Specialist Rotational Physiotherapist - Neuro with Trauma

Barts Health Nhs Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in City of Westminster seeks a passionate Physiotherapist to join their multidisciplinary team. Responsibilities include assessing patients and delivering evidence-based interventions across various neurological and trauma services. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills and enthusiasm for physiotherapy. This role offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment with rotations through Neuro and Trauma wards, enhancing care pathways for patients. Join our mission to provide compassionate care and contribute to our values of inclusion and belonging.

Qualifications

• Passion for physiotherapy is required.
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience with patients having neurological or trauma impairments is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Assess and provide evidence-based interventions for patients.
• Develop and deliver high-quality physiotherapy services.
• Rotate through various wards and community services.

Skills

Communication skills

Ability to work autonomously

Initiative

Enthusiasm

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

Job description

The Royal London and Mile End Hospitals are a world-renowned specialist tertiary Neurosciences and Major Trauma centre as well as Stroke Centre for the North East London and Essex sector and serve as a base for our Tower Hamlets Community Neuro/Therapy teams., This role will give you the opportunity to work as part of the wider multidisciplinary team across Neuro Trauma (Orthopaedics and Plastics, and Neurosurgical/Neurology wards), our Rapid Access to Acute Rehab (RAAR) service, Stroke Services and Community Neuro Team; rotating within these acute and community services to provide seamless integrated care in line with our WeCare values and behaviours.

You will be responsible for assessing and providing evidence-based intervention for patients in our different services including determining in co-production their optimal rehabilitation/discharge pathway/management plan in line with their functional goals., To assist and contribute to organising, developing and delivering a high-quality physiotherapy service provided to a wide variety of in-patients. These patients will have Neurological, Trauma, Respiratory and/or Amputee impairments.

The post will include rotations through Neuro and Trauma wards, Rapid Access to Acute Rehab (RAAR), Stroke services, and the Tower Hamlets Community Neurological Team.

It is expected that this scheme will expand to include rotations into the hyperacute environment of adult intensive care, and musculoskeletal secondary care follow up services to enhance the trauma and neuro pathways.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for physiotherapy, excellent communication skills, plenty of initiative and enthusiasm, and with the ability to work both autonomously and as a part of the wider MDT.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.