Physiotherapist – Neuro

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Location: Peterborough and/or Cambridgeshire

Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £24 – £35 per hour (assignment rate)

Shift/Working Pattern: Full-time/Part-time

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Main Duties:

• To assess, plan and develop specialist physiotherapy programmes for patients under care of the Early Supported Discharge Service for Stroke (ESD).
• This will involve working in a range of ward settings, outpatient departments and various community settings. This will include lone working within the community with access to Advanced Practitioners/band7 when required.
• To provide a high standard of physiotherapy.
• To perform advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with neurological conditions including stroke and to deliver an individual treatment programme.
• To hold responsibility for own caseload and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type, working unsupervised.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner within the multi-professional team.
• To provide support, regular formal training, clinical reasoning sessions and peer review.
• To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of Advanced Practitioners/band 7.
• To identify patient needs, agree goals and provide appropriate therapy interventions relating to their physical, functional and psychological needs.
• Provide appropriate equipment and rehabilitation programmes, and make referrals on to other professionals and agencies as appropriate in order to meet the identified needs.
• To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
• To allocate work to non-registered staff.
• To provide neuro advice to professionals from other disciplines.
• Provide support and education to peers, new staff, non-registered staff and students.
• To supervise physiotherapists, non-registered staff, overseeing patient intervention and ensure that they deliver high quality patient care.
• To be actively involved in training, teaching and supporting junior staff, non-registered staff to achieve competencies.
• To be accountable for a delegated caseload held by junior registered staff and non-registered staff in the team.
• To be involved in coordinating and providing 6-month reviews for stroke survivors.
• To build up and maintain key relationships with referring services and CNRS to facilitate appropriate referrals and an understanding of the roles within the ESD team.
• To take an active role in the clinical triage duty process within the ESD service to prioritise and ensure timely response for assessments.
• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects for your own and delegated work.
• To work within codes of practice and professional guidelines.
• To undertake specialist holistic assessment (including those with complex presentations and multi pathologies) making use of clinical reasoning skills.
• To use evidence-based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective and appropriate.
• To formulate and deliver an individual physiotherapy programme based on knowledge of evidence-based practice and treatment options.
• To evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes when required.
• To understand and be acutely aware of significant medical observations during assessment and treatment of patients and report significant changes in patients’ conditions to the appropriate medical professional e.g. named nurse, GP etc.

Requirements of the Physiotherapist:

• Qualified physiotherapist, i.e., Degree or equivalent within Physiotherapy.
• Recent UK experience within physiotherapy.
• Registered with the HCPC as a physiotherapist to work in the UK.
• NHS experience would be advantageous but not essential.

We welcome applications from physiotherapists and physio assistants (Band 3, Band 4, Band 5, Band 6, Band 7, and above!) within different physio services as we have other roles available within the NHS and private sectors.

Contact: This physiotherapy job is advertised by Alex Blackwell. If you are interested in this position, please click above to apply now.

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