Specialist Physiotherapist

1 month ago


North Shields, United Kingdom Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to become part of our dynamic neuro-elderly service. The successful person will rotate across two of our main sites of North Tyneside General Hospital and The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital.

This rotational post will work with the following services - COTE, Stroke in-patients wards, Hyper Acute Stroke Unit, off site Rehabilitation Units, Neuro- Rehabilitation Team. Front of House and Paediatrics.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

Applicants must be able to demonstrate experience as a Band 5 Physiotherapist in elderly care, Neurology and have some respiratory experience. Skills within orthopaedics would be advantages.

The successful applicant must also demonstrate excellent communication skills with both the multidisciplinary team and peers. There must be evidence of continued professional development demonstrating experience to support applications.

Applicants will be expected to participate in our 7-day working rota. It is noted that in the future some posts may not be traditional Monday to Friday as we embrace full 7 day working.

It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.

About us

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To assess, diagnose and treat an independent clinical caseload. To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the guidance and support of moreexperienced highly specialist senior physiotherapy staff. To provide a high standard of physiotherapy care through one of the following;

1) a full range of specialist areas including musculo-skeletal, orthopaedics, elderly care, general medicine, respiratory, neurology, paediatrics, surgery and ITU. The rotational element of the role develops individuals specialist skills across a range of therapeutic modalities.

OR

2) a static post within one of the above sub-specialist teams. This role will incorporateinpatient, outpatient and community activity in both primary and secondary care settings and support the development of specialist skills and knowledge.

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent experience and/or qualification Member of the Health Professionals Council Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

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