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Job summary

Main area
Physiotherapy
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (pro rata per annum)
Job ref
319-6411588KD
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Blyth Harbour Suite
Town
Blyth
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 pro rata per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Physiotherapist

Band 6

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, proactive and self-motivated physiotherapist, with excellent caseload management and communication skills to work within the Short Term Support Service Team within the Blyth locality. 

This role aims to enable patients with a wide variety of conditions to be as independent as possible within their own environment by providing specialist physiotherapy assessment and interventions. The team comprises of registered Physiotherapists, registered Occupational Therapists, Technical Instructors and Occupational Therapy Assistants

If you would like to discuss the post further, we welcome visits from interested candidates.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will need to be flexible in their approach to the role. We follow an integrated therapeutic approach to client intervention and are looking to recruit people with a broad experience within MSK, falls, neurological conditions and general elderly frail conditions/ multiple co morbidities.

The main duties of this role include -

  • Triage and prioritise new referrals received into the service
  • Responsibility for a designated varied caseload of patients: to organise this effectively and efficiently with regards to clinical priorities and use of time.
  • To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations using clinical reasoning skills.
  • Support patients with individualised goal setting, education and care plans to work towards fulfilling their potential in a goal orientated way. Working in partnership with patients, relatives, reablement staff, and externally with other agencies.
  • Completing all required training and ensuring own continued professional development.
  • To provide line management, supervision, support, guidance and training to Technical Instructors and students.

 

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides a number of staff benefits including personal car lease scheme, discounted gym membership & attractive pension scheme.

Working for our organisation

As a trust, we manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our  state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy, please see the attached Job description and Person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • BSC Hons Degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent.
  • HCPC Registration.
  • Student clinical educator qualification with experience of supervising students or willing to undertake training within 18 months of commencement.
  • Post Graduate training relevant to specialist area.
  • Extensive relevant postgraduate training in specialist field
  • Recognised training qualification and experience in the supervision of undergraduate students
Desirable criteria
  • Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Documented evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of providing Physiotherapy in varied settings.
  • Community experience
  • Leadership experience.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Louise Gebhard
Job title
Physiotherapy Locality Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07812391353
Additional information

Mark Wright - Physiotherapy Locality Lead

07814636819

 

 

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