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Wellcome to my electronic Continous Professional Development (eCPD) portolio. You will find evidence of attended talks, formal training and also feedback from people I have worked with.
Please find below information about me, my qualifications, skills, employment history as well as my interests & hobbies.
Josh Blackwell
Kind, professional and receptive qualified physiotherapist, who will bring a friendly and empathetic presence to any role. Looking to become proactively involved in health research, with particular interest in paediatrics, improving public physical activity levels, living with obesity and neurology.
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Qualifications
Physiotherapy (BSc) 1st class honours degree
2020 – 2023 Oxford Brookes University, Oxfordshire
Marine Biology (BSc) 2:1 class honours degree
2010 – 2013 Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
3 A-levels awards Maths (A*), Biology (A*) and History (B)
13 GCSEs awarded at grades A* ─ A including Maths, English and the Sciences
Employment history
University College London Hospitals, June 2024 – Nov 2024
- Carry a full caseload of patients, conducting assessments, prescribing treatment and manage discharge pathways
- Liaising with other members of the multidisciplinary team to organise and co-ordinate care as well as families and friends
- Managing administrative tasks such as ensure mandatory training is up to date
- Supervising junior colleagues and delegating tasks to assistants / technicians
Croydon University Hospital, Sept 2023 – June 2024
- Carry out assessments, treat and review children and young people referred to outpatients physiotherapy department
- Screening and managing risk, recognising red flags and safeguarding concerns and communicating these appropriately to my seniors and the patient/their family/carers
- Work within my scope of practise to treat children and young people holistically, through exercise, groups, education, reassurance and education
- Manage my own caseload and time, prioritising acute and routine patients and when they should be reviewed
- Manage administrative tasks such as referrals, communication with patients and their families, create treatment plans
Research Assistant, Oxford Brookes University, May 2022 – Sept 2022
- Assisting with running interventions, supervising and motivating children/young people through the 3 hour interventions for 10 days
- Completing outcome measures at baseline and follow up sessions
- Attending and participating in a weekly journal club
- Organising and inputting raw data (data entry), ensuring it was safely uploaded to the secure storage database REDCap (data storage), checking data entry to remove as much human error as is possible
- Carrying out basic statistical analysis using primarily Excel and some Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)
- Ensuring parents/carers were comfortable and happy during the interventions
Cotts & Linz Ice Cream Café, Shoreham-by-Sea, seasonal work between May 2021 – Sept 2023
- Taking orders, preparing basic meals and serving customers
- Delivering good customer service and taking part in the day-to-day running of an ice cream shop during the summer in sunny Sussex
- Operating cash machine, cashing up at the end of the day, following protocol regarding opening and closing the shop
- Ensuring the machinery/equipment was working properly, reporting when it was not and the ice creams were stored at the correct temperature
- Managing more junior members of the team, ensuring they were happy and having regular breaks
- Dealing with unhappy customers, reporting to my manager when more senior input was required
Physiotherapy Assistant (Bank), West Middlesex University Hospital, May 2021 – Sept 2021
- Carrying out subjective assessments on people admitted to the Acute Medical Unit
- Assisting the qualified therapists with mobility practise and transfers
- Ensuring the continuation of care from admittance to ward by following up on patient’s admitted and liaising with therapists in other departments so that patient’s needs were met and understood
- Also assisting on the orthopaedic weekend rota - mobilising and carrying out rehabilitation with patient post-THR/TKR
Physiotherapy Assistant, West Middlesex University Hospital, Sept 2019 – Sept 2020
- Part of therapy team, working with stroke victims and qualified therapists to promote their return to function and independence by caring out rehab
- Manual handling of patients, to safely help them into/out of bed ensuring
- Supporting and comforting distressed and emotional family
- Working with nurses, doctors, pharmacists and other members of the wider hospital team to ensure patient received best possible care
- Ordering stock for the therapy gym and therapists, speaking to suppliers, doing stock checks, carrying and storing heavy therapy equipment safely
Interests
I enjoy playing volleyball, home baking and hiking in my spare time as well as volunteering (most recently at Glastonbury festival!)
