We are looking for experienced, enthusiastic individuals to join our Community Stroke and Neuro Team in Islington for 12 months . The team works with adults of all ages and is based on achieving client-centred goals in a time orientated way, so experience in assessing and working with older people and with people with physical disabilities (stroke and/or Neuro) is essential.
You will gain further experience in working with a range of other professionals and services. You will be joining a supportive group of colleagues, with regular in-service and professional forums, individual supervision and a personal development plan that is regularly updated.
To deliver patient care based on principles of best practice, achievable through direct patient contact or via supervision.
To carry out specialist, comprehensive assessments of patients with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills formulating individualised management and treatment plans.
To provide specialised physiotherapy interventions at home or in a community setting as required, collaborating with colleagues in the community and secondary care health professionals to promote continuity of care.
To identify own learning needs related to clinical knowledge and skills in the management of patients following stroke and with long term neurological conditions.
To support in the delivery of multidisciplinary education and training.
To access further education programmes to develop knowledge and skills, and to share learning with the wider team.
To support in the monitoring of the effectiveness of the community therapy service through the collation of data for ongoing audit.
Contribute to the evaluation of research findings and disseminate them appropriately, including presentations at study days or conferences.
To adhere to Whittington Health policy and procedures at all times.
To be aware of one's own continuous professional development needs and maintain an annual personal development plan.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
To provide high quality effective physiotherapy assessment and treatment/management programmes for adults presenting with stroke in Haringey, who require a community-based service. To use highly specialist physiotherapy knowledge and skills to manage own complex caseload, as an autonomous practitioner.
To act as a source of expertise on stroke, neurological conditions and rehabilitation ; providing advice to patients, carers, all grades of physiotherapists, other health care professionals, consultants, general practitioners and social services.
To support the use of evidence-based practice within the service, incorporating national guidelines e.g. stroke strategy into practice.
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