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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Description
Please review the attached job description and person specification for an overview of the full role and responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Description
Please review the attached job description and person specification for an overview of the full role and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing or AHP degree or equivalent relevant professional qualification
- NMC/HPC Registration
- Post Graduate training within Rehabilitation at specialist level
Desirable
- Post graduate rehabilitation qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post graduate experience in Rehabilitation at specialist level
- Previous extensive experience of treating patients with neurological and or multiple conditions
- Ability to priortise workload
- Ability to demonstrate effective team working within a multi-agency/network framework and working in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team
- Clinically relevant experience in neurology or trauma specialties within a rehabilitation setting
- Managing and interpreting data
- Evidence based and experience of reflective practice
- Understanding the Mental Health Act 2007 and mental Capacity Act
- Understanding of clinical audit and research practices relevant to rehabilitation
Desirable
- Participation in change management
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- To have highly developed personal skills
- To be able to communicate in an effective and persuasive manner at all times even under pressure
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentational skills
- To be able to develop reports, protocols and policies
- Ability to use assessment skills effectively
- Ability to motivate patients and staff
- High level of organizational skills
- Ability to manage competing and at times competing demands
- To manage conflicting and complex information
- To have a flexible approach to work ensuring minimum levels of service provision are maintained
- Ability to meet the physical and travel requirements of the job role
- Must be able to work as an autonomous practitioner working flexibly across 7 days.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nursing or AHP degree or equivalent relevant professional qualification
- NMC/HPC Registration
- Post Graduate training within Rehabilitation at specialist level
Desirable
- Post graduate rehabilitation qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post graduate experience in Rehabilitation at specialist level
- Previous extensive experience of treating patients with neurological and or multiple conditions
- Ability to priortise workload
- Ability to demonstrate effective team working within a multi-agency/network framework and working in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team
- Clinically relevant experience in neurology or trauma specialties within a rehabilitation setting
- Managing and interpreting data
- Evidence based and experience of reflective practice
- Understanding the Mental Health Act 2007 and mental Capacity Act
- Understanding of clinical audit and research practices relevant to rehabilitation
Desirable
- Participation in change management
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- To have highly developed personal skills
- To be able to communicate in an effective and persuasive manner at all times even under pressure
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentational skills
- To be able to develop reports, protocols and policies
- Ability to use assessment skills effectively
- Ability to motivate patients and staff
- High level of organizational skills
- Ability to manage competing and at times competing demands
- To manage conflicting and complex information
- To have a flexible approach to work ensuring minimum levels of service provision are maintained
- Ability to meet the physical and travel requirements of the job role
- Must be able to work as an autonomous practitioner working flexibly across 7 days.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
