Smita Kaushal

· Intensively case manage patients with highly complex and unstable health needs using expert knowledge, advanced clinical and autonomous decision-making skills,

· Comprehensively assess, review and evaluate the needs of both patients and their carers to improve their physical and psychological well being whilst reducing acute exacerbation of underlying conditions and need for hospitalisation.

· Work in partnership with patients, carers, GPs, consultants, other health professionals and social care as appropriate, to instigate diagnostic testing and therapeutic treatments to ascertain diagnosis, and implement proactive treatment and care plans.

· Providing direct management and therapy support for UCR staff.

• Achieved high level of staff motivation through effective leadership and communication.

· Work as an autonomous specialist MSK practitioner in providing and delivering musculoskeletal physiotherapy assessments and treatment plans

· Act independently to assess, analyse and provide a clinical diagnosis for individual patients, including those presenting with complex conditions, to determine their need for further MSK or non-MSK intervention.

· Good understanding of when to refer to other services such as diagnostics, pathology, T&O, medication reviews, pain management, rheumatology, community physiotherapy and injection therapy.

· Write contemporaneous clinical notes using Emis, Arden's Templates and provide advice and support with additional electronic software (e.g. PhysioTec, AccuRx etc) in line with professional standards.

· Participated in in-service training, case studies and learning forums for CPD.

· Worked as a clinically independent and autonomous practitioner, participated and manage defined patient caseload.

· Acted as a source of expertise and knowledge of elderly patients, their carers and families with in the trust within the remit of the frailty practitioner.

· Leads, manages and contributes to service delivery.

· Provided direct management and therapy support for patients attending FSDEC.

· Responsible for recruitment, retention and in-service training whilst ensuring all HR and Health &Safety policies were adhered to.

· Handled management of patient complaints and serious investigations.

· Takes professional responsibility as a first-contact physiotherapist, with high-level decision-making and clinical-reasoning skills to assess, diagnose and triage of patients.

· Manages a complex caseload (including patients with long-term conditions, comorbidities and multi-factorial needs).

· Accountable for decisions and actions via HCPC registration, supported by a professional culture of peer networking/review and engagement in evidence-based practice

· Attended patients to 2hrs response, providing quick home assessment and equipment provision for admission prevention.

· Confident in identifying deteriorating patients and skilled in managing patients with reduced mobility, risk of falls, post-elective surgery and musculoskeletal conditions.

· Worked in pilot project and successful launch of STARRS ED long day, 7 days service for admission prevention.

· Worked in developing TKR and THR pathways to reduced LOS to 2 days.

· Carrying caseloads and completing therapy interventions to facilitate discharges by optimising hospital bed utilisation and reducing the length of stay.

· To comply with professional and statutory requirements per the Code of Professional Conduct and Standards of Practice.

· Direct management of B6 therapy staff across RR and ESD teams

· Facilitated in-service training group and planning journal club to support CPD activity.

Completed practice educator training and facilitated student placement and mentoring.

Areas of work: rapid response and falls prevention

Ares of work- Intermediate care and falls

Areas of work: surgical wards, acute wards

• Assisted patients in regaining strength post-surgery using guided exercises.
• Employed specialised equipment to aid in patient rehabilitation.

Areas of work: Brain injury and neurorehabilitation

Areas of work: Neurorehabilitation

Hands on treatment for patients with orthopedic, musculoskeletal, elective and reconstruction surgeries

Worked with children presented with neurological conditions and neurodevelopmental disability