Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for applicants interested in developing their career in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy here at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The role would ideally suit an applicant currently working at Band 5 level with previous NHS rotational and musculoskeletal experience. The role is in musculoskeletal outpatients as part of our JMAPS (Joint Musculoskeletal and Pain Service) team in Northumberland. Clients will be referred by primary care, self-referral or from consultants. There will be some post-operative patients. Staff may be required at different clinical sites across the Trust.
CPD is actively encouraged within our teams and training is supervised by Senior Physiotherapy clinicians supporting staff to achieve their individual learning outcomes supported by a robust appraisal system.
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.
Main duties of the job
* To assess and treat an independent physiotherapy caseload.
* To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the supervision of senior physiotherapy staff.
* To assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for an individual clinical caseload.
* To liaise with senior staff on a regular basis to ensure appropriate management of patients.
* With guidance from senior physiotherapists, maintain a high level of evidence-based practice through continual review of current research, thus enhancing standards of patient care.
* 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 team / departments and across organisational boundaries.
About us
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!
Job responsibilities
* To provide safe and effective musculoskeletal physiotherapy for patients, using evidence-based care.
* To identify patients capacity to consent to treatment and apply the departments consent protocol.
* To contribute to the supervision of technical instructors, physiotherapy assistants and students.
* To maintain a high standard of clinical record keeping in accordance with CSP guidelines and trust wide physiotherapy standards for documentation.
* To attend departmental meetings as appropriate.
* To attend relevant in-service training to consolidate undergraduate knowledge and increase skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
* BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent
* Registered Physiotherapist with the Health Professionals Council
* Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Experience and knowledge
* Pre-registration experience in core areas e.g. orthopaedics, neurology, respiratory
* Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
* Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Other requirements
* 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.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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