Specialist Senior Physiotherapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Band 7 Physiotherapist to lead our Community Physiotherapy Team here at North Tyneside General Hospital. Successful applicants will be enthusiastic, skilled, and ready to take on the responsibility and challenges of a senior and innovative position with our community team.

The post is a full time, fixed term or secondment position with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust based at North Tyneside General Hospital.

Successful applicants will provide leadership and day to day organisation of the community physiotherapy service in North Tyneside. The successful applicant will lead a team who provide physiotherapy to a patient who require assessment and rehabilitation in their own home.

The post holder will provide expert assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with a range of conditions, but will have extensive experience in care of the older person. Applicants must provide evidence of continuous professional development and post graduate training. Experience in supervision, education and training of more junior staff and students is essential. Experience of research and audit is advantageous.

We have strong links with wider care of the older persons team & the successful applicant must demonstrate excellent communication skills with Multidisciplinary Teams and peers. Links with the wider team will be maintained with the post holder integrating into the trust wide care of the older persons service.

The successful candidate will be supported by the care of the older persons physiotherapy manager and peers at North Tyneside Hospital. The post holder will be expected to work collaboratively with the senior leadership team in further service development.

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 deliver Physiotherapy treatment for a complex caseload within a specialist field.

To provide highly specialised physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment using advanced clinical reasoning skills.

To provide clinical education, supervision and support to staff and students within the speciality area.

To provide specialist advice to families, carers, other health and social care professionals and/or education services.

To contribute to planning, development and auditing of the Physiotherapy service within the specialist area.

To supervise qualified & unqualified staff within the specialist team.

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.