Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Northern General Hospital
Town Sheffield
Salary £46,148 - £52,809 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period Yearly
Closing 12/01/2025 23:59
Interview date 20/01/2025
Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems.
Job overview
Are you an experienced Physiotherapist looking for your next career step? Do you have clinical leadership skills and experience in medicine or surgical specialties? Want to enhance your experience across different patients, care settings and develop as a clinical leader in one of the UK’s largest hospital Trusts?
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist to work within our Specialised Medicine Therapy team based across the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and Weston Park Hospital.
As a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist you will be working alongside a team of other Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and support staff, to deliver acute and ongoing care, including early assessment and prevention of deconditioning, urgent respiratory care and supporting plans for timely discharge.
Covering a variety of different wards across the hospitals, this is a chance to work with a wide range of patients across different specialties, including Oncology, Haematology, Surgery and Infectious Diseases. While there will be an opportunity to work across all these specialties, there would be an expectation bias of this role toward Infectious Diseases, Surgery (Urology, Breast and Gynecological) and Pulmonary Hypertension.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
1. Providing high quality physiotherapy care to medicine patients throughout their hospital stay utilising quality improvement and evidence-based healthcare.
2. Ensuring the urgent acute physiotherapy needs are met by physiotherapists in the team.
3. Working closely with the whole team to support patient flow.
4. Working collaboratively with the Directorates, Clinical Service Manager, Lead Therapist and other Clinical Specialists to achieve the organisation’s objectives.
5. Clinical Leadership of the Physiotherapists in leading on individual specialties and support innovative ideas.
6. Clinical leadership in the development of skills across professions and to therapy assistants and technical instructors.
7. Leading on the clinical aspects of developing staff working on integrated Medicine wards.
8. Sharing developments within and outside the Trust.
9. Supervision and mentorship of Therapy staff.
10. A variety of teaching/training commitments within the Division and Acute Therapy Services.
11. Organisation of service delivery and selected line management responsibilities.
12. Participation in a range of clinical governance/assurance/management forums.
13. Networking and benchmarking outside the trust.
Working for our organisation
Therapy Services provides a number of services over 7 days (including Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays). Successful candidates will be expected to contribute to these rosters as part of their contracted hours.
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff, including a firm commitment to professional development together with the provision of an excellent health and well-being support service.
The role offers the opportunity for either a AfC Band 6 physiotherapist, or an existing AfC Band 7, to grow their personal and professional development with both breadth and depth across a framework of clinical practice, education, leadership, and quality improvement & research.
Please note this vacancy is advertised as a permanent contract but a secondment may be considered.
Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
* BSc in Physiotherapy
* Current HPC Registration
* Postgraduate Masters level module in relevant subject to this post or equivalent relevant knowledge and skills accumulated through formal training and experiential learning.
Experience
* Extensive experience as a qualified therapist.
* Significant experience at Specialist level in relevant specialty.
* Clinical Educator.
* Participation in Clinical Audit & Practice Development.
* Supervision and line management of Therapy staff including appraisal.
* Professional Presentations.
* Experience in emergency respiratory on call including weekend work (PT only).
* Demonstrates a clear understanding of the role of acute therapy within the NHS.
* Demonstrates ability to deliver high level decision making regarding rehabilitation and discharges.
* Acute Inpatient experience in the NHS.
* Member of Special Interest Group.
* Governance.
* Teaching.
Further Training
* Documented evidence of continuous personal & professional development, relevant to the current post.
* Advanced clinical knowledge and skill in specialty.
* Knowledge of evidence-base for specialty.
* Good basic knowledge of therapy practice for medicine, orthopaedics, neurology.
* Clinical Governance.
* Research, Clinical Audit or Practice.
* Leadership.
* Teaching.
* Excellent team working skills and the ability to work collaboratively with specific reference to current NHS landscape.
* Able to demonstrate strong, confident leadership within the acute trust and across the wider NHS.
* Excellent interpersonal, communication, team working and leadership skills.
* Excellent organisational skills, ability to act on own initiative, to prioritise work and manage multiple tasks for self and others.
* Ability to analyse complex problems, formulate solutions and implement sustainable change.
* Able to maintain confidentiality.
* IT literate.
* Demonstrates a proactive approach to supporting staff health and wellbeing.
Other Factors
* Flexible and reliable approach to working practices.
* Mature and positive attitude to change management.
* Proactive approach to service delivery.
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The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation.
Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition, for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered; please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.
All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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