Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner

An exciting opportunity to join our busy team as an Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner. To assist in the planning, delivery and evaluation of the Physiotherapy and Clinical Assessment and Triage Service (CATS) provided within the Joint Musculoskeletal And Pain Service (JMAPS) in Northumberland. JMAPS CATS clinics are based at Hexham General Hospital, Wansbeck General Hospital, Alnwick Infirmary and Berwick Infirmary as well as some smaller community sites. To also supervise and coordinate the delegation of treatment tasks and other non clinical duties to qualified and unqualified staff. You must be organised and offer highly specialist advise e.g. case conferences, multi-disciplinary meetings, service planning and development meetings.
- To work within the normal scope of Physiotherapy with the responsibility for triage and ongoing management of highly complex patients referred for a consultant opinion.
- To provide an advanced level of clinical expertise in the assessment, diagnosis and management of highly complex patients, providing an expert Physiotherapy resource to primary care and secondary care.
- Working across Northumbria Healthcare NHS trust as a lead specialist clinician within the Physiotherapy service providing highly specialised advice & programmes of care.
- To work independently and autonomously managing a varied and highly complex caseload requiring expert clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills.
- To provide clinical education, training, supervision and support to all grades of Physiotherapy staff and students within the speciality area.

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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? 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, this is the Northumbria Way
- To plan and implement training at a university and multi professional level in order to enhance services within the specialism and ensure effective clinical practice across Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust.
- The post holder will initiate, facilitate and participate in research and audit within the specialism.
- To be responsible for standards of physiotherapy practice within a defined sub
- specialist field.
- To support the clinical managers in planning and service development.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.