Jobs in Sudbury, greater london, united kingdom

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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

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• MSc or BSc in physio
• HCPC

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