The Rehabilitation and Neurological Physiotherapy Services at South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust are seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic Band 6 physiotherapist to join our rotational team on a 12-month fixed-term contract or secondment.
This post offers the opportunity to develop specialist skills across a range of rehabilitation and neurological settings, including :
CERU (Level 1 Brain Injury Unit)
Feldon Stroke Rehabilitation Unit
Community Stroke
Community Hospital Rehabilitation Wards
Neurological Outpatients
The rotations span the full rehabilitation pathway, from early and inpatient neurological rehabilitation through to community-based and outpatient services. You will work within supportive, forward-thinking multidisciplinary teams, delivering evidence-based, patient-centred care and contributing to service development.
We are looking for a physiotherapist with a strong interest in neurological and rehabilitation physiotherapy, motivated to develop advanced clinical reasoning skills and experienced in working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team.
This post will be based in South Warwickshire, with rotations across multiple hospital sites and community locations. Weekend working and participation in relevant on-call or rota systems are required.
To provide a high-standard physiotherapy service to patients in a specialist area.
To work as an accountable and autonomous practitioner, holding responsibility for own caseload.
To work in conjunction with the Pathway and Team leads in planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the Physiotherapy service within the speciality on a day to day basis.
To take a role in the provision of support and clinical supervision of less experienced physiotherapy staff and undergraduate students.
To deputise for the Team leaders as required.
To keep accurate records of patient contact using written records and electronic data capture.
To contribute to out of hours working as required.
To maintain own competency to practise.
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Timothy Carter Job title: Physiotherapy Physiotherapy Lead Email address: Telephone number:
ext 7513