Specialist Physiotherapist SCICNHS

Job summary

We are looking for a Band 6 Physiotherapist to join us and become a specialist clinician in the London Spinal Cord Injury Centre Therapy department. Someone to be a part of the team, provide leadership and develop the service to continue to provide the best for our patients. The team provides rehabilitation and reintegration programmes for all age ranges and injury levels, from acute intervention through to reassessment of people with long standing needs. Clinical activity takes place in inpatient and outpatient settings at RNOH, as well as outreach and consultancy to other agencies. As a specialist centre, we have excellent links with other SCI centres around the country and share expertise with other specialist services here at Stanmore.

We are recruiting to two full-time (37.5 hours per week) posts: 1 permanent and 1 fixed-term contract for 12 months

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a physiotherapist who has:

3 years post graduate experience with at least 6 months experience working in spinal cord injury or neuro-rehabilitation.

Excellent clinical reasoning skills

Good organisational skills

Job description

The post holder will provide a high standard physiotherapy service to patients during their first episode of rehabilitation, inpatient re-admissions and outpatients as part of a broad MDT. As a non-rotational physiotherapist they will contribute to the development and delivery of the service.

About us

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world's most complex and innovative care to our patients.

RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility.

For more information, please access the following link: https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/