Highly Specialist Physiotherapist (Stroke Rehab)

Job responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

CERTIFICATE OF SPONSORSHIP:

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit theUK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see ourPolicy for eligible vacancies.

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Disclosure and Barring Service:

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.

The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as followsif applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £6.50 = £28.00 Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £6.50 = £56.00 Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

Flexible working Scheme

NHS Discounts*

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*

Excellent opportunities for development*

Competitive NHS Pension scheme

Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

*Subject to eligibility

Important Information:

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

Qualifications

Essential

• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy recognised degree or equivalent in physiotherapy.
• Health and Care Professions Council registered.
• Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

Desirable

• MSc in physiotherapy.

Knowledge

Essential

• Awareness of current initiatives within the Local and National health economy.
• Advanced clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of practice relating to stroke and neuro rehab.
• In depth knowledge of a wide range of current, evidence based, therapeutic strategies (relevant Stroke).
• Evidence of CPD.
• Knowledge of quality issues and CQC.
• Demonstrate a sound knowledge and application of clinical governance to work practice.

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Ability to handle difficult emotional situations.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• High level of organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to organise workload of self and others.
• Good problem solving skills.
• IT literate.
• Demonstrates highly developed skills of reflective practice; knowledge of personal limitations and ability to appropriately refer service users to another service, when appropriate.
• Highly developed negotiation skills; including conflict resolution, problem solving and management.
• Ability to independently manage a caseload of highly complex clients.
• Highly developed skills to empathise, interpret and remember complex/ emotive/abstract information from service users, carers and other professionals in order to make specialist clinical decisions; formulate effective intervention plans

Desirable

• Experience of using electronic patient record (EPR)

Personal Circumstances

Essential

• Able to participate in weekend rotas
• Patient focused
• Empathetic
• Organised
• Flexible
• Reliable
• Friendly and approachable

Experience

Essential

• Recent experience of working at band 6 level or above (for a significant period of time) in stroke and/or neuro-rehabilitation.
• Lead in the Supervision and education of staff/students.
• Recent evidence of use of research skills for developing service or improving practice.
• Deputising for team leader.
• Demonstrate can work independently.
• Evidence effective leadership skills and training undertaken
• Recent evidence of using audit tools.
• Recent evidence of leading service development
• Awareness of key NHS drivers (Nationally and Locally) for change and implications for physiotherapy services in Stroke and neuro rehab including the NHS Long Term Plan.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership skills

Desirable

• Responsibility for an area of work, e.g. health & safety, in-service training, clinical audit, R&D.
• Experience of performing clinical research, within field.
• Experience of managing team and change management
• Membership of a relevant special interest group.

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).