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Job summary

Main area
Physiotherapy
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (FTC for 12 months)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
220-WHT-3954
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Outlook Centre
Town
London
Salary
£47,951 - £56,863 Per Annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/06/2026 23:59

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Whittington Health NHS Trust logo

Specialist Stroke Physiotherapist - Islington - FTC 12 months

Band 6

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Job overview

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.

 

Main duties of the job

         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.

 

 

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

 Please see Job Description for further details 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy
  • Registration with the Health Professions Council
Desirable criteria
  • Attendance on courses related to Neurological Physiotherapy e.g. Basic Bobath course
  • Member of the CSP and relevant Clinical Interest group e.g.ACPIN

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Essential IT skills, including Word and PowerPoint
  • Demonstrates ICARE values

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of running groups
  • Experience of organising, writing and delivering in-service training programmes
  • Experience of involvement in clinical governance/service improvement initiatives
  • Previous experience working within the NHS
  • Previous experience working independently in a community setting
  • previous experience of MDT working
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of taking physiotherapy students on clinical practice placements
  • Experience of working with the voluntary sector
  • Experience of supervising junior and non-qualified staff, including participation in personal development reviews

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of current NHS priorities and policy
  • Understanding of clinical governance activity and its application to physiotherapy services and practice.
  • Knowledge of Physiotherapy professional issues.
  • Knowledge of the stroke strategy, and the NSF for long term conditions and related frameworks
  • Knowledge of other medical conditions which you may encounter including, but not exclusively, respiratory, orthopaedics and conditions of old age
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of attendance of post-graduate training related to the post
  • knowledge of the audit cycle and its uses.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Juliet Benton
Job title
Speciality Service Manager - Therapies
Email address
[email protected]

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