Highly Specialist Physiotherapist, Neurology
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Being one of the UK's largest NHS Trusts has its challenges. And our 8,000-strong team expertly and wholeheartedly rise to each one. As a Highly Specialist Physiotherapist, you'll add your therapy skills to this proud heritage as you help to deliver world-class healthcare across North West London. This is your chance to thrive as you rotate across Hyper-Acute Stroke, Acute stroke rehab and Acute neuro medical and trauma rehab. It's the ideal role for a Band 7 or an experienced Band 6 physiotherapist who wants to broaden their horizons, develop their skills and work to build the profile of neuro therapy across North West London. Main duties of the job
You'll manage service development projects across the Adult Therapies department, as well as support the wider MDT to continue to develop a bar-raising stroke service. That means you'll get to share expertise, advice and new ideas on how to improve the experience for our many patients. We're looking for an HCPC-registered Band 7 physiotherapist who has experience gained in community outpatient, acute and rehab in-patient services. In this key role in our teaching Trust, you'll also need experience of supervising others in their day-to-day role. As you'll get the chance to rotate, we'd expect to see evidence of the clinical application of core therapy and reasoning skills - as well as some knowledge of wide-ranging assessments and interventions for patients with varied neurological conditions. Job responsibilities
Summary of the role As an autonomous practitioner, you will assess and treat your own caseload and provide a highly specialist neurology physiotherapy service to patients. To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), assessing and treating patients with highly complex neurological disabilities and maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient records. To work jointly with other Band 7 Physiotherapists to clinically lead the inpatient neurological physiotherapy service including Stroke and acute neuro medical caseload. To work closely with the cross-site Deputy Director of Therapies and the Clinical Therapy Lead for Neurology to support the development of the Neurology Physiotherapy Service. To contribute to the management of all aspects of the Neurology Physiotherapy Service, including prioritising and organising all referrals to the neurology service and allocation of patients. To be responsible for the development and appraisal of team members, including Band 6, 5, 4, 2 and students. To regularly provide formal and informal, ongoing training and education to physiotherapy staff, other healthcare professionals, and students. To engage in your continued professional development (CPD) and service development. To take a lead on clinical audit within the team and undertake research. To participate in the weekend working rota (1 in 5 weekends) and the respiratory on-call rota. Person Specification
Qualifications
MSc or BSc in physiotherapy HCPC registration ACPIN membership Experience
Minimum 2-3 years of Band 6 neuro experience At least Band 5 experience in the NHS Supervision of junior team members Experience in respiratory on-call Teaching on IST Attendance/membership of wider interest groups (e.g., FND/HASU) Community experience Skills
High standard communication at MDT level Evidence of clinical reasoning/handling Experience of adjuncts to neuro (e.g., splinting, FES) Treatment or management of patients with less common conditions (e.g., MND, NMO) Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Salary: £51,883 to £58,544 per annum including HCAS
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London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Being one of the UK's largest NHS Trusts has its challenges. And our 8,000-strong team expertly and wholeheartedly rise to each one. As a Highly Specialist Physiotherapist, you'll add your therapy skills to this proud heritage as you help to deliver world-class healthcare across North West London. This is your chance to thrive as you rotate across Hyper-Acute Stroke, Acute stroke rehab and Acute neuro medical and trauma rehab. It's the ideal role for a Band 7 or an experienced Band 6 physiotherapist who wants to broaden their horizons, develop their skills and work to build the profile of neuro therapy across North West London. Main duties of the job
You'll manage service development projects across the Adult Therapies department, as well as support the wider MDT to continue to develop a bar-raising stroke service. That means you'll get to share expertise, advice and new ideas on how to improve the experience for our many patients. We're looking for an HCPC-registered Band 7 physiotherapist who has experience gained in community outpatient, acute and rehab in-patient services. In this key role in our teaching Trust, you'll also need experience of supervising others in their day-to-day role. As you'll get the chance to rotate, we'd expect to see evidence of the clinical application of core therapy and reasoning skills - as well as some knowledge of wide-ranging assessments and interventions for patients with varied neurological conditions. Job responsibilities
Summary of the role As an autonomous practitioner, you will assess and treat your own caseload and provide a highly specialist neurology physiotherapy service to patients. To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), assessing and treating patients with highly complex neurological disabilities and maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient records. To work jointly with other Band 7 Physiotherapists to clinically lead the inpatient neurological physiotherapy service including Stroke and acute neuro medical caseload. To work closely with the cross-site Deputy Director of Therapies and the Clinical Therapy Lead for Neurology to support the development of the Neurology Physiotherapy Service. To contribute to the management of all aspects of the Neurology Physiotherapy Service, including prioritising and organising all referrals to the neurology service and allocation of patients. To be responsible for the development and appraisal of team members, including Band 6, 5, 4, 2 and students. To regularly provide formal and informal, ongoing training and education to physiotherapy staff, other healthcare professionals, and students. To engage in your continued professional development (CPD) and service development. To take a lead on clinical audit within the team and undertake research. To participate in the weekend working rota (1 in 5 weekends) and the respiratory on-call rota. Person Specification
Qualifications
MSc or BSc in physiotherapy HCPC registration ACPIN membership Experience
Minimum 2-3 years of Band 6 neuro experience At least Band 5 experience in the NHS Supervision of junior team members Experience in respiratory on-call Teaching on IST Attendance/membership of wider interest groups (e.g., FND/HASU) Community experience Skills
High standard communication at MDT level Evidence of clinical reasoning/handling Experience of adjuncts to neuro (e.g., splinting, FES) Treatment or management of patients with less common conditions (e.g., MND, NMO) Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Salary: £51,883 to £58,544 per annum including HCAS
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