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. With a range of hospitals, community services and offices, there's nothing our diverse team can't do - from offering you a broader, deeper pool of talent to learn from, to the exposure to develop new skills and a seamless career journey across a truly innovative Trust.

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.

The service covers:

A 16 bedded hyper-acute Stroke Unit and a 36 bedded stroke rehabilitation ward. These both have an established interdisciplinary team approach and require the applicant to use innovative thinking and strong working relationships and excellent clinical skills to maintain and enhance high standards of stroke care.

Potential to include the Neuro Outpatient service, Stroke Early Supported Discharge Team and Ealing Hospital Acute neuro therapy team.

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. We're big on collaboration. That means you'll get to share expertise, advice and new ideas on how to improve the experience for our many, 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. Developmental positions will be considered starting at a band 6 level and progressing to a band 7 position once key competencies are met.

We've one big team. And countless possibilities. That's why we're looking for a Band 7 physiotherapist who's as inspired by change, ambitious and determined to succeed as we are.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A& E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Summary of the role

As an autonomous practitioner to assess and treat own case load 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 disability 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 there are other band 7 neurology physiotherapy opportunities in the trust that can be included into the rotation on consultation with the rotational cohort, these could possibly include Neuro Outpatients, Stroke ESD and Ealing Hospital.

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. This includes prioritising and organising all referrals to the neurology service and allocation of patients.

To be responsible for the development and appraisal of the team members, including Band 6,5,4,2 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 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

Essential

• MSc or BSc in physio
• HCPC

Desirable

• post qualification neuro courses
• ACPIN

Experience

Essential

• Min 2-3 years band 6 neuro experience
• At least band 5 experience in NHS
• Supervision of junior team members
• Resp on-call

Desirable

• teaching on IST
• audit or service development
• attendance / membership of wider interest groups - FND/HASU ...
• Community experience

Skills

Essential

• High standard communication at MDT level
• Evidence of clinical reasoning / handling
• experience of adjuncts to neuro e.g. splinting, FES

Desirable

• Treatment or management of patients with less common conditions - MND, NMO ...

Employer details

Employer name

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Northwick Park Hospital

Watford Road, Harrow

HA1 3UJ

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