Senior Physiotherapist | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | 317 Trustwide, NE7 7DN |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6215815/317-2024-15-66-DR |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for physiotherapist to join the Community Response and Rehabilitation Team (CRRT) fixed term for one years.
This is a city-wide MDT service, with the remit of supporting patients in the community to avoid preventable hospital admissions, provide community rehabilitation and to facilitate timely discharge from hospital.
• Interview date: 3rd May 2024
• 37 hours 30 minutes /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.
The role includes:
• Supporting CRRT to be an effective single point of access though telephone triage- to identify patient need and priority, providing initial advice, signposting, and redirecting referrals where appropriate using knowledge of wider services,
• Working flexible shift patterns over 7 days to support urgent response, assessment, and intervention, to patients in crisis,
• Working with the MDT to manage both urgent and routine waiting lists,
• Completing comprehensive MDT assessments for a wide variety of patients
• Interdisciplinary working,
• Physiotherapy assessments and treatment plans.
• Supporting the team with ongoing service improvement
The holistic approach of CRRT will require the post holder to work both autonomously and alongside MDT colleagues, social services, hospital and community teams and multiple agencies in providing a high quality of care for our patients. Full support will be given once in post.
The essential and desirable criteria can be found in the job description.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, we have 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.
• To provide a high standard of physiotherapy assessment, treatment and advice to a complex patient group of older people and intermediate care client group, including orthopaedics
• To consolidate and build on skills and academic knowledge gained during the first two years post graduation
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.
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.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024
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