Specialist Physiotherapist

Lincolnshire Stroke Service

Specialist Band 6, Physiotherapist

Louth

Are you passionate about providing a high quality service to stroke patients? Are you an ambitious individual who relishes a challenge? Lincolnshire’s Community Stroke Service has been established for over ten years, supporting early discharge from hospitals and providing specialist rehabilitation to stroke patients in Lincolnshire. If you are a team player with a special interest and experience in the area of stroke, look no further, we are now looking to recruit to this exciting vacancy post.

The innovative Stroke Service provides high quality specialist stroke rehabilitation in the community across Lincolnshire. The service has four bases across the county and works as a very flexible team. Your post will require the ability to travel to meet the needs of this county wide service and contribute to providing access to therapy as part of a weekend rota.

You will play a key role in delivering high quality patient centred care and rehabilitation to people who have recently experienced a stroke, in their own homes as well as community settings. You will be working with a full multidisciplinary team of clinical psychologist, specialist physiotherapists, speech and language therapists and occupational therapists, assistant practitioners and rehabilitation assistants.

• To work as an autonomous practitioner and to manage a personal caseload, undertaking assessment and treatment that is evidence based. To organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
• To agree with patients and other team members, an individual rehabilitation programme based on performance outcome at assessment to enable patients to achieve maximum potential.
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work at all times.
• Develop and consolidate personal knowledge and skills demonstrating the evidence in a CPD portfolio.
• Adhere to the professional Code of Practice
• To be an active member of the in-service training programme by attending staff meetings, training sessions, external courses and reflective practice. To lead these activities where appropriate.
• Demonstrates continuous appraisal of personal practice and acts on indicators for change.
• Takes responsibility, as required, for making decisions in respect of accepting referrals and discharging patients from the service.
• Assist the Team Lead/Professional Advisor to develop and maintain a service structure that delivers best practice.
• Be proactive in the evaluation of clinical services including the development, implementation and monitoring of clinical standards and outcome measures.
• Ensure service performance data is collected as agreed and when submitted is accurate and timely.

LCHS Way

We Listen, We Care, We Act, We Improve

We listen: we engage with everyone we work with, we are united, we are always positive

We care: everyone is valued, respected and developed, knowledge and skills are nurtured, success is celebrated

We act: clear goals and right resources, freedom coupled with accountability, emphasis on simplicity

We improve: we are creative, resourceful and innovative, integrated and collaboration is the way forward, we're always striving to do better

Fit for now, fit for the future.

It is an exciting time to work in stroke rehabilitation in Lincolnshire, we are working towards the recently published Integrated Community Stroke Service model from NHSE. There are many innovative areas of service development happening, all with the aim of improving and shaping the future of the stroke service for patients to be ‘fit for our own families’, building on a model that works well and is well-respected within the organisation. There are opportunities for staff at all levels to get involved and influence these service developments.

• Identify professional and service delivery issues concerning the clinical specialism and advise the team lead.
• To be proactive and contribute to the design and delivery of change within your field of practice and support other team members in these changes.
• To give leadership and support in the use of risk assessment and guidance in the safe handling of patients to colleagues, carers and other team members.
• Maintain a personal development plan and seek opportunities to acquire necessary knowledge and skills to maintain and develop professional competency.
• Lead in the theoretical and practical training of undergraduates and junior colleagues and Rehabilitation Assistants/Assistant Practitioners on topics associated with the clinical specialism.
• Respond positively to organisation change and be flexible within work practices depending on needs of service.
• Provide expert guidance and support to colleagues in the management of the complications of a stroke.
• Support equality and value diversity.
• Lincolnshire Community Health Service requires all staff to safeguard children, young people and adults. All staff are required to access the organisational policies, also the Local Safeguarding Children Board and the Local Safeguarding Adults Board policies and procedures that underpin the safeguarding agenda. The safeguarding policies to be followed are found at www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk and www.lincolnshire.gov.uk .
• LCHS policies, procedures and guideline - It is a condition of your employment that as an employee you are expected to adhere to our policies, procedures and guidelines. These can all be found on the Trust’s website.