Neonatal Lead for Physiotherapy - London, United Kingdom - Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Children's Physiotherapy service for Hackney and The City is an innovative and supportive team offering high quality services to our diverse East London community and beyond.

This is a new and exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician with highly specialist skills to join our friendly team of AHPs at Homerton Hospital, all committed to giving babies the best start in life

The post holder will provide high quality assessment and intervention to infants, provide clinical supervision to the other Physiotherapists on the neonatal unit and support the unit to achieve its broader aims.

Our Clinical Lead Specialists also offer professional advice and clinical leadership in their specialist area, ensuring that our service remains evidence-based, high quality and child/family focused.

The post holder will work closely with colleagues in other neonatal units and the London Neonatal Operational Delivery Network forging strong collaborative working practices to better meet the needs of the babies on the neonatal unit.

They will work closely with the clinical lead for Children's Physiotherapy to establish workplans and consider areas of development.

The post holder will work with AHP, medical and nursing colleagues as well as families to support the unit to work towards best practice care across the multi-disciplinary neonatal service, including the provision of Family Integrated Care, The Unicef Baby Friendly Initiative and Developmental Care.

This includes identifying training needs, developing and delivering training to a variety of audiences.

We are looking for someone with proven clinical skills and experience in managing infants in a neonatal unit alongside skills in management and leadership as well as enthusiasm for developing the existing service.

This post is advertised as 0.6 WTE. Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment would be an advantage.

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients.

In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.

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 knowledge required.

For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page.