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The Band 5 Rotations cover the following clinical areas:

• Orthopaedic Trauma:  Working as part of a proactive MDT to provide a nationally recognised femoral fracture pathway and other trauma, including spinal cord injury, as part of the East of England trauma network
• Elective Orthopaedics:  Working to deliver an established elective enhanced recovery programme and a range of day case including day case hip and knee surgery
• Stroke:  Providing hyper acute and acute rehabilitation working to national stroke metrics and using a range of neuro-rehabilitation approaches
• Acute Medicine:  Working as part of the MDT with opportunities to work on our frailty ward and across general medical wards providing early functional assessment and rehabilitation to aid discharge or with our neurological patients and palliative care providing specialist input to patients with acute neurological conditions and supporting palliative patients to improve their quality of life
• General Surgery/ICU:  Providing specialist respiratory management within ICU and enhancing patients’ surgical pathway to reduce complications and increase independence
• Acute Respiratory/ICU:  Working as part of the MDT to provide specialist respiratory management within ICU and the acute medical wards using a range of respiratory skills
• Early Intervention Team:  Working within Accident and Emergency, the Emergency Assessment and Discharge Unit and the Frailty Assessment Unit to facilitate early supported discharge and prevent unnecessary admissions
• Pelvic Health:  Providing early recovery advice and support to postnatal and post-operative patients, and will include working with exciting service changes with the recently launched Perinatal Pelvic Health Service, one of 13 early implementer sites across the UK
• Paediatrics:  A newly added rotation based within the community team

The main responsibilities for working within each area are:

• To deliver a physiotherapy service including working with patients both in hospital and community settings who have a range of complex needs
• With support, to be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work including a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management
• To undertake work in a variety of clinical areas as per the rotation which will provide a broad base for both personal and professional development
• To assess capacity, gain informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment
• To be an active member of the respiratory on-call rota (weekday evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays). On these occasions being the only respiratory physiotherapist on duty, although it might be possible to access advice by telephone
• To assist senior staff in the provision of advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and to ensure a co-ordinated approach to patient care
• To work a rostered seven-day service within the James Paget University Hospital or in a community health setting as required
• To collect data/statistics as directed by the Team Leader or Integrated Therapies Clinical Lead
• To be responsible for equipment used, and to adhere to departmental policies including competence to use equipment
• To maintain a proactive professional approach being responsible for own Clinical Professional Development (CPD), actively reading around any updates/developments and incorporate them as necessary into your work
• To maintain comprehensive and accurate assessment and treatment records in line with legal and departmental requirements, and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of letters and reports
• To identify objectives for personal development together with senior staff
• To participate in the evaluation of your work and current practices through audit and critical appraisal
• To participate in providing clinical shadowing experiences for physiotherapy students being supervised by senior staff on their introductory placement, and to explain the role of the physiotherapist to department visitors. To assist senior staff in the training of students and support staff
• To be an active participant in team/department service development
• To support joint working with our community colleagues

Please see the attached Job Description for more details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

Please watch the following videos for an insight into our Integrated Therapies Department:

Landscape version:  https://youtu.be/tklpzav7UrU

Portrait version:  https://youtube.com/shorts/U4lwU9T1wKA?feature=share