Specialist Physiotherapist (Neurology)

Job overview

Specialist  Physiotherapist Neurology (Stroke and Neuro-Rehab Rotational )  HOURS: Full Time  Band  6 As one of the UK’s largest and most passionate NHS Trusts, we can offer you more as a Physiotherapist.  Greater room to grow your skills and career. More than 8,000 experts to learn from.  And exhilarating, varied work that matters to more people.  As a key part of our big, passionate team, you’ll find it all here.  With close to 1m patients and award-winning services across North West London, we’re looking for a talented Physiotherapist to join us who’s wholehearted, not fainthearted.

Main duties of the job

We have an exciting opportunity to join the neurophysiotherapy rotations at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust.

The rotations include:

• The Regional Hyperacute Rehabilitation level 1 Unit serving patients with complex neurological disability based at NPH. •    A dynamic interdisciplinary Neurological Therapy Service for acute neurological inpatients.  Treating a wide variety of conditions including head injury, stroke, spinal injury, neuro-oncology MS & PD, primary base at NPH, further service at EH. •    Neuro outpatients based at NPH. •    An integrated stroke service including Hyper Acute stroke, Acute stroke rehab and Stroke ESD based at NPH with the ESD team covering into the local boroughs of Brent and Harrow.

Further opportunities exist to develop the rotations including neuro caseloads based at other trust sites.  As a multi-site trust, you will be required to work on all sites as part of your employment.

The post will allow you to develop your therapeutic, interdisciplinary and management skills.  There is a high level of clinical support from senior therapists with a wide range of experience and knowledge.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• As an autonomous practitioner to assess and treat own case load and provide a specialist neurology physiotherapy service to patients. •    To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), assessing and treating patients with complex neurological disability and maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient records. •    To work closely with the clinical leads for the inpatient and outpatient neurology physiotherapy service to support the development of the services.  •    To contribute to the management of all aspects of the Neurology Inpatient Physiotherapy Service. This includes prioritising and organising all referrals to the neurology service and allocation of patients.  •    To be a member of the team working as part of the rostered 7 day neuro service and respiratory on-call rota. •    To be responsible for the development and appraisal of the team members, including Band 5,4,2 and students.  •    To regularly provide formal and informal, on-going training and education to physiotherapy staff, other healthcare professions and students. •    To engage in own continued professional development (CPD) and service development.    •    To participate in clinical audit and research within the team.

The successful applicant will need to: •    Have experience as a band 5 in both acute and rehabilitation settings. •    Enjoy the excitement of new styles of working •    Have a dynamic approach to work and capable of working in a changing environment.