Job overview
To be a physiotherapy clinical expert in Neurorehabilitation, particularly the management of patients with spasticity, for King’s College Hospital.
To ensure a high quality, effective and efficient physiotherapy service providing expert clinical intervention in neurorehabilitation, primarily as part of the multidisciplinary Spasticity Clinic, using extended scope of practice as appropriate
To be responsible for the operational management and clinical leadership of physiotherapy services related to the Multidisciplinary Spasticity clinic in conjunction with the Physiotherapy Senior Leadership team
To provide leadership, clinical expertise and operational management to both the Therapy Spasticity Clinic service and the Acute Neuro-Rehabilitation physiotherapy service in KCH South Sites
To use expert physiotherapy knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning to manage own complex caseload as an autonomous practitioner and to provide expert advice for internal and external members of the multidisciplinary team.
To supervise senior physiotherapy staff within the neuro-rehabilitation service including providing structured appraisals, meetings and peer support.
To be part of the Physiotherapy Clinical Leadership team by contributing to planning and service development of the King’s physiotherapy services
Main duties of the job
Provide Physiotherapy leadership, expertise and Injection Therapy to patients in the multi disciplinary Spasticity clinic.
Provide supervision, expertise to the acute neuro rehabilitation team lead at the Princess Royal university hospital and spasticity band 7 Physiotherapy staff.
Contribute to the clinical leadership planning and service development of Physiotherapy.
Working for our organisation
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.