Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Senior Physiotherapist
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Job Description
To provide highly specialised physiotherapy assessment, treatment and discharge planning for older adults presenting with acute illness, frailty, falls, mobility problems and complex multi-morbidity within the Elderly Assessment Units (EAU).
The post holder will lead the physiotherapy service within the EAU, working autonomously and as part of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to facilitate timely assessment, optimise functional independence, support same-day emergency care pathways, reduce unnecessary admissions and promote safe discharge planning.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership, supervision and education to therapy staff and students, contribute to service development and support quality improvement initiatives across frailty services.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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
Marguerite Harvey
Email: marguerite.harvey@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
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