Main area Specialist Physiotherapist Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (4 days into Newcastle Older Person's CTT and 1 day into Gibside RADS) Job ref 263-CCG25-092-MG
Employer Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Nicholas Hospital Town Newcastle Upon Tyne Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 20/03/2025 23:59
Specialist Physiotherapist
Band 6
Newcastle Older Person’s Community Mental Health Services are looking to recruit a Band 6 Chartered and HCPC Registered Physiotherapist. We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic individual with experience of working within a community setting, with mental health experience, or a similar type of clinical setting with transferable skills.
This is an exciting opportunity working across Newcastle’s Older Person’s Community Treatment Team providing specialist assessment and interventions to service users with dementia and complex, enduring mental health conditions. This post will include working one day per week into the Regional Affective Disorder ward Gibside (RADS) based at St Nicholas Hospital Newcastle. Here they provide inpatient care for patients with difficult to treat mood disorders. The role of the physiotherapist on the ward varies between patients and can include completing assessment and interventions, creating and adapting gym and exercise programs, delegating tasks to physiotherapy assistants, and running exercise groups. There will be opportunities to work with physiotherapists across the trust through regular peer supervision and in-service training.
Main duties of the job
1. To be responsible for the specialist assessment and management and physiotherapy service provision for service users who have a variety of complex physiotherapy needs, diverse presentations and a range of mental health, learning disabilities and/or neurological conditions.
2. To manage and provide on-going specialist physiotherapy assessment and treatment using evidence-based practice.
3. The post holder will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring that high quality, individualised care is delivered and that this maximises independence and promotes recovery and wellbeing.
4. To facilitate the delivery of Physiotherapy Student Education within the clinical setting.
5. To provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity.
6. To apply sound core clinical skills to ensure effective service delivery of a wide range of conditions from all areas of physiotherapy.
7. To use excellent communication skills to enhance and develop working relationships within the MDT.
8. To provide clinical supervision and leadership to staff.
Person specification
Education and Qualification
* Recognised Physiotherapy degree qualification or equivalent
* Further relevant post-qualifying training.
* State registration with HCPC.
* Registered member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
Knowledge and Experience
* Proven clinical experience of working with service users, family and carers in delivery of physiotherapy treatment plans
* Multi-disciplinary team work
* Knowledge and experience of a wide range of conditions and physiotherapy approaches.
* Awareness and understanding of professional accountability, HCPC and CSP standards and other local and national initiatives
* Experience of providing Physiotherapy services.
* Awareness of equal opportunities legislation and policies
* Experience of collaborative working across agencies and professional disciplines.
* Proven ability to manage a clinical caseload in a flexible manner as required.
* Experience of supervising students/non-registered staff
* Clinical experience relevant to this role
* Knowledge of involving service users/carers in evaluation/planning and monitoring of services
Skills and Competencies
* Awareness of and adherence to the CSP Standards.
* Skills in a range of appropriate standardised and informal assessments.
* Highly developed communication skills.
* Proven ability to communicate effectively within multi-agency teams.
* Provide appropriate therapeutic interventions.
* Ability to use IT systems.
* Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Personal Characteristics
* Flexible, Confident, Reliable.
* Ability to cope with distressing and emotional situations.
* Enthusiastic and motivated.
Additional Requirements
* Must be able to meet the mobility requirements of the post.
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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