Have you had good experience across a range of specialties at Band 5 level and now want new challenges? Are you looking to widen your experience? Would you like to develop your leadership and teaching skills alongside growth of your clinical ability? If so, come and join the Therapies team at the University of North Midlands NHS Trust. We are looking for an enthusiastic therapist with strong clinical and team working skills. We are looking for candidates with a positive and resilient outlook and are able to embrace the challenges and opportunities of working in a large acute trust.
An exciting opportunity has presented itself for a Senior Physiotherapist. The successful candidate will rotate across the Royal Stoke and County Hospital sites and includes the following specialties:
* Cardiothoracics
* Paediatrics
* Orthopaedics (#NOF, Elective, ARTU, Trauma & Outpatients)
* Neurosurgery/Neurology
This experience will give the post holder an excellent opportunity to develop their leadership and management skills, as well as building clinical expertise that will enhance and broaden clinical skills.
Main duties of the job
You will be part of a large combined therapies team, which can offer a wide range of learning and development opportunities. Supervision will be provided by an Advanced Therapist and continuous development is supported through appraisal, internal training and external learning.
Training opportunities across University Hospital of North Midlands include access to an on-site simulation training lab. Close links with Staffordshire, Coventry, Derbyshire and Keele universities for support with external learning, apprenticeships at level 6 and 7 and research support as well as internal in-service and journal clubs.
Support and training as a clinical educator will be provided and the post holder will have the opportunity to supervise physiotherapy students.
The University Hospital of North Midlands is located on 2 hospital sites, Royal Stoke and County providing learning and development opportunities across a large therapies team. The Therapies team offers an excellent 7 day provision with staff working weekends and bank holidays and respiratory on call.
About us
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by our staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on working for the Trust, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
For more details on the post, please contact Clare Johnson (see contact details).
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
* Degree/diploma in Physiotherapy
* HCPC registered
* Evidence of CPD
Desirable
* CPD relevant to speciality area
Experience
Essential
* Minimum of 18 months post graduate experience as a Physiotherapist
Desirable
* Experience gained within an acute setting
* Experience relevant to specialty area
Skills, Ability & Knowledge
Essential
* Experience of supporting/supervising staff
* Good communicator - in writing
* Motivated to self-develop
Desirable
* Experience of audits
* Clinical Educator
* Involvement in training staff/delivering presentations
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust
Address
County Hospital
Weston Road
Stafford
ST16 3SA
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