Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist –Neonates
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Northampton General Hospital
Northampton General Hospital is a busy district general hospital with a level 2 Local Neonatal Unit, Gosset ward (LNU) that typically admits around 450 babies per year. Our neonatal service provides intensive, high-dependency and special care for 20 babies (from 27 weeks gestation) as part of the East Midlands Neonatal Operational Delivery Network (EMNON).
Exciting Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly specialist Band 7 Physiotherapist to join our expanding Neonatal Allied Health Professional Team. This newly created permanent role offers the chance to play a key part in shaping and developing an innovative service that supports babies and their families during some of the most critical stages of early development.
Responsibilities
Working within our neonatal team, you will help deliver specialist assessment, intervention and support for infants and families, while contributing to service development, quality improvement and multidisciplinary working across the neonatal pathway.
- Collaboration: Work alongside other AHP's at Northampton General Hospital.
- Support: Supported by a friendly, knowledgeable and highly collaborative neonatal multidisciplinary team.
- Professional Development: Strong links with an established regional neonatal network, providing excellent opportunities for professional development, networking and shared learning.
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- High level of understanding of the effect of prematurity, congenital conditions and difficulties at birth on both the individual and family unit.
- Use highly specialist knowledge, practical skills, assessment tools and communication skills to assess and determine diagnosis of conditions with which high risk infants may present.
- Provide high quality physiotherapy using highly advanced specialist clinical knowledge and skills to carry out effective, safe, and evidence-based treatment.
- Assess family understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid information consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- Maintain competency to practice through Continuous Professional Development.
- Participate in audit and the measurement of outcomes, according to Clinical Governance Requirements.
- Acts with autonomy in providing highly specialised neonatal physiotherapy care in the management of a varied caseload including those with complex neurological and neurodevelopmental needs.
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About University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN)
University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.
Our Excellence Values
- Compassion
- Accountability
- Respect
- Integrity
- Courage
UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Michelle Hardwick
- Job Title: Modern Matron
- Email Address: michelle.hardwick@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 07500608349
Kelly Oyesiku
- Position: Ward Manager, Gosset ward LNU
- Location: Northampton
- Email: Kelly.oyesiku@nhs.net
- Tel: 01604 545520/01604 544851
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