University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Band 6 Physiotherapist
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Job Summary
Are you a band 5 looking for progression or a band 6 looking for a change in your career, then look no further.
Here is your opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic and ever evolving therapy team, at Heartlands hospital as part of UHB.
You will be working as part of the therapy team and the wider Multidisciplinary team supporting patients to return home as soon as possible.
We need an excellent team worker with knowledge across a range of Physiotherapy treatments. In return we offer you the opportunity to develop your clinical and interdisciplinary team working skills, supporting your career development with an individualised personal development plan, closely supported by your team lead. You will receive supervision regularly as part of our new more supportive structure in addition to annual appraisals, to support your immediate and longer term goals.
You will be joining a team in a fast paced hospital with the vision of building healthier lives for the local community, there is therefore lots of opportunity to support with the development of the service to ensure that the ever changing needs of the community are met.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
To provide individualised therapeutic assessments, management and treatment of patients in a variety of wards within the hospital setting. Focussing interventions to a wide variety of clinical cases across the acute hospital wards, applying Physiotherapy knowledge and the therapeutic process. There will be a strong focus on facilitating the discharges home, or to other care pathways and ensure that their person specific ongoing rehab needs are met by the most appropriate services.
- Excellent communication, prioritisation and organisational skills
- Experience in working in a multidisciplinary team
- Undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and maintain associated records
- Assisting with supervision, education and co-ordination of more junior qualified staff, generic support workers and students
- Engage in the service development process
- Support with the collection of data, and supporting the implementation of changes within the immediate team
- Deputise for your team lead
You will be expected to work as part of a 7 day service and will be contributing to the emergency out of hours respiratory service and so previous experience of this is essential.
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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job Description
Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma / degree in Physiotherapy
- Registered with Healthcare Professions Council (HCPC)
- A levels or equivalent qualification
- Good standard of general education including GCSE Maths and English grade C and above
- Evidence of CPD including recent post graduate training relevant to clinical speciality
Desirable
- Member of specialist interest group
- Attendance at Clinical Educators course
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients within this speciality / within the NHS with experience of elderly and frail elderly, respiratory, neurological and musculoskeletal conditions
- Experience of working on a physiotherapy on-call service
- Experience of working with student physiotherapists and assistants
- An ability to analyse clinical and non-clinical complex facts and situations, which require the interpretation and comparison of a range of options
- An ability to plan, organise, formulate and adjust complex plans
- An ability to supervise and delegate work to physiotherapists, assistants and students
Desirable
- Experience within speciality area
Additional Criteria
Essential
- An ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information
- An ability to empathise and reassure
- An ability to persuade, motivate and negotiate
- An ability to communicate where there are barriers to understanding
- An ability to contribute to the clinical education of less experienced staff, students or assistants
- Demonstrate enthusiasm, vision and a desire to achieve
- Committed to developing expertise within physiotherapy and clinical speciality
- Demonstrate a forward-thinking and professional attitude
- An ability to cope with moving/manoeuvring patients/equipment on a daily basis
- An ability to cope with frequent exposure to distressing /emotional situations
- An ability to work as team leader, as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- An ability to motivate and develop the team
- Able to contribute to the 7 day weekend service, extended out of hours and overnight on-call Respiratory Physiotherapy service
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Desirable
- Demonstrate an interest in promoting physiotherapy to health professionals and other agencies
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Karen Cunningham
01214241490
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£39959.00 to £48117.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9019230
Job locations
Heartlands Hospital
Bordesley Green E
Birmingham
West Midlands
B9 5SS
Attachments
Job Description
[Band 6 JD PS.pdf – 434KB](opens in a new window)
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