Job summary
To act as a specialist clinician for the Physiotherapy service with stroke patients and supporting the clinical leads with evolving and embedding best practice into the clinical areas.
The posts will be located across the acute stroke and rehabilitation wards at Calderdale Royal Hospital.
The teams are multidisciplinary in nature and so the role will work alongside Occupational therapists, Speech and Language therapists, Dietitians, Specialist stroke nurses, and rehabilitation support staff.
The post will follow the patient's journey from acute therapy areas, through discharge from hospital, into a suitable community setting supported by the ESD service. The successful candidate will have experience in treating stroke patients and have specialist assessment and therapeutic handling skills .
Main duties of the job
- To manage own specialist caseload in this area.
- To work autonomously within Trust policies and professional practice, maintaining accurate and comprehensive up to date records.
- To carry out specialist assessment and treatment of stroke patients with the aim of facilitating safe and timely discharges and transfer of care.
- Develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualised treatment programmes and/or provide specialist advice, ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.
- Take part in the education and training of Physiotherapists and qualified and non-qualified healthcare / social services / education staff including medical staff.
- To support the Clinical lead in the day to day running of the Rehabilitation Team.
- To support and advise within the wider MDT on the delivery of the service
- To always follow HCPC standards of practice.
About us
We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full detail please see Job Description. Overview of duties below:
- To manage own specialist caseload in this area.
- To work autonomously within Trust policies and professional practice, maintaining accurate and comprehensive up to date records.
- To carry out specialist assessment and treatment of stroke patients with the aim of facilitating safe and timely discharges and transfer of care.
- Develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualised treatment programmes and/or provide specialist advice, ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.
- Take part in the education and training of Physiotherapists and qualified and non-qualified healthcare / social services / education staff including medical staff.
- To support the Clinical lead in the day to day running of the Rehabilitation Team.
- To support and advise within the wider MDT on the delivery of the service
- To always follow HCPC standards of practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full detail please see Job Description. Overview of duties below:
- To manage own specialist caseload in this area.
- To work autonomously within Trust policies and professional practice, maintaining accurate and comprehensive up to date records.
- To carry out specialist assessment and treatment of stroke patients with the aim of facilitating safe and timely discharges and transfer of care.
- Develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualised treatment programmes and/or provide specialist advice, ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.
- Take part in the education and training of Physiotherapists and qualified and non-qualified healthcare / social services / education staff including medical staff.
- To support the Clinical lead in the day to day running of the Rehabilitation Team.
- To support and advise within the wider MDT on the delivery of the service
- To always follow HCPC standards of practice.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential
- Relevant Degree/Diploma
- Registered with HPC
- Evidence of Postgraduate Training
- Clinical Educator Training
- Neurological manual handling skills
- Willing and able to participate in a competency work based training programme
Desirable
- Studied at Masters level or equivalent
- Member of Professional Body
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential
- Recent experience demonstrating ability to assess, treat and evaluate care in stroke rehabilitation or other long term neurological conditions
- Good clinical reasoning skills
- Evidence of CPD, self-directed learning and reflective practice
- Awareness of relevant legislation, NSF'/Local and National initiatives
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Critical appraisal skills
- Ability to maintain legible and accurate records
- Teaching/presentation skills
- Rotational experience in stroke rehabilitation
- Experience developing others
- Neurological manual handling skills
Desirable
- Attendance at relevant specialist interest groups
- Experience in contributing to service improvements e.g. Audit, Patient information
- Experience in dealing with complaints (e.g. diffusing complaints or investigating)
- Experience in supervising and training others
- Carrying out PDR's
- Manual handling facilitator
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential
- Demonstrates positive attitude and behaviours
- Excellent Time Management skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with people with complex difficulties and in difficult situations
- Ability to concentrate and work in conditions requiring emotional demands
- Ability to identify and articulate own training needs
- Self motivated with ability to work independently and influence others
- Proven ability to work well in a team
- Ability to make decisions and problem solve when dealing with routine situations
- Ability to organise own work and caseload
- Ability to work in a stressful environment and concentrate in conditions requiring emotional demands
- Ability to recognise own limitations and have a willingness to share and learn skills from others
- Ability to prioritise own and others caseloads.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential
- Relevant Degree/Diploma
- Registered with HPC
- Evidence of Postgraduate Training
- Clinical Educator Training
- Neurological manual handling skills
- Willing and able to participate in a competency work based training programme
Desirable
- Studied at Masters level or equivalent
- Member of Professional Body
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential
- Recent experience demonstrating ability to assess, treat and evaluate care in stroke rehabilitation or other long term neurological conditions
- Good clinical reasoning skills
- Evidence of CPD, self-directed learning and reflective practice
- Awareness of relevant legislation, NSF'/Local and National initiatives
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Critical appraisal skills
- Ability to maintain legible and accurate records
- Teaching/presentation skills
- Rotational experience in stroke rehabilitation
- Experience developing others
- Neurological manual handling skills
Desirable
- Attendance at relevant specialist interest groups
- Experience in contributing to service improvements e.g. Audit, Patient information
- Experience in dealing with complaints (e.g. diffusing complaints or investigating)
- Experience in supervising and training others
- Carrying out PDR's
- Manual handling facilitator
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential
- Demonstrates positive attitude and behaviours
- Excellent Time Management skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with people with complex difficulties and in difficult situations
- Ability to concentrate and work in conditions requiring emotional demands
- Ability to identify and articulate own training needs
- Self motivated with ability to work independently and influence others
- Proven ability to work well in a team
- Ability to make decisions and problem solve when dealing with routine situations
- Ability to organise own work and caseload
- Ability to work in a stressful environment and concentrate in conditions requiring emotional demands
- Ability to recognise own limitations and have a willingness to share and learn skills from others
- Ability to prioritise own and others caseloads.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
