We are recruiting for a Senior Physiotherapist within our Neurological Outlier team and Stroke team, who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will be joining a proactive, integrated Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy service with excellent peer and senior support. We are looking for someone with sound clinical reasoning and communication skills, as well as an ability to work within a team and to use your initiative. We are looking for someone with Stroke or Neuro experience.
We offer excellent opportunities for new and experienced band 6’s wanting to enhance their skills. We offer strong professional leadership across the acute therapy service at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
The main duties of the post include assessment and treatment of patients within the wards at Lister Hospital following a Stroke or Neurological diagnosis. You will also be required to actively participate in supervision, mentoring of staff and students, taking part in in-service training, and taking a role in service improvement projects.
To utilise high levels of autonomy and the analysis of information from a wide range of sources, interpreting results to inform assessment and treatment planning.
To work within Trust clinical guidelines, Professional Body and HCPC guidelines, and to have a good working knowledge of both national and local standards and monitor own and others quality of practice as appropriate.
This role involves regular travel between multiple clinic locations across a wide geographical area. The successful candidate must be able to travel independently and reliably between sites within working hours to meet the operational requirements of the service.
To independently plan and carry out assessments in the patients’s own home, if appropriate. This may involve unforeseen exposure to environmental hazards.
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
Hertford County, Hertford
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
