Specialist Neurophysiotherapist

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

JOB OVERVIEW

We are looking for an enthusiastic physiotherapist to join our neurophysiotherapy rotation at Epsom General Hospital. The successful candidate will rotate across a variety of clinical areas including inpatient care on our acute stroke unit and in-patient rehabilitation unit as well as community rehabilitation services in our Stroke Supported Discharge and community neuro-rehabilitation services.
This is an exciting opportunity to further develop your clinical skills in neurology and complex conditions, within a friendly and supportive team.
CPD is actively encouraged both within service provision and with externally funded courses. Staff within each team are supervised by senior physiotherapy clinicians supporting staff to achieve learning outcomes within each speciality. There are in-service training within teams and a joint therapy seminar in which you will participate. Service development is actively encouraged and also peer support through regular team meetings.
There is a requirement for all acute physiotherapy staff to participate in the respiratory on call evening and weekend rotas.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Audit experience
• Research participation
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

• To assess and treat own specialist caseload of neurological patients and maintain associated records as an autonomous practitioner.
• To supervise less experienced physiotherapists and students within this speciality.
• To feed back and receive guidance from Band 7 / Therapies Clinical Manager / Clinical Specialist on a frequent basis.
• To effectively manage patients from admission, through their in-patient stage and plan ongoing therapy once discharged, including offering telephone advice to patients.
• To effectively manage patients’ neurophysiotherapy needs in the community.
• To work effectively as part of MDT delivering neurorehabilitation services in acute and community settings.
• To participate in respiratory on-call rota at Epsom General Hospital

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Details of what this role entails are enclosed in the additional information attached under Job Description. There is also specific skills some of which are essential for this post. Please refer to the additional information for Person Specification attached.