Description:
Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) is an exciting and dynamic place to work. The team at the Hospital are in the midst of implementing a new hospital strategy that has already delivered on the opening of a new renal unit, day surgery centre, step down facility in the community and the start of building works on a new ICU extension. It is an exciting time to join the TUH team and one of Ireland’s main teaching hospitals with so many plans to enhance patient care. The Hospital believes in investing in their team and offers excellent education and research opportunities.
TUH is one of Ireland’s largest acute teaching hospitals, adult, psychiatric and age-related healthcare on one site. The Hospital has 495 adult beds with over 3,500 people on staff with over 50 different nationalities represented. The Hospital is a provider of local, regional and national specialties. It is also a national urology centre, the second largest provider of dialysis services in the country, a regional orthopaedic trauma centre and a designated trauma unit.
TUH is one of the two main academic teaching hospitals of Trinity College Dublin - specialising in the training and professional development of staff in areas such as medicine nursing, health and social care professionals, emergency medicine and surgery, amongst many others. TUH is part of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group which serves a population of over 1.2 million across seven counties.
The vision of the Hospital is “ People Caring for People to Live Better Lives” through excellent health outcomes supported by evidenced based practice, positive patient and staff experience in an empowering and caring environment. A culture of innovation and quality improvement in everything we do.
Our TUH CARE values – for patients, their families, our community and staff are:
- Collaborate – together and with our academic and care partners
- Achieve – our goals, positive outcomes and wellbeing
- Respect – for patients, each other and our environment
- Equity – for patients and staff
At TUH we view our staff as our most valuable asset and every member of the Team is valued equally. We recognise that a skilled, satisfied and motivated workforce is a prerequisite to high quality care.
- Develop pathways between hospital and primary care, so that patients can be referred to TUH and so that follow-up therapy can take place in the primary care setting where appropriate. Included in this will be education to primary care therapists on identification of suitable patients and best practice recommendations
- Undertake an appropriate assessment, draw up individual treatment plans and provide effective treatment to all referred patients to the speciality
- Set and maintain a high standard of clinical practice
- Ensure that privacy and dignity of the patient is respected at all times
- Liaise with patients, carers and other health professionals to ensure a holistic approach to patient care
- Maintain good communications with Consultants, General Practitioners and community care team members for early discharge and adequate follow – up
- Plan and implement a care package from hospital to home
- Keep abreast with current changes in clinical practice by attending seminars, conferences and post-graduate courses
- Maintain an accurate record-keeping system to comply with legal requirements, to support clinical studies and to provide information for data collection
- Attend clinics, team meetings and / or ward rounds when necessary
- Play an active role in the departmental in-service training and teaching programme for other health professionals
- Organise and facilitate the running of national and international courses
- Supervise, teach and advise junior staff, students and ancillary staff working in the speciality
- Liaise with teaching staff and participate in the clinical training and assessment of physiotherapy students
- Facilitate and jointly supervise undergraduate research projects
- Actively participate in multi-disciplinary and multi-centred trials
- Attend mandatory training programmes
- Responsible for the organisation and provision of the physiotherapy service for patients admitted in the area of speciality to which he/she is assigned
- Keep records appropriate to his / her office as may be required
- Participate in clinical audit activities to monitor clinical standards
- Comply with departmental policies on data collection, administrative procedures and health and safety guidelines
- Do regular appraisals with staff
- Advise manager on planning and development of speciality area in liaison with senior staff of other disciplines
- Ensure safe working environment for patients and staff and report immediately any accident either staff or patient
- Assist with induction of junior staff to the department
- Read and act upon all issued staff policies
- Perform such other duties as may be assigned to her/him by the Physiotherapy Manager