Static Senior Physiotherapist - Acute and OPM
| Posting date: | 29 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,970 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 28 June 2025 |
| Location: | Norwich, NR4 7UY |
| Company: | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7243661/234-24-CS3250-A |
Summary
A Vacancy at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital is a leading teaching hospital with world-class facilities. Physiotherapy is playing an instrumental role in the exciting developments in the Trust and our team is growing. Our patients rate us highly on quality of care and having friendly approachable staff. We are looking for like-minded individuals to join us and take advantage of the opportunities we have on offer.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Acute and Older Persons Medicine Team. We are looking for an experienced Physiotherapist with a specialist interest in supporting older adults recovering from acute illness.
As a team we are committed to providing Physiotherapy intervention in parallel with medical treatment. The wider multidisciplinary team value our role in assessing patients respiratory function during their hospital journey, informing ongoing acute care planning, alongside our therapeutic skills supporting early mobility and function to manage and prevent deconditioning.
We will consider applications for band 5 to 6 progressive opportunities within this role.
Our clinical caseload is varied and embedded in a culture of education, development, and service improvement. Excellent communication skills and a willingness to develop yourself and others around you are essential. In turn this exciting role offers you the opportunity to develop both your clinical and non-clinical skills with access to in-service training and personal development. Weekend working will be required within the role.
As post holder you will:
• Work within a team of Physiotherapists and Physiotherapy Assistants undertaking a variety of clinical and non-clinical tasks to support the delivery of physiotherapy services to patients with a home first ethos, promoting early mobilisation and function.
• Support junior and student staff, delegate to junior and assistant staff and have a role in teaching opportunities, including our band 5 induction programme.
• Have a strong knowledge of frailty and the aging adult, effective communication skills and a drive to provide quality care to our patients.
Part time: 23.5 hours per week
Interview date: 18th June 2025
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
• Flexible working hours
• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
• Multi Faith prayer room
• Discounted gym memberships
• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
• Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
• Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
• On-site Nursery
• On-site cafes offering staff discounts
• Support in career development
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work.
• To maintain a high standard of clinical care for patients under your management.
• To accept clinical responsibility for a defined caseload of patients and to organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time
• To use communication tools (verbal and non-verbal) and assess understanding of treatment proposals to gain valid informed consent. With support, to work within a legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment.
• To collect relevant patient information from a variety of sources e.g. radiology imaging systems, other investigations to assist with clinical prioritisation and patient management. This may also include ward handovers, observation charts, medical and nursing records etc.
• To undertake the comprehensive specialist assessment of patients using investigative and analytical skills.
• To make a clinical diagnosis based on presenting signs and symptoms.
• To formulate an individual management and/or treatment programme using clinical reasoning and a wide range of treatment skills and options.
• Factors to consider may include altered sensation, decreased perceptual awareness, decreased muscle power, abnormal muscle tone, pre-morbid status.
• To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date clinical records in line with legal and departmental requirements.
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
This advert closes on Monday 9 Jun 2025
The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital is a leading teaching hospital with world-class facilities. Physiotherapy is playing an instrumental role in the exciting developments in the Trust and our team is growing. Our patients rate us highly on quality of care and having friendly approachable staff. We are looking for like-minded individuals to join us and take advantage of the opportunities we have on offer.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Acute and Older Persons Medicine Team. We are looking for an experienced Physiotherapist with a specialist interest in supporting older adults recovering from acute illness.
As a team we are committed to providing Physiotherapy intervention in parallel with medical treatment. The wider multidisciplinary team value our role in assessing patients respiratory function during their hospital journey, informing ongoing acute care planning, alongside our therapeutic skills supporting early mobility and function to manage and prevent deconditioning.
We will consider applications for band 5 to 6 progressive opportunities within this role.
Our clinical caseload is varied and embedded in a culture of education, development, and service improvement. Excellent communication skills and a willingness to develop yourself and others around you are essential. In turn this exciting role offers you the opportunity to develop both your clinical and non-clinical skills with access to in-service training and personal development. Weekend working will be required within the role.
As post holder you will:
• Work within a team of Physiotherapists and Physiotherapy Assistants undertaking a variety of clinical and non-clinical tasks to support the delivery of physiotherapy services to patients with a home first ethos, promoting early mobilisation and function.
• Support junior and student staff, delegate to junior and assistant staff and have a role in teaching opportunities, including our band 5 induction programme.
• Have a strong knowledge of frailty and the aging adult, effective communication skills and a drive to provide quality care to our patients.
Part time: 23.5 hours per week
Interview date: 18th June 2025
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
• Flexible working hours
• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
• Multi Faith prayer room
• Discounted gym memberships
• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
• Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
• Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
• On-site Nursery
• On-site cafes offering staff discounts
• Support in career development
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work.
• To maintain a high standard of clinical care for patients under your management.
• To accept clinical responsibility for a defined caseload of patients and to organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time
• To use communication tools (verbal and non-verbal) and assess understanding of treatment proposals to gain valid informed consent. With support, to work within a legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment.
• To collect relevant patient information from a variety of sources e.g. radiology imaging systems, other investigations to assist with clinical prioritisation and patient management. This may also include ward handovers, observation charts, medical and nursing records etc.
• To undertake the comprehensive specialist assessment of patients using investigative and analytical skills.
• To make a clinical diagnosis based on presenting signs and symptoms.
• To formulate an individual management and/or treatment programme using clinical reasoning and a wide range of treatment skills and options.
• Factors to consider may include altered sensation, decreased perceptual awareness, decreased muscle power, abnormal muscle tone, pre-morbid status.
• To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date clinical records in line with legal and departmental requirements.
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
This advert closes on Monday 9 Jun 2025