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Physiotherapist -Static Musculoskeletal (JMAPS)

Job details
Posting date: 15 March 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 14 April 2024
Location: Ashington, NE63 9JJ
Company: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 5873467/319-5873467LW

Summary

A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.


Applications are invited from Physiotherapists who are interested in a static Band 5 level role in musculoskeletal outpatients as part of our JMAPS (Joint musculoskeletal and Pain Service) team. Experience will be gained within uni-professional, as well as multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary working. Clients will be referred by GP, self referral or via our orthopaedic consultant team. Staff may be required to work across the trust however the base site will be Wansbeck General Hospital .

CPD is actively encouraged within our teams and training is supervised by Senior Physiotherapy clinicians supporting staff to achieve their individual learning outcomes supported by a robust appraisal system.

To assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for an individual musculoskeletal clinical caseload.

With guidance from senior physiotherapists, maintain a high level of evidence based practice through continual review of current research, thus enhancing standards of patient care.

To identify patients’ capacity to consent to treatment and apply the departments consent protocol.

To actively participate in the planning and organisation of the discharge process.

To contribute to the supervision of technical instructors and physiotherapy assistants.

To maintain a high standard of clinical record keeping in accordance with CSP guidelines and trust wide physiotherapy standards for documentation.

To maintain patient records using electronic systems.


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! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

To assess and treat an independent physiotherapy caseload.

To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the supervision of senior physiotherapy staff.

The static element of the role consolidates undergraduate skills and knowledge across a range of therapeutic modalities.

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.


This advert closes on Monday 1 Apr 2024

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