Specialist Stroke Physiotherapist

Employer: Whittington Health NHS Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Lordship Lane Primary Care Centre

Town: London

Salary: £42,939 - £50,697 Per Annum inclusive of HCAS

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 18/03/:59

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic individual to join our Community Stroke Team. The team works with adults of all ages and is based on achieving client-centred goals in a time-orientated way, so experience in assessing and working with older people and with people with physical disabilities (stroke) is essential.

You will gain further experience in working with a range of other professionals and services. You will be joining a supportive group of colleagues, with regular in-service and professional forums, individual supervision, and a personal development plan that is regularly updated.

Main duties of the job

1. To deliver patient care based on principles of best practice, achievable through direct patient contact or via supervision.
2. To carry out specialist, comprehensive assessments of patients with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills to formulate individualised management and treatment plans.
3. To provide specialised physiotherapy interventions at home or in a community setting as required, collaborating with colleagues in the community and secondary care health professionals to promote continuity of care.
4. To identify own learning needs related to clinical knowledge and skills in the management of patients following stroke and with long-term neurological conditions.
5. To support in the delivery of multidisciplinary education and training.
6. To access further education programmes to develop knowledge and skills, and to share learning with the wider team.
7. To support in the monitoring of the effectiveness of the community therapy service through the collation of data for ongoing audit.
8. Contribute to the evaluation of research findings and disseminate them appropriately, including presentations at study days or conferences.
9. To adhere to Whittington Health policy and procedures at all times.
10. To be aware of one's own continuous professional development needs and maintain an annual personal development plan.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To provide high-quality effective physiotherapy assessment and treatment/management programmes for adults presenting with stroke in Haringey, who require a community-based service. To use highly specialist physiotherapy knowledge and skills to manage own complex caseload, as an autonomous practitioner.
2. To act as a source of expertise on stroke, neurological conditions, and rehabilitation; providing advice to patients, carers, all grades of physiotherapists, other health care professionals, consultants, general practitioners, and social services.
3. To support the use of evidence-based practice within the service, incorporating national guidelines e.g. stroke strategy into practice.

Person specification Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy
• Registration with the Health Professions Council
• Attendance on courses related to Neurological Physiotherapy e.g. Basic Bobath course
• Member of the CSP and relevant Clinical Interest group e.g. ACPIN

Skills and Abilities

• Essential IT skills, including Word and PowerPoint

Experience

• Experience of running groups
• Experience of organising, writing, and delivering in-service training programmes
• Experience of involvement in clinical governance/service improvement initiatives
• Experience of taking physiotherapy students on clinical practice placements
• Experience of working with the voluntary sector
• Experience of supervising junior and non-qualified staff, including participation in personal development reviews

Knowledge

• Knowledge of current NHS priorities and policy
• Understanding of clinical governance activity and its application to physiotherapy services and practice.
• Knowledge of Physiotherapy professional issues.
• Knowledge of the stroke strategy, and the NSF for long-term conditions and related frameworks
• Knowledge of other medical conditions which you may encounter including, but not exclusively, respiratory, orthopaedics, and conditions of old age
• Evidence of attendance of post-graduate training related to the post
• Knowledge of the audit cycle and its uses.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures, and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi-Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct.

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.