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Specialist Physiotherapist - Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery

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Posting date: 10 October 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 09 November 2024
Location: 317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary, NE1 4LP
Company: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6697130/317-2024-41-19-DR

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Summary

A Vacancy at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


The Hands, Burns, and Reconstructive Surgery team are delighted to offer the opportunity to join the team working in this dynamic specialty. As a regional Burns Centre, the highest level of patients are served by us, and therefore is a significant asset to those with a special interest in the field. The caseload also covers both adult and paediatric patients, offering the scope to further develop skills in treating this variety of patients.

The role of a band 6 within the team will advance your knowledge and skills across the breadth of the specialty as part of a rotation, as well as offer the opportunity to share your expertise with band 5 and students, and through in-service training with peers. There is a strong quality improvement focus at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and all staff are encouraged and supported to deliver on service developments.

There are 2 vacancies which will be recruited from this application; 1 permanent and 1 fixed to May 2026.
• Interview date: 31st October 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
• Delivering a high standard of physiotherapy care – patient focused and tailored to the individual
• Liaising with MDT and sharing progress and plans of patient care
• Supervising students and support staff
• Teaching across the department, MDT and where required
• Involvement in service evaluation and service development
• Deputising for band 7 when appropriate
• Weekend working as part of a team
• On-call respiratory as part of a roster

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 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 care to a complex patient group of Adults and Paediatrics within the Plastic Surgery Directorate which is a regional speciality.
• Band 6 posts are designed to consolidate and build on skills and academic knowledge gained during the first few years post-graduation allowing the physiotherapist an opportunity to spend longer in specific areas of work enabling development of more specialist clinical and managerial competencies

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 Sunday 20 Oct 2024

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