We have an exciting opportunity for a part time Specialist Physiotherapist to join the Adult Weight Management Service within Northumbria Healthcare Trust on a fixed term basis for 12 months. We are seeking an individual who is passionate about empowering people to achieve their activity goals and positively make changes to their lifestyle.

The service is a Tier 3 Specialist Weight Management Service including input from dietetics, psychology and exercise facilitators. The team delivers a MDT approach to patients who meet criteria for Tier 3 services. We are a service committed to compassionate client focussed care.

As part of the team, you will be able to contribute to service development, staff training and development, evaluation and audit. You will be supported to develop your skills and knowledge in this exciting specialism that is at the heart of key priorities for public health and the NHS., To manage a caseload of patients, determining their requirements to increase daily activity to benefit their health; utilising patient specific goals.

Manage a complex caseload who will often have multiple needs including medical, psychological and social.

Assess a client's physical health in line with service protocols.

Undertake practice sensitive to the needs of clients, carers and relatives from a variety of backgrounds.

Deliver effective group education and exercise sessions to clients.

Deliver bespoke one to one sessions with clients as required for complex patients who cannot access group sessions.

Support and supervise the exercise facilitators within the service.

Contribute to the service development supported by the leads within the service, using current best practice, patient feedback and innovation.

It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.

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'