Employer: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/11/2024 23:59
Specialist Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated. 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.
Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Are you a qualified NHS Physiotherapist looking for your next career step? 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 Specialist Physiotherapist to work within our Specialised Medicine Therapy team based across the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and Weston Park Hospital.
As a 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 great chance to work with a wide range of patients and develop your experience of different specialties, including Oncology, Haematology, Urology, and Infectious Diseases.
Main duties of the job
Throughout your time, you’ll have the guidance and supervision of our clinical specialists and wider team to offer you support, help you manage your caseload and complex patients, and help develop your specific area of interest and skills to further your career.
We also offer excellent in-service training programs to support staff to continue with postgraduate training and developing clinical and leadership skills, including developing and delivering education, supervision, mentorship, and service developments. There’s also the chance to get involved in service improvement and research projects, new innovations, and more.
We’re looking for someone who enjoys working in a multidisciplinary team to deliver the best possible care for patients, has excellent communication skills, and ideally has post-registration experience within an acute setting.
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.
Working for our organisation
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for the maximum period of 18 months. Where there is potential, the secondment/fixed term contract may finish early, or in the first instance, the secondment/fixed term contract may be extended due to the internal/external secondment of the substantive post holder. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts and secondments in relation to the substantive post holder.
Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.
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 of its staff together with the provision of an excellent health and well-being support service.
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 or equivalent
* Current HCPC registration
Experience
* Post-registration NHS experience as a Physiotherapist.
* Post-registration knowledge and skill to manage a complex specialist caseload in the relevant clinical specialty applied for.
* Experience in emergency respiratory on call
* Clinical Governance or Health & Safety, link worker
* Member of special Interest Group
* Clinical Effectiveness course/Project
Further Training
* Evidence of continuous personal & professional development
* Good post-registration theoretical and practical knowledge of therapy practice in chosen field
* Evidence-Based Practice
* Clinical Governance
* Competency in Physiotherapy clinical reasoning, processes & practices
* Excellent interpersonal, communication and team working skills
* Able to maintain confidentiality
* Able to act on own initiative, organise and prioritise work and manage multiple tasks
* Able to maintain accurate written records & statistics
* Calm approach to changing work situations
* Able to teach and motivate others
* Understanding of therapy in an acute hospital
* IT literate
* Understanding of stress and ability to help others cope under pressure
Other Factors
* Flexible and reliable approach to working practices
* Positive, proactive attitude to patient care and teamwork
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If you are offered employment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals your information will be transferred from the Trac recruitment system into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.
Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email sent via the Trac recruitment system; please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.
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.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Louise Page
Job title: Lead Therapist
Email address: louise.page17@nhs.net
Telephone number: 0114 21712054
Additional information:
Alex Clay, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist on 0114 2712054 alexandra.clay1@nhs.net
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