# Specialist Neuro Physiotherapist

**Company**: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Woolwich
**Salary**: £45953.00 to £54254.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Greenwich Neuro Rehabilitation Team is a dynamic community service which provides high-quality specialist rehabilitation to people living with stroke or a neurological condition. The team is growing and we are looking for a Specialist Physiotherapist to join us. The successful post holder will provide clinical input to patients within their homes or clinical settings and support the running of groups. They will work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team comprising Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Psychologists, Community Matrons, and AHP support staff.

The Specialist Neuro Physiotherapist will:

- Provide an effective and efficient specialist physiotherapy service to adults with acquired neurological conditions

- Manage a specialist caseload, including those with complex needs, involving assessment, diagnosis, therapy, planning therapy programmes, and discharging patients

- Work autonomously as a lone practitioner in the community

- Demonstrate specialist theoretical knowledge of complex acute and long-term pathologies and impairments in patient assessments

- Conduct thorough holistic assessments, obtaining consent in accordance with professional guidelines and local team procedures

- Recommend appropriate physiotherapy interventions to promote independence and safety, utilizing effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice

- Complete individual plans of care for patients requiring input from integrated community services

- Maintain effective multidisciplinary communication with other team members and the wider clinical network

- Provide specialist physiotherapy advice and support to clients, carers, and relatives based on clinical evidence and reasoning

- Use highly specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgments and decision-making for case management

- Ensure safe and effective provision, installation, and demonstration of equipment

- Participate in and lead MDT meetings and complex family conferences as appropriate

- Ensure management of clinical risk with complex patients, using advanced clinical reasoning skills

- Identify when and how to terminate involvement or refer onwards to appropriate teams/services

- Seek guidance from more experienced colleagues when required

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## Skills

### Required
- specialist physiotherapy
- neuro rehabilitation
- clinical reasoning
- evidence-based practice
- multidisciplinary communication

### Nice to have
- NHS experience
- community rehabilitation experience
- relevant neuro courses attended

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