To provide a high-quality physiotherapy service to patients attending the Elderly Assessment Unit (EAU), delivering timely assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and discharge planning for older adults presenting with acute illness, frailty, falls and functional decline.
The post holder will work as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), undertaking specialist assessment and management of patients with complex physical, cognitive and social needs. The role will support patient flow through the frailty pathway by facilitating admission avoidance, same-day emergency care and safe discharge planning.
The post holder will supervise junior staff, assistants and students, participate in service development activities and contribute to quality improvement initiatives within the service.
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.
All interviews will be held face to face.
This will be a static post and role in elderly care outpatient setting.
- To assess, diagnose and treat an independent clinical caseload.
- To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the guidance and support of more experienced highly specialist senior physiotherapy staff. • 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.
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.
Candidates should have completed their
post graduate core rotations.
Competent to assess and treat an independent caseload
Awareness of relevant Department of
Health initiatives and National Service Frameworks relating to clinical guidelines
To consolidate post graduate skills and enhance more specialist skills and knowledge developing towards Specialist Senior Physiotherapist.
For further details please see attached job description and person specification.
