Static Specialist Physiotherapist
Posting date: | 12 July 2024 |
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Salary: | Not specified |
Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata per annum |
Hours: | Part time |
Closing date: | 11 August 2024 |
Location: | North Shields, NE28 9NH |
Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
Job type: | Permanent |
Job reference: | 6439824/319-6439824MH |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to become part of our dynamic neuro-elderly service at North Tyneside General Hospital.
The successful applicant will work within our COTE in-patient team and provide specialist physiotherapy to patients cared for across our wards including Acute elderly medicine, Gastroenterology, Surgery, Palliative Care Unit, Mental Health Service for Older People and the Urgent Treatment Centre.
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.
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.
• To assess, diagnose and treat an independent clinical caseload.
• To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the guidance and support of more
experienced 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 individual’s specialist skills across a range of therapeutic modalities.
OR
2) a static post within one of the above sub-specialist teams. This role will incorporate
inpatient, 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.
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Jul 2024
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