Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, proactive and self-motivated physiotherapist, with excellent caseload management and communication skills to work within the Community Response Service Physiotherapy team predominantly based within the North Tyneside locality, with opportunities to work trustwide.
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 and Technical Instructors.
If you would like to discuss the post further, we welcome visits from interested candidates.
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
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 -
- To ensure service provision is prioritised and service delivery is made effectively within resource constraints.
- To deliver a comprehensive service for a complex case load.
- To manage a defined caseload of patients, using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
- To assess for and monitor the provision of adaptations when appropriate.
- To provide clinical education, supervision and support to staff and students within the specialist field and Community Response Services.
- To provide specialist advice to families, carers, and other health and social care professionals.
- To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of Physiotherapy services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects through specialist interest and steering groups.
- To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Community Response Service across Northumbria Healthcare Trust. To practice within the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist Physiotherapy assessments, diagnosis and treatment using clinical reasoning skills.
About us
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.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides a number of staff benefits including personal car lease scheme, discounted gym membership & attractive pension scheme.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide efficient and effective facilitation of the patient journey through hospital and in community, to achieve safe and timely discharge, seamless transitions and help avoid unnecessary admission and re admission to hospital
- To carry out triage and responder duties, as part of a team rota
- To carry out appraisals with junior and support staff, as delegated by Team Lead
- Managerially responsible to Team Lead
- Clinically responsible to Physio Clinical Lead
- 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 promoteownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Documented evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Experience of providing Physiotherapy in varied settings.
- Community experience
- Leadership experience.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub
Avenue Road
Seaton Delaval
NE25 0QJ
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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