Highly Specialist Physiotherapist, NeurologyinSouthallinSouthallPUBLISHED WED 2 APR 2025
In this pivotal role, you’ll assess and treat patients with complex neurological conditions, leading the inpatient physiotherapy service, and shaping the future of care through service development projects. You’ll be supported as you supervise and mentor other team members, fostering an inclusive atmosphere that empowers your colleagues while improving patient outcomes. Whether you’re a Band 7 physiotherapist or ready to transition from a Band 6, we value ambition and a passion for change. Together, let’s build a future where outstanding healthcare happens hand-in-hand with fulfilling professional relationships.
Your future starts here—join us in Southall to make a genuine impact within our communities while enjoying the rewards of a career in the care industry.
Being one of the UK's largest NHS Trusts has its challenges. And our 8,000-strong team expertly and wholeheartedly rise to each one. As a Highly Specialist Physiotherapist, you'll add your therapy skills to this proud heritage as you help to deliver world-class healthcare across North West London. With a range of hospitals, community services and offices, there's nothing our diverse team can't do - from offering you a broader, deeper pool of talent to learn from, to the exposure to develop new skills and a seamless career journey across a truly innovative Trust.
The service covers:
A 16 bedded hyper-acute Stroke Unit and a 36 bedded stroke rehabilitation ward. These both have an established interdisciplinary team approach and require the applicant to use innovative thinking and strong working relationships and excellent clinical skills to maintain and enhance high standards of stroke care.
Acute Neuro Outliers service - this service has 1 role at Ealing hospital and 1 at Northwick park Hospital. These posts support the management of acutely unwell patients admitted with to our hospital sites with neurological injury or illness.
Potential to include the neuro outpatients and Stroke Early Supported Discharge Team in the future.
You'll manage service development projects across the Adult Therapies department, as well as support the wider MDT to continue to develop a bar-raising stroke service. We're big on collaboration. That means you'll get to share expertise, advice and new ideas on how to improve the experience for our many, many patients.
We're looking for an HCPC-registered Band 7 physiotherapist who has experience gained in community outpatient, acute and rehab in-patient services. In this key role in our teaching Trust, you'll also need experience of supervising others in their day-to-day role. As you'll get the chance to rotate, we'd expect to see evidence of the clinical application of core therapy and reasoning skills - as well as some knowledge of wide-ranging assessments and interventions for patients with varied neurological conditions. Developmental positions will be considered starting at a band 6 level and progressing to a band 7 position once key competencies are met.
We've one big team. And countless possibilities. That's why we're looking for a Band 7 physiotherapist who's as inspired by change, ambitious and determined to succeed as we are.
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Summary of the role
As an autonomous practitioner to assess and treat own case load and provide a highly specialist neurology physiotherapy service to patients.
To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), assessing and treating patients with highly complex neurological disability and maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient records.
To work jointly with other Band 7 Physiotherapists to clinically lead the inpatient neurological physiotherapy service including Stroke and acute neuro medical caseload there are other band 7 neurology physiotherapy opportunities in the trust that can be included into the rotation on consultation with the rotational cohort, these could possibly include Neuro Outpatients, Stroke ESD and Ealing Hospital.
To work closely with the cross-site Deputy Director of Therapies and the Clinical Therapy Lead for Neurology to support the development of the Neurology Physiotherapy Service.
To contribute to the management of all aspects of the Neurology Physiotherapy Service. This includes prioritising and organising all referrals to the neurology service and allocation of patients.
To be responsible for the development and appraisal of the team members, including Band 6,5,4,2 and students.
To regularly provide formal and informal, on-going training and education to physiotherapy staff, other healthcare professions and students.
To engage in own continued professional development (CPD) and service development.
To take a lead on clinical audit within the team and undertake research.
To participate in the weekend working rota (1 in 5 weekends), and the respiratory on-call rotaPlease wait...this will take a moment...
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