Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Please see JD for full description of job role and responsibilities To take a leading role in the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients with neurological deficits. These patients may have an acute, sub-acute or chronic presentation and may have a range of routine to highly complex problems. To provide an effective high-quality service to patients. Take a lead role in supervision and teaching of physiotherapists within this specialty by encouraging evidence-based practice and CPD. To promote the role of physiotherapy with other disciplines, acting as a specialist for advice. To demonstrate leadership skills, contributing to service development by identifying areas for development and holding responsibility for defined projects. To set and monitor standards of practice. To undertake evidence-based projects, including recommendations for change in practice and to lead in departmental and service evaluation/research. To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant specialist clinical workload and merge a case load of patients with a range of routine and highly complex needs. To act as keyworker for agreed patients. To assess and recommend the most appropriate neurorehabilitation pathway for individual patients, including tertiary centres, in acute and community settings. To provide ongoing advice and monitoring of patients throughout the neurorehabilitation pathway, including active involvement in goal planning and discharge with tertiary centres to facilitate effective discharge and smooth transition between services. To provide expert clinical advice for the most appropriate timing and extent of neurorehabilitation required by individual patients, especially with regard to the use of tertiary services. To be a member of the neurorehabilitation pathways team actively developing Community Neurorehabilitation Services. Person Specification
Experience
Essential Criteria
Post-registration experience, working with neurological patients including acute/outpatients. Desirable Criteria
Previous experience as a clinical specialist physiotherapist (or equivalent) in neurorehabilitation. Skills
Essential Criteria
Exceptional team building and team working skills. Desirable Criteria
Good ability to lead on service development and transformation. Applicant Requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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Please see JD for full description of job role and responsibilities To take a leading role in the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients with neurological deficits. These patients may have an acute, sub-acute or chronic presentation and may have a range of routine to highly complex problems. To provide an effective high-quality service to patients. Take a lead role in supervision and teaching of physiotherapists within this specialty by encouraging evidence-based practice and CPD. To promote the role of physiotherapy with other disciplines, acting as a specialist for advice. To demonstrate leadership skills, contributing to service development by identifying areas for development and holding responsibility for defined projects. To set and monitor standards of practice. To undertake evidence-based projects, including recommendations for change in practice and to lead in departmental and service evaluation/research. To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant specialist clinical workload and merge a case load of patients with a range of routine and highly complex needs. To act as keyworker for agreed patients. To assess and recommend the most appropriate neurorehabilitation pathway for individual patients, including tertiary centres, in acute and community settings. To provide ongoing advice and monitoring of patients throughout the neurorehabilitation pathway, including active involvement in goal planning and discharge with tertiary centres to facilitate effective discharge and smooth transition between services. To provide expert clinical advice for the most appropriate timing and extent of neurorehabilitation required by individual patients, especially with regard to the use of tertiary services. To be a member of the neurorehabilitation pathways team actively developing Community Neurorehabilitation Services. Person Specification
Experience
Essential Criteria
Post-registration experience, working with neurological patients including acute/outpatients. Desirable Criteria
Previous experience as a clinical specialist physiotherapist (or equivalent) in neurorehabilitation. Skills
Essential Criteria
Exceptional team building and team working skills. Desirable Criteria
Good ability to lead on service development and transformation. Applicant Requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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