Rehabilitation Coordinator

Job summary

Are you a Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional interested in working in the field of specialist rehabilitation?

The Cheshire and Merseyside Rehabilitation Network (CMRN) is looking for a proactive and suitably experienced RGN or AHP to join our dynamic team as a Rehabilitation Coordinator. You will join a well-established Rehabilitation Coordination Service Team and be responsible for a designated caseload of highly complex rehabilitation patients, working closely with the wider specialist rehabilitation multi-disciplinary team, to provide a comprehensive, evidence based, patient centred service. You will play a key role in supporting patient's discharge, working closely with external agencies including health care, social care, third sector and voluntary providers. With a clinical background, this role as a Rehabilitation Coordinator will provide you with the opportunity to further expand knowledge and skills outside of a direct clinically facing role, including enhanced communication, organisational and planning skills working flexibly and autonomously in managing your own caseload whilst still retaining the role as a key member of the rehabilitation multidisciplinary team. You will be required to act as part of the Single Point of Contact for referrals into the network and undertake assessment, providing expert clinical advice on the most appropriate rehabilitation pathway.

Main duties of the job

The CMRN is a unique collaborative integrated pathway delivered across multiple organisations, hyper-acute, spoke, extended and community services, providing specialist rehabilitation to patients who have suffered traumatic injury or illness dependent on need and not diagnosis.

The post will be primarily based at The Walton Centre.

There may be a requirement to work across and support our other network units based on Broadgreen, St Helens or Wiral sites.

As a Rehabilitation Co-ordination you will play a pivotal role within the multi-disciplinary team, acting as a key worker to a designated caseload and advocate for patients, families and carers to navigate them through their rehabilitation pathway.

As a Rehabilitation Co-ordinator you will provide support for patients with highly complex rehabilitation needs and their families/carers and you will have excellent negotiation and persuasive motivational skills to manage complex situations and difficult communications.

You will have excellent communication skills as liaison with referrers, and working closely with the multidisciplinary team including Consultants, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals is an integral part of the role.

The post holder will be required to act as part of the Single Point of Contact for referrals into the Rehabilitation Network and undertake assessment, providing expert clinical advice on the most appropriate rehabilitation pathway.

Job responsibilities

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust is the only NHS trust to hold dual accreditation for the Investors in People. We invest in people and we invest in wellbeing standards and have been awarded Gold status for both. The Walton Centre is a leader in the treatment and care of neurology and neurosurgery, placing the patient and their family at the heart of everything we do. As the only specialist hospital trust in the UK dedicated to providing comprehensive neurology, neurosurgery, spinal and pain management services we are proud to be rated as an Outstanding Trust by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and champion change throughout the field of neuroscience. Originally formed in 1992, the Trust received Foundation Trust status in 2009.

With around 1,450 staff, The Walton Centre treats more than 127,000 outpatients and 18,000 inpatients each year. We have leading specialists and incredibly dedicated staff delivering excellent clinical outcomes for brain, spinal and neurological care nationally and internationally. Teams across our site in Fazakerley, Liverpool, offer a world-class service in diagnosing and treating injuries and illnesses affecting the brain, spine and peripheral nerves and muscles, and in supporting people suffering from a wide range of long-term neurological conditions.