Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Physiotherapist
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Job Description: Physiotherapist in Elderly Assessment Unit
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.
Responsibilities
- Work as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), undertaking specialist assessment and management of patients with complex physical, cognitive, and social needs.
- Support patient flow through the frailty pathway by facilitating admission avoidance, same-day emergency care, and safe discharge planning.
- Supervise junior staff, assistants, and students.
- Participate in service development activities and contribute to quality improvement initiatives within the service.
Role Requirements
- 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:
- Engages, enables, and empowers others.
- Uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement.
- Facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organizational boundaries.
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About Us
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 organizations in England? Work in an organization 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.
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Application Details
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.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits, contact:
- Name: Katy McKinney
- Job title: Principal Physiotherapist
- Email address: katy.mckinney@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07702 617286
Or contact Marguerite Harvey
- Email address: marguerite.harvey@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
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