An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, proactive and self-motivated physiotherapist, with excellent caseload management and communication skills to work within the Community Response Service Physiotherapy team predominantly based within the North Tyneside locality, with opportunities to work trustwide.
This role aims to enable patients with a wide variety of conditions to be as independent as possible within their own environment by providing specialist physiotherapy assessment and interventions. The team comprises of registered Physiotherapists and Technical Instructors.
If you would like to discuss the post further, we welcome visits from interested candidates.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received
The successful candidate will need to be flexible in their approach to the role. We follow an integrated therapeutic approach to client intervention and are looking to recruit people with a broad experience within MSK, falls, neurological conditions and general elderly frail conditions/ multiple co morbidities.
The main duties of this role include -
To ensure service provision is prioritised and service delivery is made effectively within resource constraints.
To deliver a comprehensive service for a complex case load.
To manage a defined caseload of patients, using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
To assess for and monitor the provision of adaptations when appropriate.
To provide clinical education, supervision and support to staff and students within the specialist field and Community Response Services.
To provide specialist advice to families, carers, and other health and social care professionals.
To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of Physiotherapy services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects through specialist interest and steering groups.
To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Community Response Service across Northumbria Healthcare Trust. To practice within the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist Physiotherapy assessments, diagnosis and treatment using clinical reasoning skills.
As a trust, 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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.
We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides a number of staff benefits including personal car lease scheme, discounted gym membership & attractive pension scheme.
To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide efficient and effective facilitation of the patient journey through hospital and in community, to achieve safe and timely discharge, seamless transitions and help avoid unnecessary admission and re admission to hospital
To carry out triage and responder duties, as part of a team rota
To carry out appraisals with junior and support staff, as delegated by Team Lead
Managerially responsible to Team Lead
Clinically responsible to Physio Clinical Lead
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 teams/departments and across organisational boundaries
