Band 7 Clinical Specialist Neurology Physiotherapist - Acute Medicine

Permanent | 31.8 hours per week

Come and join a forward-thinking, driven Acute Medicine Therapy Team that prioritises patient care and your professional and personal development. We are seeking a positive, proactive clinician with leadership and specialist Neurology skills to help build a strong future for therapy.

• Role Overview: You will manage a clinical caseload, providing advanced specialist assessment and intervention for patients in ringfenced Neurology beds and across medical wards.
• Responsibilities:
  • Offer advice and guidance to therapists managing complex Neurology patients elsewhere in the hospital.
  • Support team members and students, contributing to their training and development.
  • Play a key role in service development, ensuring alignment with national guidelines and up-to-date evidence-based Neurology practice.
  • Work closely with the wider multidisciplinary team to achieve the best patient outcomes.

We are an integrated department of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, dietitians and assistants, with strong links across the multidisciplinary team and community colleagues. Core hours are 08:00-16:00 with flexibility available. You will also contribute to the Acute Medicine Therapy Team seven-day roster.

Key Duties:

• Manage a complex caseload of neurological patients, including traumatic brain injury, Guillain-Barré syndrome, functional neurological disorder, MND, MS, and Parkinson’s among others.
• Support and train team members, requiring strong prioritisation, organisational and time management skills to balance clinical and non-clinical duties.
• Use advanced assessment skills to formulate, implement and evaluate individualised treatment and rehabilitation plans.
• Advanced communication skills are essential to support a multidisciplinary approach and maintain effective dialogue with the team and wider colleagues.
• Provide tailored training and support to develop the wider team’s Neurology skills.
• Undertake non-clinical duties including chairing meetings, contributing to in-service development, and training/supervising students, therapy assistant practitioners and Band 5 and 6 colleagues, including formal appraisal documentation.
• Involved in measuring and evaluating practice through evidence-based projects, audit and outcome measures, enabling you to recommend and lead change within Neurology.
• Ensure adequate staffing levels, absence management and staff wellbeing in the absence of a Team Leader.