Clinical Lead AHP Rapid Access Acute Rehab (RAAR) | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 26 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £64,156 - £71,148 per annum inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 October 2025 |
| Location: | London, E1 1FR |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7509869/259-7509869RLH |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work with the Royal London multidisciplinary neurotrauma and rehabilitation team to provide clinical and operational leadership to our Rapid Access Acute Rehabilitation (RAAR) pathway. The RAAR pathway is funded by NHSe, in each of the 4 Major Trauma Centres in London. This pathway has been developed to provide hyperacute neurorehabilitation for adults with neurological and traumatic injuries including traumatic brain injury.
You will be directly supported by the 8b AHP Clinical Lead for Neurosciences, Trauma and Neurological Rehabilitation. You will provide expert clinical leadership and work closely with speciality lead clinicians and the Emergency Care and Trauma Divisional Triumverates. You will also work closely with the other Clinical Therapy Leads and Therapy leadership team.
In this role, you work closely with the RAAR Neurological Rehab consultant assessing patients for the RAAR pathway and reviewing them on weekly ward round. You will also provide daily operational management of the RAAR pathway, ensuring safe patient flow through the pathway and delivery of the NHSE Key Performance Indicators.
The post holder will work collaboratively, alongside the neurotrauma clinical leads and RAAR multidisciplinary team to deliver excellent evidence based clinical care, improvements within patient experience and clinical outcomes.
The post holder will provide clinical and operational leadership to the Rapid access acute rehabilitation service (RAAR). The post holder will take responsibility for the assessment and admission of patients onto the RAAR pathway including coordination of patient care and optimization of flow to ensure timely discharge from the pathway.
The post holder will lead on complex case discussions and clinical decision making for those with neurological and traumatic injuries with regards to appropriate intervention and discharge destinations.
In conjunction with the 8b AHP clinical lead for Neurosciences, Trauma and Rehabilitation they will ensure that the RAAR pathway continues to develop and evolve providing a high quality service that is evidence based.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledgerequired. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
This advert closes on Sunday 12 Oct 2025