Specialist Physiotherapist Neurorehabilitation
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
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 inpatient 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.
About us
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.
Job responsibilities
As a member of the physiotherapy service, this role involves working as 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 coordinator.
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:
* To undertake advanced assessment and treatment of patients within neurorehabilitation services, who may have complex and/or chronic presentations.
* To have specialist skills in the holistic assessment of the needs of patients who have significant neurological injury or condition.
* Assess and treat own caseload of patients who have complex presentations and maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner.
* 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.
* To monitor and improve standards of care by efficient use of resources, data collection, and clinical audit.
* To work as an autonomous practitioner being professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your work, managing your own caseload and maintaining patient and own records.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* BSc / MSc Physiotherapy
* Post graduate training relevant to neurorehabilitation
* BSc / MSc in related area e.g. sports science / neurorehabilitation
Professional Registration
* HCPC registration
* CSP member
Knowledge Training and Experience
* Significant post registration NHS experience including working across core clinical areas, and with patients of neurological presentation at Band 5 level or above
* Evidence of a wide clinical theoretical base and specialist knowledge in assessment and treatment of patients with neurological presentation
* Evidence of contribution to service improvement/development
* Evidence of supervising other staff and students and completion of clinical educators course
* Experience of complex decision-making processes including where capacity decisions may be required.
* Knowledge of National Guidelines/Standards pertinent to the Neurorehab pathway
Skills and Abilities
* Evidence of working within an MDT
* Flexibility
* Good organisational and time management skills
* Evidence of CPD
* Experience of complex discharge planning and processes e.g. CHC.
* To be a car driver
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.
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
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