Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Physiotherapy - Corporate
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 20 hours per week (20 hrs a week)
- Job ref
- 317-2024-29-34-DR
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Freeman Hospital
- Town
- 317 01 Freeman Hospital
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/08/2024
Employer heading
Physiotherapy Technical Instructor
Band 3
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
- Interview Date:16/08/24
- 20 hours/week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
Main duties of the job
- To work as part of the physiotherapy team delivering physiotherapy to patients with chronic respiratory conditions
- Work alongside physiotherapists during assessment and treatment sessions
- Carry out office based duties
- Support the administration team and appointment booking in as required
- To participate in our In Service Training programme and be responsible for own life-long learning
- To be responsible for a caseload of patients as defined by the senior
physiotherapist in the team. - To prioritise own clinical caseload organising care effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical and other priorities and use of time.
- To motivate and encourage patients active participation in all aspects of their physiotherapy care.
- To be responsible for the exercise component of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation programmes seeking advice from a chartered physiotherapist as appropriate i.e. carry out initial assessments, deliver the exercise and facilitate patients to work through an exercise programmes.
Working for our organisation
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Under the supervision of a registered Physiotherapist the Technical Instructor for Pulmonary Rehabilitation will independently manage a designated caseload of patients defined as non-complex within a specified clinical area, providing assessment and interventions on behalf of the physiotherapist within predetermined guidelines
- Patients who are identified as complex will be managed by a registered physiotherapist
- The role has a specific focus on Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Technical qualification e.g. NVQ Level III Diagnostic and Therapeutic Care or equivalent technical/work experience
- Current Valid Driving License
Desirable criteria
- Associate Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Have experience of working as a therapy assistant.
- Have a basic understanding of the principles of physiotherapy clinical practices and procedures within the clinical area.
- An appreciation of the principles of physiotherapy practices and procedures
- An understanding of manual handling principles
- Have a basic understanding of the principles of behaviour and conduct in practice.
- Previous experience of working as a therapy assistant
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with individuals with a physical disability e g mobility problems
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Organisational and time management skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Commitment to personal development
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Ability to reflect and appraise own performance
- IT Skills
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to take responsibility within agreed protocols
- Able to cope with physical demands of post including using wheelchairs and hoists and the therapeutic moving and handling of patients
Desirable criteria
- Advanced IT Skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fran Chambers
- Job title
- Advanced Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2231717
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