Highly Specialist Physiotherapist, Neurology

This is your chance to thrive as you rotate across Hyper-Acute Stroke, Acute stroke rehab and Acute neuro medical and trauma rehab. It's the ideal role for a Band 7 or an experienced Band 6 physiotherapist who wants to broaden their horizons, develop their skills and work to build the profile of neuro therapy across North West London.
The service covers:
· A 16 bedded hyper-acute Stroke Unit and a 36 bedded stroke rehabilitation ward. These both have an established interdisciplinary team approach and require the applicant to use innovative thinking and strong working relationships and excellent clinical skills to maintain and enhance high standards of stroke care.
· Potential to include the Neuro Outpatient service, Stroke Early Supported Discharge Team and Ealing Hospital Acute neuro therapy team., We're looking for an HCPC-registered Band 7 physiotherapist who has experience gained in community outpatient, acute and rehab in-patient services. In this key role in our teaching Trust, you'll also need experience of supervising others in their day-to-day role. As you'll get the chance to rotate, we'd expect to see evidence of the clinical application of core therapy and reasoning skills - as well as some knowledge of wide-ranging assessments and interventions for patients with varied neurological conditions. Developmental positions will be considered starting at a band 6 level and progressing to a band 7 position once key competencies are met., 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
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We promote the wellbeing and safety of all our patients and carers by acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately, according to the standards determined by our policy and procedures. All posts working with vulnerable groups will be subject to an enhanced criminal records check upon appointment and staff will need to give their consent for the Trust to receive regular updates on their criminal records status throughout their employment.
Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. After the closing date we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Our employment checking processes require that all shortlisted applicants provide the contact details of their current HR Department. If shortlisted you will be sent an email reminder to present the contact details of your HR Department at the interview.
Please note the Trust uses identity checking software for verifying the authenticity of identity documents provided by candidates.
As part of our commitment to the Equality and Diversity at LNWUH, we are encouraging applications from BME (Black ,Minority Ethnic) candidates as we seek to ensure our workforce structures are representative of the diversity of the communities we serve.

LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you., We've one big team. And countless possibilities. That's why we're looking for a Band 7 physiotherapist who's as inspired by change, ambitious and determined to succeed as we are.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
+ Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
+ St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
+ Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
+ Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
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We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff., Being one of the UK's largest NHS Trusts has its challenges. And our 8,000-strong team expertly and wholeheartedly rise to each one. As a Highly Specialist Physiotherapist, you'll add your therapy skills to this proud heritage as you help to deliver world-class healthcare across North West London. With a range of hospitals, community services and offices, there's nothing our diverse team can't do - from offering you a broader, deeper pool of talent to learn from, to the exposure to develop new skills and a seamless career journey across a truly innovative Trust., You'll manage service development projects across the Adult Therapies department, as well as support the wider MDT to continue to develop a bar-raising stroke service. We're big on collaboration. That means you'll get to share expertise, advice and new ideas on how to improve the experience for our many, many patients., London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
+ Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
+ St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
+ Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
+ Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.