpreters; excess noise or lack of privacy
- To liaise with the multidisciplinary team as appropriate
- To be responsible to and report regularly to the physiotherapists
- To liaise with other physiotherapists or health professionals as necessary with regard to patient care
- To liaise with managers, other administrative and support staff as necessary to ensure the smooth running of the service
- To attend any meetings and seminars/case conferences as deemed appropriate by physiotherapy staff, including staff meetings and assistant meetings
Management and Leadership
Physical Resources
- To be responsible for competent use and maintenance of all equipment used, to report defects in equipment in a timely manner
- To undertake routine and general light cleaning/tidying tasks within departmental clinical areas
- To undertake some administrative tasks particularly related to record keeping and data inputting
- To prepare and clean equipment used in treatment
- To report all complaints and accidents immediately to a member of physiotherapy staff
Human Resources:
- To be responsible for non-clinical induction of assistants and students as required
- To flexibly plan and organise own time, patient caseload, meetings and training and to adjust plans as required according to exercise classes, staffing levels and to meet deadlines
- To assist the physiotherapist in the development of the programme
- To ensure smooth organisation of patient individual and group work
- To liaise with and provide cover for other Technical Instructors in the physiotherapy service during annual, sick and study leave
- To follow physiotherapy department and Trust policies
- To comment on changes to departmental policies and procedures as required
- To support and participate in the in-service teaching programme
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Technical Instructor to join our outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation team at St Thomas' Hospital. You will be a key member of the team co-ordinating and delivering pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with chronic lung conditions in Lambeth and Southwark. You will be based in St. Thomas' hospital and work across the community sites in Lambeth and Southwark.
The post holder will have excellent communication skills and will gain experience supervising specialist exercise for patients.
The funding for this post has been obtained from NHS England for the expansion of pulmonary rehabilitation. The funding is for 12 months and we would welcome secondments to the post from members of staff wishing to gain experience in the pulmonary rehabilitation setting as well as external candidates.
This post will require the post holder to deliver high quality exercise and education physiotherapy interventions for patients living with chronic lung disease.
You will be expected to:
- work independently within the pulmonary rehabilitation team
- Complete assessments for pulmonary rehabilitation with support
- prescribe, progress and develop exercise programmes for patients
- Support co-ordination of the running of the class and administrative processes associated with the programme.
- Assist and support team members
You will have completed NVQ Level 4 or have significant experience of working with patients or clients within a health and exercise setting. You will have excellent communication, and team working skills. This post would suit an applicant who is able to manage their own time effectively and be confident to work unsupervised for part of the day.
Professional / Clinical responsibilities:
- To run exercise and education sessions for patients participating in pulmonary rehabilitation programmes across South East London supported by a physiotherapist
- To be highly skilled and technically specialised within specific clinical area
- To provide treatment to patients within set clinical protocols
- To carry out assessment of patients with support, and to use clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of evidence based practice to formulate appropriate care plan utilising a range of treatment skills and options
- To continually reassess patients in order to progress treatments and management effectively in order to meet patient goals
- To use own clinical judgement and knowledge in regards to progressing and/or modifying treatment programmes within agreed clinical protocols and parameters.
- To work unsupervised as a technical instructor for majority of the time
- To participate in a five-day service rota
- To evaluate patient responses and treatment outcomes to the team, monitoring and recording patients progress
- To complete onward referrals to other appropriate services including exercise on referral scheme, talking therapies other physiotherapy centres including but not limited to outpatients and community physiotherapists.
- To demonstrate an awareness of clinical risk and ability to manage clinical risk within a remote working setting, including observing patients in all situations applicable to physiotherapy, ensuring safety and security at all times
- To comply, at all times, with the requirements of the Health and Safety Regulations and to take responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of others in the working environment
- To demonstrate physical ability to carry out physiotherapy interventions including leading exercise classes
- To be able to cope with occasional, potentially stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner
- To attend mandatory annual training (e.g. Fire, Manual Handling and Adult Basic Life Support
Communication
- To be able to motivate and encourage patients through effective communication skills, utilising key verbal and non-verbal skills
- Ability to communicate information where there may be barriers to communication and or understanding i.e. patients with cognitive impairment, non-English speaking patients; use of interpreters; excess noise or lack of privacy
- To liaise with the multidisciplinary team as appropriate
- To be responsible to and report regularly to the physiotherapists
- To liaise with other physiotherapists or health professionals as necessary with regard to patient care
- To liaise with managers, other administrative and support staff as necessary to ensure the smooth running of the service
- To attend any meetings and seminars/case conferences as deemed appropriate by physiotherapy staff, including staff meetings and assistant meetings
Management and Leadership
Physical Resources
- To be responsible for competent use and maintenance of all equipment used, to report defects in equipment in a timely manner
- To undertake routine and general light cleaning/tidying tasks within departmental clinical areas
- To undertake some administrative tasks particularly related to record keeping and data inputting
- To prepare and clean equipment used in treatment
- To report all complaints and accidents immediately to a member of physiotherapy staff
Human Resources:
- To be responsible for non-clinical induction of assistants and students as required
- To flexibly plan and organise own time, patient caseload, meetings and training and to adjust plans as required according to exercise classes, staffing levels and to meet deadlines
- To assist the physiotherapist in the development of the programme
- To ensure smooth organisation of patient individual and group work
- To liaise with and provide cover for other Technical Instructors in the physiotherapy service during annual, sick and study leave
- To follow physiotherapy department and Trust policies
- To comment on changes to departmental policies and procedures as required
- To support and participate in the in-service teaching programme
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Technical Instructor to join our outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation team at St Thomas' Hospital. You will be a key member of the team co-ordinating and delivering pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with chronic lung conditions in Lambeth and Southwark. You will be based in St. Thomas' hospital and work across the community sites in Lambeth and Southwark.
The post holder will have excellent communication skills and will gain experience supervising specialist exercise for patients.
The funding for this post has been obtained from NHS England for the expansion of pulmonary rehabilitation. The funding is for 12 months and we would welcome secondments to the post from members of staff wishing to gain experience in the pulmonary rehabilitation setting as well as external candidates.
This post will require the post holder to deliver high quality exercise and education physiotherapy interventions for patients living with chronic lung disease.
You will be expected to:
- work independently within the pulmonary rehabilitation team
- Complete assessments for pulmonary rehabilitation with support
- prescribe, progress and develop exercise programmes for patients
- Support co-ordination of the running of the class and administrative processes associated with the programme.
- Assist and support team members
You will have completed NVQ Level 4 or have significant experience of working with patients or clients within a health and exercise setting. You will have excellent communication, and team working skills. This post would suit an applicant who is able to manage their own time effectively and be confident to work unsupervised for part of the day.
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