A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity for a band 6 physiotherapist to work at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The post is a part-time Band 6 rotational post within the speciality of Orthopaedics.
The successful applicant will join our friendly teams and work between North Tyneside General Hospital, Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care hospital at Cramlington, Wansbeck General Hospital and Hexham General Hospital within the in-patient orthopaedic team. Rotations will include elective orthopaedics at all sites across the trust, acute trauma, trauma rehabilitation and work into the Bone Infection Unit.
The successful candidate will be required to participate in the seven-day working and Bank Holiday rota for inpatient services.
The successful candidate may be required to contribute to the respiratory service at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care hospital. This includes an evening shadow on call rota and occasional nightshift commitment.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
The successful applicant must demonstrate excellent communication skills with both the multidisciplinary team and peers. There must be evidence of continued professional development demonstrating experience to support applications.
Applicants will be expected to participate in our 7-day working rota. It is noted that in the future some posts may not be traditional Monday to Friday as we embrace full 7 day working.
Applicants should note that they will be expected to work a shift pattern which will include shifts until 8pm.
It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
The successful candidate must also contribute to student education, support the day-to-day leadership and organisation of the team and provide a high standard of physiotherapy care in each rotation within orthopaedics including elective and trauma.
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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
1. To assess, diagnose and treat an independent clinical caseload within the orthopaedics.
2. To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the guidance and support of more experienced highly specialist senior physiotherapy staff.
3. To provide a high standard of physiotherapy care through one of the following:
1. a full range of specialist areas including musculo-skeletal, orthopaedics, elderly care, general medicine, respiratory, neurology, paediatrics, women’s health, front of house, surgery and ITU. The rotational element of the role develops individual’s specialist skills across a range of therapeutic modalities.
2. a static post within one of the above sub-specialist teams. This role will incorporate inpatient, outpatient and community activity in both primary and secondary care settings and support the development of specialist skills and knowledge.
4. 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 improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Tuesday 8 Apr 2025.
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