Band 5 Physiotherapist recruitment event
Job overview
Northern Care Alliance Band 5 Physiotherapist Recruitment Event
Are you a soon-to-graduate or experienced Physiotherapist ready to launch or further your career in a dynamic supportive team committed to fostering your growth and professional development? Let’s explore how your experience can enhance our team!
Save the Date!
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to join us for an in-person recruitment day on:
Date: Wednesday, 30th April 2025
Time: 09:00 to 16:00
Venue: Mayo Building, Salford Royal Hospital, M6 8HD.
This is your opportunity to:
✅ Meet our friendly Physiotherapists from Salford & Oldham
✅ Learn about our services, career development, and benefits
✅ Take part in a 1:1 interview & an engaging task
✅ Network with like-minded professionals
✅ Secure a job offer or a place in our Talent Pool for future vacancies!
Don’t miss out—apply now to be part of the Northern Care Alliance family at Salford or Oldham! We may close applications early if we receive a high volume!
Main duties of the job
Participate in the rotational scheme working in a range of hospital and community settings across the health and social care community, working as an autonomous practitioner within your scope of practice and in accordance with your job plan.
Be responsible for your continuing professional development, actively participating in supervision, peer support and training and development programmes.
Manage a caseload including prioritisation and delegation of work to therapy assistants, performing patient assessments and making a clinical judgement of the patient’s needs. Develop, implement, evaluate and modify patient treatment programmes ensuring relevant pathways of care are followed in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team with onward referral to other agencies as appropriate.
Maintain accurate and comprehensive patient records complying with Trust policies and procedures, upholding statutory, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, and HCPC standards and codes of professional conduct.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Join a supportive and progressive organisation which includes Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Salford Care Organisations, where you will be welcomed, supported and valued. We’ll help you find your feet providing induction and supervision with a balance of autonomy and support that is tailored to your needs.You will enjoy a period of preceptorship, robust clinical and management supervision, regular appraisal, alongside team meetings, journal clubs, and in service training. There is access to CPD, coaching, leadership and management skills, research and student education - the opportunities are vast!
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Qualifications & Registration
Essential criteria- Member of HCPC or working towards registration
- BSc/Diploma/MSc Physiotherapy or final year student working towards qualification
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Experience, Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria- Broad range of experience at undergraduate or postgraduate level across a variety of clinical areas
- Good communication skills
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Evidence of CPD and how you use it in practice
- Understanding of professional standards and code of conduct
- Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.
- Demonstrates an awareness & understanding of supporting equality and valuing diversity within the role
- Shows evidence of clinical reasoning skills across a variety of clinical areas
- Shows evidence of discharge planning skills and understanding of the discharge pathway
- Demonstrates understanding of Governance and how it applies in practice
- Undergraduate experience gained in both a hospital and a community NHS setting
- Full UK driving license with willingness to use own car for work purposes.
Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria- Able to identify the Trust Values and Behaviours
- Evidence of how individual demonstrates each value
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruitment agencies and will not be liable for fees for candidates submitted speculatively. Click here for further information.
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met).As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [email protected]
For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will be only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.
In applying for this post, you give the Trust permission to use your data for recruitment purposes.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.
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