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Main area Physiotherapy Grade NHS AfC : Band 8a Contract 9 months (Fixed term contract for Maternity leave : 9months) Hours

• Full time

37.5 hours per week (Flexible working hours will be considered) Job ref 391-NMUH-7105666

Employer Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site North Middlesex Hospital Town Edmonton Salary £59,490 - £66,239 Inclusive of Outer London Weighting Salary period Yearly Closing 19 / 06 / 2025 23 : 59

Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist : Acute Stroke Unit and Neurology

NHS AfC : Band 8a

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity to cover the Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist for Acute Stroke Unit / Neuro Outliers team at North Middlesex Hospital. This post is for a 9month fixed term contract to cover a maternity leave.

This opportunity would be suitable for any Specialist Neuro Band 7 Physiotherapists or existing Band 8a Neuro therapists interested in the role.

The North Middlesex Hospital is part of the wider group Royal Free London and has an Acute Stroke Unit (ASU). The team also cover Stroke and Neuro outliers across the hospital.

The successful post holder would work together with the Clinical Lead ASU / Neuro OT in managing the ASU and Stroke team, by providing both clinical specialist input and operational input into the running of the team. As an 8a, the post holder would also be expected to deputise for the Head of Physiotherapy when necessary.

Main duties of the job

To manage the Multi-professional therapy and Physiotherapy input to the Acute Stroke Unit Service, Neuro-Outlier service, NMUH and alongside the NMUH Physiotherapy Manager for inpatients engage in planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the service, participating in the design and implementation of physiotherapy and multidisciplinary research, audit and policy.

You will perform the role of Clinical Lead for Neurorehabilitation Trust wide and within the ASU. Your specialist patient population will be Medical Brian Injury (MBI) and neuro-outliers .

To perform expert physiotherapy assessment and design management programmes for patients presenting with highly complex acute and chronic neurological and neuromuscular disease, performing the role to the highest degree of autonomy.

To provide specialist support and advice to physiotherapy colleagues across the NCL sector regarding neuro-rehabilitative management as well as influencing national theory and practice through your involvement in research and other postgraduate work.

To initiate specialist practice, for example, outpatient clinics / spasticity management clinics, or work normally performed by medical personnel once appropriate protocols or training has been agreed.

To educate and train Senior and Junior grade physiotherapists, Physiotherapy Technicians, Assistants, students and other healthcare professionals in the physiotherapy management of acute stroke patients.

Working for our organisation

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link : https : / / www.northmid.nhs.uk /

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To manage the Multi-professional therapy and Physiotherapy input to the Acute Stroke Unit Service and Neuro-Outlier service at NMUH and alongside the NMUH Physiotherapy Manager for inpatients engage in planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the service, participating in the design and implementation of physiotherapy and multidisciplinary research, audit and policy. You will also be responsible for the initiation and development of physiotherapy and multi-professional Acute Stroke practice within NMUH and across the Trust.

To engage in the planning, co-ordination, delivery and evaluation of the acute stroke / neurology service, participating in the design and implementation of physiotherapy / multidisciplinary research, audit and policy.

To be responsible for the initiation and development of physiotherapy and multi-professional Acute Stroke practice within ASU and the wider NMUH Trust.

To perform expert physiotherapy assessment and design management programmes for patients presenting with highly complex acute and chronic neurological and neuromuscular disease, performing the role to the highest degree of autonomy.

To act as a source of expertise on the physiotherapy management of neurological and neuromuscular disease, providing advice to consultant physicians, patients, carers, all grades of physiotherapists, other health care professionals, general practitioners, and social services.

To provide specialist support and advice to physiotherapy colleagues across the NCL sector regarding neuro-rehabilitative management as well as influencing national theory and practice through your involvement in research and other postgraduate work.

To initiate specialist practice, for example, outpatient clinics / spasticity management clinics, or interventions normally performed by medical personnel once appropriate protocols or training has been agreed.

To educate and train Senior and Junior grade physiotherapists, Physiotherapy Technicians, Assistants, undergraduate and adaptation students, other healthcare professionals in the physiotherapy management of acute stroke patients.

As part of your extended role, you will be a non-medical prescriber for the Neuro rehabilitation service of the North Middlesex University Hospital. As a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist for the Acute Stroke and Neurology services, you will use advanced assessment skills, knowledge and complex decision-making processes to manage patients presenting with neuropathic pain and spasticity management.

Person specification

Education & professional Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy
• Registration with the Health Professions Council
• Undertaking higher degree relevant to the area of practice.
• Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• Member of relevant Clinical Interest Group.

Royal Free World Class Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Experience

• Minimum 5 years post registration experience, 2 years at band 7 level in Neurology including extensive Junior and band 6 rotations
• Evidence of dedicated clinical practice and professional development in the area of stroke care / neurology.
• Extensive experience of organising, writing and delivering in-service training programmes.
• Extensive experience of supervising Junior and non-qualified staff, including participation in personal development reviews.
• Experience of clinical governance initiatives
• Experience across a range of NHS sectors e.g. Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Community Services
• Experience of being involved in research

Skills and Aptitudes

• Able to communicate highly complex and sensitive information in written, verbal and presentational form to patients, staff and senior managers within the Trust and across external organisations
• Skilled in leading, motivating and influencing a team of physiotherapists across grades as well as Consultants, service managers and the wider MDT
• Highly developed problem-solving skills for highly complex situations which may include clinical or organizational issues
• Highly developed clinical reasoning skills for complex neurology patients
• Able to assimilate and analyse complex information
• Able to identify when to seek appropriate support concerning managerial, professional and organizational issues
• Highly skills ability and competency in using arrange of therapeutic skills including, but not limited to various manual handling techniques, exercise therapy, respiratory therapy and equipment (IPPB, cough assist), splinting and personal hygiene
• Able to identify your own and staff training needs
• Well developed counselling and advocacy skills to support staff, patients and carers
• Able to employ motivational and influential skills with staff, patients, carers and other professionals
• Thorough knowledge of current NHS initiatives within Stroke and neurology
• Knowledge of Clinical governance, Stroke guidelines and its application to North Middlesex Stroke Service
• Knowledge of Physiotherapy professional issues
• Extensive knowledge of a variety of physiotherapy concepts and current best practice within Stroke and neurology
• Extensive knowledge and skills of neurological conditions, pathologies and current medical management of such conditions
• Knowledge of other medical conditions which you may encounter including but not limited to, respiratory, Orthopaedic and complex medical conditions
• Extensive knowledge of outcome measure tools
• Knowledge of the audit process and its uses

Personal Qualities & attributes

• Compassionate and Caring nature
• Motivated and able to motivate others
• Able to work efficiently under pressure

Others

• Willingness to work on any site as service requirements dictate.
• Dedication to staff development and the promotion and progression of the Physiotherapy profession
• Dedicated to holistic patient management.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone / tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

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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.

Name Jessie Horne Job title Clinical and Professional Lead for Physiotherapy Email address [emailprotected] Telephone number 02088872405 Additional information

Please note, only applicants with relevant clinical experience will be considered for shortlisting

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