Job Description

At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare. And each of us is responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing the boundaries and transforming the patient experience, every day.

We all have the power to help, heal and change lives \xe2\x80\x94 beginning with our own. That\xe2\x80\x99s the power of the Cleveland Clinic Health System team, and The Power of Every One.

Job Summary

Who are we?

Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, focused on providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 65,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.

We opened our first healthcare facility in London in 2021 and our state-of-the art 184 bed hospital in 2022. With over 100 years of history, our \xe2\x80\x9cPatients First\xe2\x80\x9d philosophy will be at the heart of Cleveland Clinic London and the goal of our team is to create an environment that continues to delivers world-class clinical care.

What are we looking for?

We are recruiting a Specialist Physiotherapist - Neuro Rehab to assess, treat and manage their own caseload developing specialist physiotherapy skills within neurological and neuro-rehabilitation physiotherapy.

The role will form the highly effective, innovative and evidenced based therapy provision across all inpatient neurological / neuro-rehabilitation services, working with the lead in the specialist areas.

There will be opportunities to develop clinical and non-clinical specialist skills as well as experience within research, service development and progression into future leadership. There is an expectation this role will complete on-call and weekend service provision, developing specialist skills along the way.

The role will involve supported supervision of Therapy Assistants and have supportive individualised supervision and performance development with Senior Physiotherapists. There will also be opportunities to work within our \xe2\x80\x9cteam of teams\xe2\x80\x9d model of care alongside specialists within their areas.

What will your duties include?

Be legally and professionally responsible for all aspects of your work including safe and effective management of you clinical and non-clinical caseloads.

Effectively apply clinical reasoning to assess, progress, adapt and treat patients seeking guidance at appropriate times to ensure safe and effective care.

Be able to identify risk within clinical setting including deteriorating patients and potential safety issues around care and discharge and communicate this effectively with support as appropriate.

Educate and train physiotherapists and other MDT members with innovation and passion around the role of physiotherapy and rehabilitation.

Take a proactive lead in using routine outcome measures to improve patient care.

Provide highly supportive supervision and coaching to physiotherapists and students.

Keep informed of evidence, changes to practice, relevant research and guidance to discuss at regular opportunities to progress and develop own / MDT practice.

Identify areas of research and quality improvement priorities to add to wider physiotherapy development strategy.

Be actively involved in appropriate and discussed audit and research activities within the department, supporting the therapy leadership team with departmental strategies and priorities.

What we need from you:

Degree in relevant AHP area

Current registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Experience as a registered physiotherapist in an acute hospital setting

Evidence of a broad based of registered physiotherapy experience across specialties including neurological / neuro-rehabilitation, orthopedics, surgical and medical specialties. Respiratory experience is desirable

Evidence of training / experience in appraisal and supervision of other Caregivers such as assistants/students

Effective and adaptable communication using a variety of verbal and written techniques to the needs of the patient, family and wider MDT.

We can offer you:

• 25 days annual leave
• Auto-Enrolment of 5% pension, and we\xe2\x80\x99ll contribute 10% on top of that
• Gym facilities located within our Admin Office Building at a discounted rate
• Season ticket loans
• Private Medical Insurance

If you would like to know more, please email recruitment@ccf.org or click apply below.

Please see Important Information below:

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.

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