Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Senior Rotational Physiotherapist
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Senior Rotational Physiotherapist
Please contact the inpatient therapy team leads on 01924541468 if you require any further information. Alternatively email Eva Hirst (eva.hirst1@nhs.net) or Shelly Theaker (shelly.theaker1@nhs.net), the inpatient service leads.
About The Role
Are you a Band 6 who wants to work in more specialised areas? Or an experienced Band 5 Physiotherapist looking to take the next step in your career? Please note this is an advert for a fixed term post to cover maternity leave.
We offer highly specialist 9-month rotations across three sites (Wakefield, Dewsbury & Pontefract) where you can enjoy many different clinical settings and develop a variety of skills.
- Spinal Injuries at Yorkshire’s Regional centre
- Burns Centre adult & children including critical care
- Respiratory 20 bedded Critical Care Unit, surgical HDU, acute respiratory and surgical wards
- A&E, Acute Medical Assessment and Frailty Units to stop admission into hospital
- Stroke Hyper acute stroke unit and rehab
- Neurology Rehab varying conditions with longer term rehabilitation
- Medical including cardiology, gastroenterology and geriatrics
- Trauma & Orthopaedics including major trauma, fractured neck of femur and day case
If you are highly motivated, enjoy a challenge and are hard working then this job at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust is the job for you. We are a supportive and forward thinking inpatient therapy service, just waiting for you to join us!
The post holder will provide peer support, supervision to other members of the team, be responsible for the technical instructors and leadership opportunities where appropriate in the clinical setting, overseeing, planning and implementing team objectives with senior support. There will also be opportunity for project work in service development.
In return we offer in-service training, support for CPD both in house and external courses/conferences and a yearly appraisal which focuses on you & your development. We give support in leadership opportunities and encourage you to fulfil your potential. As part of the role, you will be required to take part in the respiratory On Call rota where full & thorough training is given. We require weekend work as part of the seven day service but offer flexibility in being able to pick weekends, and days off through our e-rostering system.
Please look at our trust website for further information on Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust.
Main duties
- To provide advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological symptoms associated with in-patient conditions in a broad variety of clinical settings, including Stroke, Neurology, Medical/Elderly, Spinal Injuries, Acute medical Assessment, Critical Care, Respiratory & Burns. The senior clinician will provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individual treatment programme for this patient.
- To provide leadership and support to junior colleagues in the assessment and management of Inpatient clinical conditions.
- To provide peer support, supervision and second opinions to members of the relevant Inpatient teams.
- Participate in seven day service for the wards (select rotations) helping to facilitate discharges and achieve best practice tariffs. Participate in the respiratory (on call) rota.
- To be responsible for technical instructors on duty.
- To provide clinical education of physiotherapy students on placement.
- To undertake a management role where appropriate in the clinical setting, where overseeing, planning and implementing objectives for juniors and assistants as necessary.
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Qualifications
Essential person specification requirements
- Graduate Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy
- Registered with the HPC
- Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, including attendance at recent and relevant postgraduate courses.
- Portfolio evidence of information learning.
Experience
- Comprehensive experience at Band 5 level in a rotational post within the NHS, providing a broad range of experience in core and specialist rotations.
- Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy team and/or multidisciplinary team.
- Recent evidence of On-call and respiratory experience
- Involvement in audit, research and an understanding quality issues.
- Contributing to clinical education of students and training other staff
- Be the main clinical educator of students and training other staff whilst with the team
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate.
- Supervision of other staff, e.g. assistants, technical instructors.
- Remain updated with professional practice and new research.
- Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession.
- Ability to present information, written and orally in a clear and logical manner.
- Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit.
- Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust’s policies including data protection, equal opportunities, health and safety, risk management and meet the differing needs of the patients.
- Ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes.
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Be part of MY team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
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Our Benefits
- Access to the NHS pension plan
- Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
- Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
- Extensive benefits and support, including:
- Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Home electronics scheme
- Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
- Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
- Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
- Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
- Career progression, training and support
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