Specialist Physiotherapist Neurorehabilitation

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated Physiotherapist to join a supportive multi-disciplinary team in a leading NHS trust. You will play a vital role in providing advanced assessment and tailored treatment for patients with neurological conditions. This position not only offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment but also to engage in service development and quality improvement projects. The organization values flexibility and offers a competitive benefits package, ensuring a great work-life balance. If you are passionate about making a difference in patients' lives and thrive in a collaborative setting, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Competitive benefits package

Annual leave allowance

Protected hours for health and wellbeing activities

Qualifications

• Significant post registration NHS experience with neurological patients.
• Evidence of contribution to service improvement and supervising staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment and treatment planning for neurorehabilitation patients.
• Contribute to service and team developments within the MDT.

Skills

Well-developed communication skills

Complex decision-making

Organizational skills

Time management

Flexibility

Good IT skills

Education

BSc / MSc Physiotherapy

Post graduate training relevant to neurorehabilitation

BSc / MSc in related area (sports science / neurorehabilitation)

Job description

Job summary

Main area: Physiotherapy

Grade: Band 6

Contract: Permanent: Full time

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Typically Monday- Friday 08:00- 16:00, flexible working applications considered in line with Trust policy.)

Job ref: 236-SCO-P222-25

Employer: Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Floyd Unit Neurorehabilitation Centre

Town: Rochdale

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 10/04/2025 23:59

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Band 6

Job overview

Due to ongoing service re-configurations across the NCA, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, dedicated, and innovative Physiotherapist to join the Floyd Unit Intermediate Neurorehabilitation Unit situated in Rochdale. The post is a permanent full-time band 6 opportunity. With ongoing development of the inpatient neurorehabilitation services, there may be future rotational opportunities.

The Floyd Unit has a supportive multi-disciplinary led team with direct clinical and professional support provided by the AHP Lead, Band 7 and Band 6 Physiotherapists. In addition, the Floyd unit has recently transferred its Operational and Professional management to the Manchester Centre for Neurosciences (MCCN) directorate at SRFT and therefore also benefits from their specialist support.

Main duties of the job

The post holder would be based at the Floyd Unit providing assessment, treatment planning and interventions to Neurorehabilitation patients admitted to the unit. The Floyd unit offers in-patient specialist Neurorehabilitation for patients with a range of Neurological conditions including Traumatic Brain Injury, Acquired brain injury and Spinal Cord injuries.

Alongside your clinical duties, you would be expected to contribute to ongoing and planned service and team developments within the wider Neurorehabilitation MDT.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust, we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate, and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us, you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a member of the physiotherapy service, this role involves working as a part of the well-established multi-disciplinary team at Floyd Unit which includes: Rehabilitation Medicine Consultant; rehabilitation nurses; physiotherapy; occupational therapy; speech and language therapists; dietitian; rehabilitation support workers; Neuropsychology services and a complex discharge co-ordinator.

The physiotherapy team provides specialist neurorehabilitation to service users who have a wide variety of impairments as a result of neurological injury or illness including: traumatic brain injury, acquired brain injury, spinal cord injury, Guillain barre syndrome, multiple sclerosis (MS), infections of the brain or other inflammatory conditions of the peripheral or central nervous system.

The physiotherapy team provides advanced assessment and individually tailored programmes to patients with complex and/or chronic presentations, based on the physical goals set in collaboration with the patient.

The Band 6 physiotherapist supports the Band 7 in operational duties and takes a lead role in quality improvement projects and ongoing physiotherapy service objectives.

Key professional duties include:

1. To undertake advanced assessment and treatment of patients within neurorehabilitation services, who may have complex and/or chronic presentations.
2. To have specialist skills in the holistic assessment of the needs of patients who have significant neurological injury or condition.
3. Assess and treat own caseload of patients who have complex presentations and maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner.
4. To support the Band 7 physiotherapist in the planning, delivery and evaluation of the Physiotherapy Service provided on a day-to-day basis, and to provide cover when required.
5. To monitor and improve standards of care by efficient use of resources, data collection, clinical audit.
6. To work as an autonomous practitioner being professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your work, managing own caseload and maintaining patient and own records.

Person specification

Qualifications

1. BSc / MSc Physiotherapy
2. Post graduate training relevant to neurorehabilitation
3. BSc / MSc in related area e.g. sports science / neurorehabilitation

Professional Registration

1. HCPC registration
2. CSP member
3. Relevant Special Interest Group member (e.g. ACPIN)

Knowledge Training and Experience

1. Significant post registration NHS experience including working across core clinical areas, and with patients of neurological presentation at Band 5 level or above
2. Evidence of a wide clinical theoretical base and specialist knowledge in assessment and treatment of patients with neurological presentation
3. Evidence of contribution to service improvement/development
4. Evidence of supervising other staff and students and completion of clinical educators course
5. To have experience of complex decision-making processes including where capacity decisions may be required.
6. Knowledge of National Guidelines/Standards pertinent to the Neurorehab pathway

Skills and Abilities

1. Well-developed communication skills
2. Evidence of working within an MDT
3. Flexibility
4. Good organisational and time management skills
5. Evidence of CPD
6. Good IT skills
7. To have experience of complex discharge planning and processes e.g. CHC.
8. To be a car driver

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruitment agencies and will not be liable for fees for candidates submitted speculatively.

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.

For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will be only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.

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Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.

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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.