Senior Physiotherapist

Excellent opportunity for anyone who is interested and committed to rehabilitation in the community. The locality is Redcar Community Therapy Team but you may be asked to support the Middlesbrough Community Therapy team too within the role., This position is for a permanent Band 6 physiotherapist, 37.5 hours a week, to join the established integrated community Therapy team within South Tees. This post will help support some the initiatives being implemented in the community such as the Teeswide Falls strategy, integrated single point of access MDT and Primary care networks. South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust Community Collaborative and Primary Care Network are working together to improve community rehabilitation services ensuring that the local population across Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland receive therapy close to home. As a result there has been changes to service provision recently meaning that the services can be delivered by the right therapist in the right place at the right time. Working in the community you will provide rehabilitation in the patients own home and group settings, working closely with statutory and voluntary services to promote and maintain independence. You will also work closely with the Urgent Community response team to help step and step down patients to help prevent deconditioning and unnecessary admissions to hospital.

The post holder will be expected to have experience in rehabilitation as well as having gained experience across a variety of specialities to help manage patients with various conditions. As services are delivered across Redcar and Cleveland Locality there is a expectation that you will have an ability to work flexibility and travel independently within the community., Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.

South Tees Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in the country, close to the North York Moors and within easy reach of Newcastle and Leeds. It comprises two acute hospitals, James Cook University Hospital and Friarage Hospital Northallerton and a number of community hospitals and community services. Therapy services at South Tees NHS trust are also part of the wider Integrated Therapy service in Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland. This is a unique partnership between Health and Social Care in South Tees with a commitment to working together, improving the quality of our service and getting rid of existing barriers between health and social services., South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:

• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
• Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills.
• Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role.
After you complete this four and half days training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3, 5 and 7.