Specialist Physiotherapist NWVU | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	31 July 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£38,682 - £46,580 per annum (pro rata)
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	30 August 2025
Location:	Wythenshawe Manchester, M23 9LT
Company:	Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7375358/349-WTWA-7375358

Summary

Specialist Band 6 Physiotherapist North West Ventilation Service

Part Time 22.5hours per week Wednesday to Friday

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and dedicated Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our well-established multi-disciplinary team in the North West Ventilation Service. This role would suit someone who is looking to gain experience with all aspects of long term ventilation, weaning and cough augmentation. The post will incorporate some weekend working and an expectation to join the overnight Physiotherapy on call rota for the main department.

The North West Ventilation Service is a tertiary referral centre in the North West region, caring for patients requiring domiciliary non-invasive/invasive ventilation and cough augmentation adjuncts. Our clients include patients with chronic respiratory disease, neuromuscular diseases and obesity related breathing disorders. We additionally provide specialist weaning support and interventions to complex patients as part of our regional ventilation weaning programme. Services are delivered from a dedicated 12 bedded inpatient unit with an adjoining outpatient area and additionally within patient's own homes. There is extensive and well established multi-disciplinary working at all levels.

The department is committed to CPD and moving the Governments’ initiatives forward. Applicants must have a broad range of post graduate experience. They should also be enthusiastic, motivated, dynamic and a team player.

To help deliver a comprehensive physiotherapy service to patients in the area of specialty that you are working in.

To perform advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with a diverse and often complex presentation. You will require excellent clinical reasoning to develop and deliver individual treatment programs and plan appropriate discharges, and be able to prioritise to clinical need.

To be responsible for organising and managing your own caseload to meet service need and patient priorities.

Be able to support, appraise and educate more junior staff, rehabilitation assistants and students.

Support your team leaders and deputise as required.

To have excellent communication skills with patients, relatives and be able to show empathy and understanding

Work as part of the therapy team and wider MDT demonstrating excellent communication skills.

Maintain Confidentiality, dignity and professionalism at all times.

To participate in the weekend and On call rotas as departmental policy

To maintain your professional standards of practice and codes of conduct and ensure any staff under your supervision maintain these as well.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!


This advert closes on Thursday 14 Aug 2025

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