Clinical Lead Therapist - Surrey Downs H&C
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
The role is as team lead and clinical specialist for the CNRS Neurophysio team. The main job roles include:
* To take a leading role in the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients with neurological deficits. These patients may have an acute, sub-acute or chronic presentation and may have a range of routine to highly complex problems.
* To provide an effective high quality service to patients.
* Take a lead role in supervision and teaching of physiotherapists within this specialty by encouraging evidence based practice and CPD.
* To demonstrate leadership skills, contributing to service development by identifying areas for development and holding responsibility for defined projects.
* To set and monitor standards of practice.
* To undertake evidence based projects, including recommendations for change in practice.
* To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant specialist clinical workload and merge a case load of patients with a range of routine and highly complex needs.
* To act as keyworker for agreed patients.
* To assess and recommend most appropriate neurorehabilitation pathway for individual patients, including tertiary centres, in acute and community settings.
* To provide expert clinical advice for the most appropriate timing and extent of neurorehabilitation required by individual patients, especially with regard to use of tertiary services.
* To be a member of the neurorehabilitation pathways team.
Main duties of the job
1. To be responsible for the setting and monitoring of standards and policies of clinical practice for neuro-rehabilitation physiotherapy.
2. To be the expert clinician in the field of neuro-rehabilitation/neurological physiotherapy.
3. To set and maintain a high standard of clinical care using evidence based practice and to encourage this throughout the teams.
4. To evaluate outcome of interventions using validated outcome measures and ensure other staff do the same.
5. To act as a lead specialist neuro-physiotherapy resource using highly developed clinical skills in theoretical knowledge and relevant practical experience.
6. To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant specialist clinical workload and use clinical reasoning skills to utilize a wide range of treatment skills and options in order to formulate a specialized programme of care using a range of interventions.
About us
Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people's own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual.
In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.
Job responsibilities
* To take a leading role in the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients with neurological deficits.
* To provide an effective high quality service to patients.
* To promote the role of physiotherapy with other disciplines, acting as a specialist for advice.
* To demonstrate leadership skills, contributing to service development by identifying areas for development and holding responsibility for defined projects.
* To set and monitor standards of practice.
* To undertake evidence based projects, including recommendations for change in practice and to lead in departmental and service evaluation/research.
* To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant specialist clinical workload and merge a case load of patients with a range of routine and highly complex needs.
* To act as keyworker for agreed patients.
* To assess and recommend most appropriate neurorehabilitation pathway for individual patients.
* To provide ongoing advice and monitoring of patients throughout neurorehabilitation pathway.
* To provide expert clinical advice for the most appropriate timing and extent of neurorehabilitation required by individual patients.
* To be a member of the neurorehabilitation pathways team actively developing Community Neurorehabilitation Services.
Person Specification
Experience
* Post registration experience, working with neurological patients including acute/outpatients.
* Previous experience as a clinical specialist physiotherapist (or equivalent) in neurorehabilitation.
Skills
* Exceptional team building and team working skills.
* Good ability to lead on service development and transformation.
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.
Address
Community Neurorehabilitation Service, Langley Wing, Epsom General Hospital
Head of Service, Integrated Stroke and Neurorehab
£55,877 to £62,626 a year Per Annum Pro Rata inc Fringe HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
343-SDH&C-6844199
Job locations
Community Neurorehabilitation Service, Langley Wing, Epsom General Hospital
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