Major Trauma Rehabilitation Coordinator

Job summary

The Major Trauma Rehabilitation Co-ordinator is responsible for the co-ordination of integrated rehab for major trauma patients across the Trust, ensuring patient-centred and clinically effective care, in line with both Trust and national policies, and procedures and guidelines.

The Trust has a substantial population of Major Trauma patients, admitted from our two Emergency Departments, Medical Assessment, and Surgical Assessment Units, and repatriated from Major Trauma Centres and overseas. This is a highly experienced inter-professional service, supporting clients following Traumatic Brain Injury, and working alongside the wider neuro rehab service, who support patients following medically acquired brain injury, and other long-term neurological conditions.

The successful candidate will be passionate about delivering high quality rehabilitation, and advocating for patients. Experience in the field of neurorehabilitation is desirable. You will work closely as a key member of our multi-disciplinary team.

Regular supervision will be provided, with access to training and support, to enable you to achieve your personal development objectives. Leadership skills, service development, and research opportunities are well supported in the Trust, within service training, and one-to-one input from both the therapy service management team, and clinical specialists.You will be required to work across two different sites - Royal Derby Hospital, and Florence Nightingale Community Hospital.

Main duties of the job

• To liaise with clinicians responsible for major trauma patients, in order to identify changes in rehabilitation needs.
• Inform Operational Manager of any build-up of patients awaiting Trauma Rehabilitation.
• Liaise with the major trauma centres regarding referred patients.
• Liaise with families of major trauma patients, with regards to rehabilitation.
• Promote clinical excellence in the care of patients along the major trauma pathway, providing expert professional, and clinical support and advice, to the multi professional team along the pathway, enabling the coordination of a multi professional seamless service for major trauma patients.
• Provide strong clinical leadership skills, energising the multi professional team in pursuit of a shared vision, to ensure the effectiveness and safe delivery of care to patients, along the major trauma pathway, with a particular focus on rehabilitation.
• To support acute wards in the management of major trauma patients, especially in those aspects that will reduce complications, and enhance rehabilitation, such as positioning and behavioural management.
• To ensure that Neurological Rehabilitation Services in Derby, are engaged in relevant research projects/ clinical trials, and implement and evaluate new and innovative clinically effective treatment techniques in order to establish Derby as a centre of excellence.

Closing date of applications: 4 September 2025Interview date: 18 September 2025

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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