Specialist Physiotherapist

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Bury St Edmunds; Vor Ort; GBP 40.000 - 48.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist to join the Suffolk Stroke Early Supported Discharge (ESD) Team. The role involves home and community-based rehabilitation for stroke survivors, with a focus on independence and evidence-based practice.

You will work within an interdisciplinary team across Suffolk, travel across the county, and provide supervision to junior staff and Rehabilitation Assistants.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor of Physiotherapy and HCPC registration are essential.
• Post-registration education and MSc in Physiotherapy are desirable.
• Experience with stroke or neuro-rehabilitation is advantageous.
• Experience supervising rehabilitation assistants is beneficial.

Aufgaben

• Assess and treat stroke patients in home and community settings.
• Develop and monitor rehabilitation care plans with supervision to staff.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to ensure seamless patient care.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement and data collection.

Kenntnisse

Communication skills

Independent working

Team collaboration

Clinical reasoning

Time management

Ausbildung

Bachelor of Physiotherapy

MSc Physiotherapy

HCPC registration

Post-registration education

Clinical Fieldwork Educator’s Course

Specialist stroke courses

Professional accreditation group

Jobbeschreibung

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist to join our Suffolk Stroke Early Supported Discharge (ESD) Team. The Stroke Early Supported Discharge service provides specialist individualised stroke rehabilitation, in order to support stroke patients and their carers' in the first 6 weeks of discharge from hospital to home. We are looking for a Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist for a full-time, permanent position. We work as an interdisciplinary team, which operates 7 days a week. The interdisciplinary team consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Stroke Specialist Nurse, Clinical Neuropsychologist and Rehabilitation Assistants.

Main duties of the job

Working across patients' homes and community settings, you will support stroke survivors to achieve maximum independence and rehabilitation potential through comprehensive assessment, treatment and delivery of evidence-based interventions, whilst outlining rehabilitation care plans for the Rehabilitation Assistants to carry out with supervision. You will work collaboratively across the Suffolk Stroke Pathway to ensure seamless transitions from acute hospital care into community services, manage patients with complex needs, provide supervision and support to junior staff and students, and contribute to service development, quality improvement and data collection across the service. This post would allow you to develop your knowledge and skills in the area of specialist stroke rehabilitation with support from both the Team Leader and the wider inter-disciplinary teams. There will be opportunities for professional development and supervision. The successful candidate will have access to both the Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich offices and will be expected to travel across the whole of the county of Suffolk.

About us

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the full job description and person specification attached for the full details of this job role.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelor of Physiotherapy
• M.Sc. Physiotherapy
• Health & Care Professions Council registration (HCPC)
• Evidence of post registration education.
• Clinical fieldwork Educator's Course.
• Attendance at specialist stroke/neuro courses.
• Member of relevant specialist interest group

Experience & Knowledge

• Pre- or post-graduate experience working within stroke/neuro.
• Previous experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience of working in a community or rehabilitation setting.

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to organise a workload and to delegate and prioritise
• Knowledge and application of national guidelines for stoke
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Knowledge of current stroke specific guidelines and relevant standards and outcome measures as well as recent research

Personal Qualities

• Good communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal
• To be able to communicate complex and or sensitive information
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Experience of supervising rehabilitation assistants

Other

• Able to work flexibly including contributing to a weekend therapist rota.
• Frequent Travel Essential - You will need to travel, so you must either hold a full, current driving li-cence and have access to personal transport or meet the mobility requirements of the role through other reasonable and suitable means.

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.

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearpro rata, per annum