Clinical Lead Therapist - Surrey Downs H&C

Surrey Downs Health & Care
The role is as team lead and clinical specialist for the CNRS Neurophysio team. The main job roles include:

 

• To take a leading role in the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients with neurological deficits. These patients may have an acute, sub-acute or chronic presentation and may have a range of routine to highly complex problems.


• To provide an effective high quality service to patients.


• Take a lead role in supervision and teaching of physiotherapists within this specialty by encouraging evidence based practice and CPD.


• To demonstrate leadership skills, contributing to service development by identifying areas for development and holding responsibility for defined projects.


• To set and monitor standards of practice.


• To undertake evidence based projects, including recommendations for change in practice


• To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant specialist clinical workload and merge a case load of patients with a range of routine and highly complex needs.


• To act as keyworker for agreed patients.


• To assess and recommend most appropriate neurorehabilitation pathway for individual patients, including tertiary centres, in acute and community settings.


• To provide expert clinical advice for the most appropriate timing and extent of neurorehabilitation required by individual patients, especially with regard to use of tertiary services.


• To be a member of the neurorehabilitation pathways team

Main duties of the job
1. To be responsible for the setting and monitoring of standards and policies of clinical practice for neuro-rehabilitation physiotherapy.
2. To be the expert clinician in the field of neuro-rehabilitation/neurological physiotherapy.
3. To set and maintain a high standard of clinical care using evidence based practice and to encourage this throughout the teams.
4 . To evaluate outcome of interventions using validated outcome measures and ensure other staff do the same.
5. To act as a lead specialist neuro-physiotherapy resource using highly developed clinical skills in theoretical knowledge and relevant practical experience.
6. To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant specialist clinical workload and use clinical reasoning skills to utilize a wide range of treatment skills and options in order to formulate a specialized programme of care using a range of interventions
About us
Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people's own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:

 

 

• The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area


• CSH Surrey


• Epsom and St Helier's University Hospitals NHS Trust


• Surrey Council County

Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.
It's on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed - we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.
In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.
Job description

Job responsibilities
Please see JD for full description of job role and responsibilities

 

 

• To take a leading role in the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients with neurological deficits. These patients may have an acute, sub-acute or chronic presentation and may have a range of routine to highly complex problems.


• To provide an effective high quality service to patients.


• Take a lead role in supervision and teaching of physiotherapists within this specialty by encouraging evidence based practice and CPD.


• To promote the role of physiotherapy with other disciplines, acting as a specialist for advice.


• To demonstrate leadership skills, contributing to service development by identifying areas for development and holding responsibility for defined projects.


• To set and monitor standards of practice.


• To undertake evidence based projects, including recommendations for change in practice and to lead in departmental and service evaluation/research.


• To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant specialist clinical workload and merge a case load of patients with a range of routine and highly complex needs.


• To act as keyworker for agreed patients.


• To assess and recommend most appropriate neurorehabilitation pathway for individual patients, including tertiary centres, in acute and community settings.


• To provide ongoing advice and monitoring of patients throughout neurorehabilitation pathway, including active involvement in goal planning and discharge with tertiary centres to facilitate effective discharge and smooth transition between services.


• To provide expert clinical advice for the most appropriate timing and extent of neurorehabilitation required by individual patients, especially with regard to use of tertiary services.


• To be a member of the neurorehabilitation pathways team actively developing Community Neurorehabilitation Services.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

 

• Post registration experience, working with neurological patients including acute/outpatients

Desirable

• Previous experience as a clinical specialist physiotherapist (or equivalent ) in neurorehabilitation

Skills

Essential

• Exceptional team building and team working skills

Desirable

• Good ability to lead on service development and transformation

Employer details

Employer name
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Community Neurorehabilitation Service, Langley Wing, Epsom General Hospital
Epsom General Hospital, Dorking Road
Epsom
KT18 7EG
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343-SDH&C-6844199