Highly Specialist Physiotherapist Parkinson's Disease Service
The closing date is 19 August 2025
Job summary
Derby Parkinson's team is an accredited Parkinson's Foundation Centre of Excellence providing holistic, integrated, multidisciplinary care for people with Parkinson's.
Due to retirement of the previous postholder, we are seeking a Band 7 Specialist Physiotherapist to lead the Physiotherapy team and to work as an integral part of this established and successful multidisciplinary service.
The Parkinson's team, based at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital, within the Specialist Rehabilitation department, includes consultants, specialist nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech & language therapists, clinical neuropsychologists, dietitian and technical instructors.
The team are forward thinking, and deliver evidence-based interventions to enable people to manage their condition, believing that continuous development is essential to maintaining our standards.
In addition to clinical work, the team are actively engaged in research, for both medical and therapy interventions and run national courses in multidisciplinary management of Parkinson's and Atypical Parkinson's.
Main duties of the job
- To be part of the Parkinson's disease multi disciplinary team within the Trust, working flexibly to provide a Physiotherapy service to patients with Parkinson's disease
- To collaborate with all members of the Parkinson's MDT in order to meet National and Trust organisational targets and standards
- To provide highly specialist Physiotherapy assessment and rehabilitation for patients with Parkinson's disease
- To provide highly specialist advice and support to other professionals regarding the management of Parkinson's patients throughout the Trust and Derbyshire/ East Staffordshire Community
- To be an integral part of the senior clinical team within the speciality and to represent Specialist Rehabilitation at management level concerning issues affecting the service
- To take a lead role in the operational management of the Physiotherapy team within this speciality
- To provide supervision and teaching for Physiotherapists, students and assistants working within the speciality
- To ensure that the Derby Parkinson's service is engaged in relevant research projects/ clinical trials and implement and evaluate new and innovative clinically effective treatment techniques in order to maintain Derby as a centre of excellence for Parkinson's Disease
- To lead and participate in the running of external courses for multidisciplinary professionals involved in the assessment and management of patients with Parkinson's Disease
Closing date: 19 August 2025Interview date: 2 September 2025
About us
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
- Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
- On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
- Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
- We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
- We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
- An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
- Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
- Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
- We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
- We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
- UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
Details
Date posted
05 August 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£47,810 to £54,710 a year pro rata pa
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
320-CDCS-3746
Job locations
Florence Nightingale Community Hospital
London Road
Derby
DE1 2QY
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Florence Nightingale Community Hospital
London Road
Derby
DE1 2QY
Employer's website
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