Senior Physiotherapist Neurology

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Physiotherapist with relevant experience in the field of stroke, to support the provision and development of our services to the early supported discharge team for stroke. There is also a requirement to support the provision of 7-day services to the stroke unit on a rota basis.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly and successful team; together we are proud to deliver the highest standards of clinical quality, patient care and staff experience.

Your happiness at work is incredibly important to us, and hence, we are committed to supporting your health and wellbeing. Our proud to CARE values and Leading the Chesterfield Way behaviours are firmly embedded across the Trust, whilst our focus on proudly ‘being you’ supports our hospital to be a great place to work.

Main duties of the job

Applicants will be able to evidence post-graduate experience in the field of stroke rehabilitation with some experience of community-based intervention. Applicants will be responsible, along with the rest of the senior team, for supervising more junior physiotherapists, TI’s and assistants based within the team.

Emma Shaddock one of the Neurology team leads says this “If you are a physiotherapist with an interest in stroke and supporting patients through their rehabilitation journey and wish to join our passionate and friendly team, we’d love to hear from you!”

Hours will be worked to support the 7-day provision of inpatient stroke care and applicants will be expected to have a flexible approach to this.

The Trust provides clinical placements for students from Sheffield and Nottingham and applicants will have experience of supporting students on undergraduate placements.

The Trust is committed to supporting and developing staff through appraisals and the supervision process. Senior staff have individual supervision and peer support as well as access to training.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full duties and requirements of this post please refer to the job description and the person specification.

Applicants must be available for a face-to-face interview at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

For further information, an informal discussion, or to arrange a visit, please contact Emma Shaddock or Alan Ward on 01246 512173

This post will require a Disclosure & Barring Service check.

Please note that successful external candidates will be required to pay for their own DBS Disclosure. The cost will be deducted from the first salary payment. Further details of the Disclosure and Barring Service check will be confirmed upon offer of employment.