Specialist Physiotherapist – Brain Injury Rehabilitation

Job Description

About The Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

• Takes a lead role for a designated clinical area with a caseload incorporating patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge. Has responsibility for the supervision, education and development of more junior staff, physiotherapy support workers and students within the speciality.
• Provides a specialised resource to other healthcare staff/patients/carers.
• Has active involvement in Clinical Governance and Clinical Effectiveness and Research

In this key role, you will:

• Act independently to assess, analyse clinical and non-clinical information and provide highly specialist and comprehensive clinical diagnosis for individual patients to determine their need for physiotherapy intervention. This includes patients with complex presentations
• Manage an identifiable caseload of patients effectively and efficiently, utilising current literature and research – may be identified as a key worker within the multi-professional team, eg. stroke rehabilitation.
• Participate in, and lead, within the specialist area, the departmental Personal Development and Planning Review process to promote personal and service development
• Actively develop, implement and participate in Physiotherapy Department and specialty team in-service training programme to promote own personal development and that of staff

What You’ll Bring

• Registered Physiotherapist with valid HCPC Registration
• Educated to/working towards/operating at Degree Level
• Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice.

What we Offer

• Annual Leave – 35 days including public holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent – regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.