Job summary
We are currently looking for an enthusiastic person with experience in stroke rehabilitation to join our specialist and friendly Community Stroke Team working as a Band 6 Physiotherapist. The post available is:
- Permanent, part time (22.5 hours a week)
Working closely with our acute and community colleagues across the local stroke pathway
You will:
- Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to provide specialist neurological intervention to enable and rehabilitate stroke patients within BANES.
- Undertake skilled and specialist assessment of service users to formulate individualised management and treatment plans. Facilitating best practice and evidence-based interventions, across a caseload of stroke patients often with complex/highly complex needs.
- Work in collaboration with service users and their carers towards shared goals providing advice, emotional support, education and training and assessing for and providing specialist equipment
- Provide information to patients and their families/carers, to empower them to manage their condition effectively and to make health care choices
- Share skills and knowledge and promote interdisciplinary working in the team to provide a flexible workforce that is able to deliver high quality person-centred care
- Participate in the Community Stroke Team service development initiatives and projects
Main duties of the job
This list is intended to summarise the key responsibilities and is not intended to cover every task that may be required of the role:
- To work as part of an interdisciplinary team to provide specialist neurological intervention to enable and rehabilitate stroke patients within BANES .
- To be highly competent and skilled in specialist assessment of service users, using standardised outcome measures, to measure and guide treatment.
- To use clinical reasoning skills, knowledge of evidence based practice and developed expertise, to determine individual appropriate physiotherapy treatment plans, which may include CIMT, electrical stimulation, mirror therapy, mental imagery, the GRASP program and the use of Saebo equipment such as the saeboglove and saeboreach splints.
- Work in collaboration with service users and their carers towards shared goals providing advice, education and training and assessing for and providing specialist equipment. Encourage independence and enable service users and their carers to manage their condition.
- In-reach into local acute and community hospitals and assess service users to establish eligibility for the Community Stroke Team and facilitate their safe discharge, liaising with acute and community services, families and carers as appropriate.
- To be able to organise clinical caseload effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time, ensuring service users
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
- £35,392 - £42,618 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Free and plentiful on site-parking at St Martins Hospital
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a number of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Essential
- Holds recognised professional qualifications in physiotherapy at degree level /BTEC Advanced Professional Diploma/Graduate Certificate level /NVQ4/VQ4
- Registered with HCPC
- Able to role model and promote interdisciplinary working, in order to ensure efficient and person centred care
- Have relevant experience of working closely and effectively in a multidisciplinary team and with other health, social care and voluntary sector colleagues
- Have expert clinical knowledge and experience of working with people with neurological conditions and demonstrate an understanding of the long term impact on individuals and their carers
- Experience of working in a variety of settings including community working
- A good degree of prioritisation skills and the ability to manage, organise and delegate own caseload to rehabilitation assistants
- A high level of effective communication and an ability to develop relationships with patients, carers and staff in other teams and organisations
- Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of relevant professional, national and organisational guidelines and standards required for safe and effective service delivery
- Demonstrable continuing professional development within the field of neurological rehabilitation and in accordance with HCPC recommendations
- Demonstrate flexibility and ability to respond to changing service priorities
- To have experience of providing clinical supervision, education and support to staff and student to identify learning objectives and personal development opportunities
- Computer skills including e-mail, word processing, power-point and the use of databases to search for literature
- Good working knowledge of typical work related systems e.g. electronic patient records
- A driving license and access to your own transport is required
Desirable
- Member of a relevant special interest group or network
- Experience of helping to develop team members and of seeking ways to improve services
- Experience and knowledge of professional and management practices within interdisciplinary and community settings
- Experience in promoting health and wellbeing, with a focus on empowering patients and their families to gain confidence and competence in managing their condition
- Experience of the use of electrical stimulation for the rehabilitation of the upper and lower limbs
- Experience of using the Grasp program, Saebo glove, Saebo MAS mini and Saebo Flex/Reach
- Experience in the management of spasticity
Job description
Job responsibilities
- £35,392 - £42,618 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Free and plentiful on site-parking at St Martins Hospital
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a number of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Essential
- Holds recognised professional qualifications in physiotherapy at degree level /BTEC Advanced Professional Diploma/Graduate Certificate level /NVQ4/VQ4
- Registered with HCPC
- Able to role model and promote interdisciplinary working, in order to ensure efficient and person centred care
- Have relevant experience of working closely and effectively in a multidisciplinary team and with other health, social care and voluntary sector colleagues
- Have expert clinical knowledge and experience of working with people with neurological conditions and demonstrate an understanding of the long term impact on individuals and their carers
- Experience of working in a variety of settings including community working
- A good degree of prioritisation skills and the ability to manage, organise and delegate own caseload to rehabilitation assistants
- A high level of effective communication and an ability to develop relationships with patients, carers and staff in other teams and organisations
- Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of relevant professional, national and organisational guidelines and standards required for safe and effective service delivery
- Demonstrable continuing professional development within the field of neurological rehabilitation and in accordance with HCPC recommendations
- Demonstrate flexibility and ability to respond to changing service priorities
- To have experience of providing clinical supervision, education and support to staff and student to identify learning objectives and personal development opportunities
- Computer skills including e-mail, word processing, power-point and the use of databases to search for literature
- Good working knowledge of typical work related systems e.g. electronic patient records
- A driving license and access to your own transport is required
Desirable
- Member of a relevant special interest group or network
- Experience of helping to develop team members and of seeking ways to improve services
- Experience and knowledge of professional and management practices within interdisciplinary and community settings
- Experience in promoting health and wellbeing, with a focus on empowering patients and their families to gain confidence and competence in managing their condition
- Experience of the use of electrical stimulation for the rehabilitation of the upper and lower limbs
- Experience of using the Grasp program, Saebo glove, Saebo MAS mini and Saebo Flex/Reach
- Experience in the management of spasticity
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
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Desirable
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Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Desirable
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
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.
