Job summary
We are recruiting a Senior Neurological Therapist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will be a Physiotherapist with a passion to provide care to patients with neurological deficits.
This role provides specialist therapy input and management to patients with a neurological diagnosis throughout the acute wards and stroke unit. We have ambition to expand the role to include community stroke rehab in partnership with our community colleagues.
We offer excellent opportunities for new and experienced band 6's wanting to enhance their skills. We would also consider this role as a band 5 to 6 development post. We offer strong professional leadership and development opportunities.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the post include assessment and treatment of stroke and neurological patients within the wards, supervision and mentoring of non-qualified staff and students, taking part in in-service training, and taking a role in service improvement projects.
You will be contributing to the development of the stroke unit and neurological pathways through the hospital to ensure quality and equity of provision across all neurological diagnoses. You will primarily be based on the stroke unit with some outreach to other acute wards as needed.
You will have ability to travel independently across trust sites and be able to carry out weekend working.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
- HCPC registration
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Knowledge of and adherence to Professional Body's Code of Conduct, Standards, Guidelines and Ethics
Desirable
- Membership of appropriate special interest group
- Practice placement educator
Previous Experience
Essential
- Previous relevant NHS post graduate experience
- Experience treating patients with Neurological impairments
- Experience of integrated working
- Experience of Multi Disciplinary Team working
- Evidence of clinical reasoning and prioritisation
- Knowledge and implementation of standardised assessment tools and outcome measures related to profession and core skills
- Knowledge of advanced anatomy and physiology related to clinical area
- Post qualification experience of working with patients within the acute care setting
- CPD related to working with people who have neurological impairment
- Experience of supervising junior members of staff/ occupational therapy students
- Experience of training/ development of others
Desirable
- Experience of co-ordinating team workload
- Evidence of completion of Audit projects
- Experience of advanced skills in the complex assessment of activities of daily living
- Ability to carry out service development and improvement
Skills
Essential
- Identify own development needs and set Personal Development objectives
- Ability to work autonomously
- Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
- Understanding of interdisciplinary issues and ability to work efficiently and effectively in an interdisciplinary team
- Clear, concise and ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences; to utilise a variety of mediums and approaches
- Ability to carry out Service Development & Improvement
- Ability to reference and implement NSF/NICE and other relevant guidelines/Standards
- A broad knowledge of current best evidence based practice in Neurological Therapy.
- Ability to educate individual patients, relatives or carers about the nature of their condition and self-management techniques
- Ability to teach and present physiotherapy topics to qualified and non/qualified staff and other health care professions, individually or in groups.
- Excellent verbal and written skills
Desirable
- Demonstration of clinical leadership e.g. the ability to inspire, motivate and empower teams
- Ability to take on a keyworker role
- Research and audit skills to evaluate and influence practice
- Information Technology including E-mail, Word, Excel & Power Point, electronic patient records
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to establish rapport with patients and other Healthcare professionals
- Ability to reflect on practice
- Able to influence, guide, teach, motivate and lead others
- Developed Clinical problem solving ability
- Time Management and organisational skills
- Analytical skills
- Evidence of using initiative
- Evidence of being self-motivated
- Ability to work under pressure
- Flexibility of approach to changes in service needs
- The physical capabilities to manage patients with acute neurological disability on the wards
- A commitment to professional development of self and other therapists
Other Requirements
Essential
- Willingness to uphold the Trust's values
- Ability to travel easily between trust sites
- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
- Role model our Trust values every day
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
- HCPC registration
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Knowledge of and adherence to Professional Body's Code of Conduct, Standards, Guidelines and Ethics
Desirable
- Membership of appropriate special interest group
- Practice placement educator
Previous Experience
Essential
- Previous relevant NHS post graduate experience
- Experience treating patients with Neurological impairments
- Experience of integrated working
- Experience of Multi Disciplinary Team working
- Evidence of clinical reasoning and prioritisation
- Knowledge and implementation of standardised assessment tools and outcome measures related to profession and core skills
- Knowledge of advanced anatomy and physiology related to clinical area
- Post qualification experience of working with patients within the acute care setting
- CPD related to working with people who have neurological impairment
- Experience of supervising junior members of staff/ occupational therapy students
- Experience of training/ development of others
Desirable
- Experience of co-ordinating team workload
- Evidence of completion of Audit projects
- Experience of advanced skills in the complex assessment of activities of daily living
- Ability to carry out service development and improvement
Skills
Essential
- Identify own development needs and set Personal Development objectives
- Ability to work autonomously
- Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
- Understanding of interdisciplinary issues and ability to work efficiently and effectively in an interdisciplinary team
- Clear, concise and ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences; to utilise a variety of mediums and approaches
- Ability to carry out Service Development & Improvement
- Ability to reference and implement NSF/NICE and other relevant guidelines/Standards
- A broad knowledge of current best evidence based practice in Neurological Therapy.
- Ability to educate individual patients, relatives or carers about the nature of their condition and self-management techniques
- Ability to teach and present physiotherapy topics to qualified and non/qualified staff and other health care professions, individually or in groups.
- Excellent verbal and written skills
Desirable
- Demonstration of clinical leadership e.g. the ability to inspire, motivate and empower teams
- Ability to take on a keyworker role
- Research and audit skills to evaluate and influence practice
- Information Technology including E-mail, Word, Excel & Power Point, electronic patient records
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to establish rapport with patients and other Healthcare professionals
- Ability to reflect on practice
- Able to influence, guide, teach, motivate and lead others
- Developed Clinical problem solving ability
- Time Management and organisational skills
- Analytical skills
- Evidence of using initiative
- Evidence of being self-motivated
- Ability to work under pressure
- Flexibility of approach to changes in service needs
- The physical capabilities to manage patients with acute neurological disability on the wards
- A commitment to professional development of self and other therapists
Other Requirements
Essential
- Willingness to uphold the Trust's values
- Ability to travel easily between trust sites
- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
- Role model our Trust values every day
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
