Specialised Physiotherapist – Stroke

Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Georges NHS Hospital Town London Salary £46,419 - £55,046 per annum pro-rata incl HCAS (20%) Salary period Yearly Closing 02/11/2025 23:59

Specialised Physiotherapist – Stroke
Band 6
Job overview

This role involves working across St George’s two Stroke services, the Hyperacute Stroke Unit and Acute Stroke Unit.

The role will provide a high standard of physiotherapy service to patients within the Hyperacute and Acute Stroke Units across 3 days a week.

The Neurosciences and Therapies directorates are dynamic and innovative, and champion new ideas and developments from all team members. All services are formed of forward thinking, highly skilled and experienced Band 8a and B7 therapists with a range of specialisms across all domains of Neurotherapies .

Main duties of the job

· Undertakes a specialised neurological assessment of own workload of patients, who may have complex presentations, and from this assessment formulates a treatment plan and carries out this treatment as an autonomous practitioner

· Supervises and teaches peers, recently qualified physiotherapists/physiotherapy assistants/students, and involved in teaching MDT staff

· Undertakes evidence-based projects, including making recommendations for change in practice and participating in departmental research and audit as appropriate

· Potential to be involved in Neuromuscular Clinical Trial portfolio for additional 1 day per week

Working for our organisation

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton, home to the majority of the Wolfson Neurorehabilitation services, spasticity services and amputee rehabilitation; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Neurosciences Physiotherapy service at St George’s Hospital across the Stroke teams. The successful candidate will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing a high standard of physiotherapy assessment, treatment and advice to people following stroke.

There is also the potential to work as part of the Neuromuscular Clinical Research team providing support for the neuromuscular clinical research team and carry out outcome measures for the clinical trials. This can be discussed further prior to applying for the role or if invited to interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Person specification
Qualifications and Training

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• • Degree or equivalent in physiotherapy
  
• • Evidence of CPD, in the form of a detailed personal development portfolio, including attendance at recent post graduate courses relevant to the clinical field
  

Experience

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• Post registration experience as a Band 5 rotational therapist
  
• Experience of working in the NHS (can include undergraduate experience)
  
• Broad range of experience at B5 level including rotations in ICU, medical, surgery, neurology, outpatients and elderly care
  
• Participation in on-call and weekend rota
  
• Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy and multidisciplinary team
  
• Ability to autonomously form a sound prognosis and advise other members of the MDT
  
• • Previous experience at Band 6 level
  
• • Experience of the research process
  
• • Teaching experience in in-service programmes
  
• • Committee membership, e.g. health and safety
  

Other

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• Ability to work as a team member
  

Skills and Knowledge

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• Remains updated with professional practice and new research and implements this into clinical practice
  
• Good assessment skills based on a sound clinical reasoning approach including the assessment of symptom behaviour, history taking and gathering of physical/objective testing and hypothesis formation
  
• Ability to work with multi/interdisciplinary team and set team goalsAbility to organise, prioritise, delegate and work autonomously
  
• Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for physiotherapy services including experience of quality issues and audit
  
• Supervision of other staff, e.g. physiotherapy assistant, students
  
• Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner
  
• Willingness to deliver and actively engage in staff training
  
• Ability to keep legible and accurate notes in English in the POMR system
  
• Ability to cope with working in a stressful environment
  
• Able to motivate self and others
  
• Ability to run courses – internal / external
  
• Evidence of participation in research / audit
  

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.