Band 7 Amputee Rehabilitation Physiotherapist
Posting date: | 05 February 2025 |
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Salary: | Not specified |
Additional salary information: | £54,320 - £60,981 per annum |
Hours: | Full time |
Closing date: | 07 March 2025 |
Location: | London, SW15 5PN |
Company: | st georges nhs trust |
Job type: | Permanent |
Job reference: | 6956367/200-NN-6956367-AHP-Y |
Summary
To provide a comprehensive, holistic rehabilitation programme for amputees attending Roehampton Rehabilitation Centre as out-patients, or as in-patients in the Douglas Bader Unit at Queen Marys Hospital.
To give expert advice to the prosthetic and medical clinics within the centre, other physiotherapists and members of the Multidisciplinary Team including students.
To organise and carry out local and national educational programmes and courses for physiotherapist and other members of the Multidisciplinary Team including students.
Prosthetic rehabilitation at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton has an international reputation. Therapists routinely deal with a multicultural client group, and high profile clients who attract media interest.
Be responsible for the provision of expert physiotherapy input for the rehabilitation of all amputees referred to the service. This will include primary amputees and thosewith multiple limb loss, who are empowered through specialist physiotherapyintervention to achieve the optimum level of independence and mobility whether they use an artificial limb.
This will involve working collaboratively withthe Multidisciplinary Team at the centre and be a source of expert advice to patients, carers and other clinicians involved in the patients' care.
To assist in the organisation and delivery of educational programmes in this speciality.
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Please see attached job description and person specification for the comprehensive description of the roles responsibilities
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Feb 2025
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