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Physiotherapy Technical Instructor

Job details
Posting date: 07 May 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £25,147 - £27,596 Per annum
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 06 June 2024
Location: North Shields, NE29 8NH
Company: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6235259/319-6235259RG

Summary

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


This is an exciting opportunity to join the Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy team within NTIMS (North Tyneside Integrated Musculoskeletal Service). The post-holder will mainly be based at North Tyneside General Hospital, working in the main musculoskeletal outpatients department, gym-based functional rehabilitation classes, but may also be required to work at other sites.





The post would require the applicant to be competent in assessing and issuing appropriate walking aids. They would be required to assist the Physiotherapists in the treatment of their patients, working to defined protocols and treatment plans, but being confident to advise regarding basic treatment progressions without direct supervision. The successful applicant would be expected to manage their own clinical caseload of non-complex conditions. The applicant would be required to oversee preplanned gym sessions and apply basic progressions of treatment.

NTIMS (North Tyneside Integrated Musculoskeletal Service) is the musculoskeletal Physiotherapy service in North Tyneside and is part of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Based at North Tyneside Hospital we also provide clinics at GP practices around the region.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust manages 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.

Main duties of this role will include;
• To work under the supervision of a qualified Physiotherapist to implement treatment programmes for individual patients or groups of patients.
• To assist Physiotherapists in the treatment of their patients, working to defined protocols and treatment plans.
• To carry own clinical caseload of non complex conditions.
• Demonstrate and apply the underpinning knowledge to modify and progress patient treatment programmes without direct supervision.
• To be responsible for the overall hygiene & maintenance of the department and equipment.

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualification and/or experience is essential to this role. Basic IT skills are also essential and driving licence is desirable.


This advert closes on Tuesday 21 May 2024

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