Specialist Senior Physiotherapist
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.
Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Band 7 Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapist to work in JMAPS (Joint Musculoskeletal And Pain Service) our First Contact Musculoskeletal team. Ideal for enthusiastic, skilled, staff who have evidence of significant experience in musculoskeletal physiotherapy including post-operative care.Completion of the First Contact Practitioner (Musculoskeletal) Roadmap would be desirable.
The post may require assessment centre or psychometric testing.
Please note: The vacancy may be closed before the closing date if there are a high number of applicants. All interviews will be face to face.
Main duties of the job
Successful applicants will provide musculoskeletal physiotherapy (including post-operative physiotherapy) in JMAPS and may also provide cover in First Contact Practitioner clinics within Northumberland. The post holder will provide expert assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with musculoskeletal conditions who have self-referred or who have been referred by primary or secondary care.The post holder will be expected to provide telephone consultations.
JMAPS provides physiotherapy across Northumberland including Berwick Infirmary, Alnwick Infirmary, Wansbeck General Hospital ,Blyth Hospital, Hexham hospital and some GP practices and Health Centres in between. The post will be based at Wansbeck General Hospital but there may be a requirement to work at other sites, according to service needs.
We have strong links with the Northumbria Orthopaedic team & the successful applicant must demonstrate excellent communication skills with MDT and peers. Applicants should have experience in supervision, education and training of more junior staff and be involved in student education, research and audit.The post holder will be expected to provide clinical supervision to colleagues..
Applicants must provide evidence of continuous professional development and post graduate training. The post holder will be expected to work collaboratively with the senior leadership team in further service development
Working for our organisation
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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country.Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients?
You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- To deliver Physiotherapy treatment for a complex caseload within a specialist field.
- To provide highly specialised physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment using advanced clinical reasoning skills.
- To provide clinical education, supervision and support to staff and students within the speciality area.
- To provide specialist advice to families, carers, other health and social care professionals and/or education services
- To contribute to planning, development and auditing of the Physiotherapy service within the specialist area.
- To supervise qualified & unqualified staff within the specialist team.
- 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
- (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent
- Member of the Health Professionals Council
- Student training qualification
- • Recognised qualification and experience in the supervision of undergraduate students.
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Working towards Masters level or equivalent accredited courses within chosen speciality e.g. Action Research, McKenzie accredited practitioner, Injection Diploma, Continence Diploma, Accredited Respiratory Care Management.
- Completed FCP Roadmap (Musculoskeletal) to Practice
Experience
Essential criteria- • Evidence of significant post -graduate education, knowledge and clinical skills in the specialist field.
- • To be a member of relevant local or Trust wide specialist interest group or journal club
- • Substantial post graduate experience previous experience
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application.Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.