Physiotherapist | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT 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 is offered under an Annex 20 where the successful candidate will commence at Band 5 level but will be supported to progress to Band 6 on completion of competency based assessments. The role would ideally suit an applicant currently working at Band 5 level with previous NHS 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 GP, self referral or via our orthopaedic consultant team. 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. This post is based at Hexham General Hospital but staff may be required to work across the Trust.

• 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. 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! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
• To identify patients' capacity to consent to treatment and apply the departments consent protocol.
• To actively participate in the planning and organisation of the discharge process.
• To contribute to the supervision of technical instructors and physiotherapy assistants.
• 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 post graduate lectures and in-service training to consolidate undergraduate knowledge and increase skills appropriate to each rotation.
  
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