About this role
Job summary
We are looking for experienced, enthusiastic individuals to join our Community Stroke and Neuro Team in Islington for 12 months . The team works with adults of all ages and is based on achieving client-centred goals in a time orientated way, so experience in assessing and working with older people and with people with physical disabilities (stroke and/or Neuro) is essential.
You will gain further experience in working with a range of other professionals and services. You will be joining a supportive group of colleagues, with regular in-service and professional forums, individual supervision and a personal development plan that is regularly updated.
Main duties of the job
To deliver patient care based on principles of best practice, achievable through direct patient contact or via supervision.
To carry out specialist, comprehensive assessments of patients with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills formulating individualised management and treatment plans.
To provide specialised physiotherapy interventions at home or in a community setting as required, collaborating with colleagues in the community and secondary care health professionals to promote continuity of care.
To identify own learning needs related to clinical knowledge and skills in the management of patients following stroke and with long term neurological conditions.
To support in the delivery of multidisciplinary education and training.
To access further education programmes to develop knowledge and skills, and to share learning with the wider team.
To support in the monitoring of the effectiveness of the community therapy service through the collation of data for ongoing audit.
Contribute to the evaluation of research findings and disseminate them appropriately, including presentations at study days or conferences.
To adhere to Whittington Health policy and procedures at all times.
To be aware of one's own continuous professional development needs and maintain an annual personal development plan.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description Job responsibilities
To provide high quality effective physiotherapy assessment and treatment/management programmes for adults presenting with stroke in Haringey, who require a community-based service. To use highly specialist physiotherapy knowledge and skills to manage own complex caseload, as an autonomous practitioner.
To act as a source of expertise on stroke, neurological conditions and rehabilitation ; providing advice to patients, carers, all grades of physiotherapists, other health care professionals, consultants, general practitioners and social services.
To support the use of evidence-based practice within the service, incorporating national guidelines e.g. stroke strategy into practice.
Please see Job Description for further details
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy Registration with the Health Professions Council
Desirable
Attendance on courses related to Neurological Physiotherapy e.g. Basic Bobath course Member of the CSP and relevant Clinical Interest group e.g.ACPIN
Skills and Abilities Essential
Essential IT skills, including Word and PowerPoint Demonstrates ICARE values
Experience Essential
Experience of running groups Experience of organising, writing and delivering in-service training programmes Experience of involvement in clinical governance/service improvement initiatives Previous experience working within the NHS Previous experience working independently in a community setting previous experience of MDT working
Desirable
Experience of taking physiotherapy students on clinical practice placements Experience of working with the voluntary sector Experience of supervising junior and non-qualified staff, including participation in personal development reviews
Knowledge Essential
Knowledge of current NHS priorities and policy Understanding of clinical governance activity and its application to physiotherapy services and practice. Knowledge of Physiotherapy professional issues. Knowledge of the stroke strategy, and the NSF for long term conditions and related frameworks Knowledge of other medical conditions which you may encounter including, but not exclusively, respiratory, orthopaedics and conditions of old age
Desirable
Evidence of attendance of post-graduate training related to the post knowledge of the audit cycle and its uses.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address The Outlook Centre
133 St Johns Way
London
N19 3RQ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)