Senior Therapist - Neurology and Stroke | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

We are recruiting a Senior Neurological Therapist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

You will be a Physiotherapist with a passion to provide care to patients with neurological deficits.

This role provides specialist therapy input and management to patients with a neurological diagnosis throughout the acute wards and stroke unit. We have ambition to expand the role to include community stroke rehab in partnership with our community colleagues.

We offer excellent opportunities for new and experienced band 6's wanting to enhance their skills. We would also consider this role as a band 5 to 6 development post. We offer strong professional leadership and development opportunities.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

The main duties of the post include assessment and treatment of stroke and neurological patients within the wards, supervision and mentoring of non-qualified staff and students, taking part in in-service training, and taking a role in service improvement projects.

You will be contributing to the development of the stroke unit and neurological pathways through the hospital to ensure quality and equity of provision across all neurological diagnoses. You will primarily be based on the stroke unit with some outreach to other acute wards as needed.

You will have ability to travel independently across trust sites and be able to carry out weekend working.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage


• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City


• Hertford County, Hertford


• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood


We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.