Senior Physiotherapist - Acute & Older Persons Medicine- AMU

Job overview

52 week fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity

The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital is a leading teaching hospital with world-class facilities. Physiotherapy is playing an instrumental role in the exciting developments in the Trust and our team is growing.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the front door service of our Acute and Older Persons Medicine Team. We are looking for an experienced Physiotherapist with a specialist interest in Acute Medicine/Admission Avoidance to work alongside our established AMU team.

As a team we are committed to providing Physiotherapy intervention in parallel with medical treatment at the start of the patients care facilitating early mobility and discharge planning and preventing unnecessary admissions. The wider multidisciplinary team value our role in assessing and supporting patients respiratory and physical function, informing acute care planning, alongside our therapeutic skills supporting early mobility and function to manage and prevent deconditioning supporting early return home.

Our clinical caseload is varied and embedded in a culture of education, development, and service improvement. Excellent communication skills and a willingness to develop yourself and others around you are essential. In turn this exciting role offers you the opportunity to develop both your clinical and non-clinical skills with access to in-service training and personal development.

Main duties of the job

As post holder you will work within a team of Physiotherapists across our 3 admission units to undertaking a variety of clinical and non-clinical tasks to support the delivery of physiotherapy services to patients with a home first ethos, promoting early mobilisation and function. You will support junior and student staff, delegate to junior and assistant staff and have a role in teaching opportunities, including our band 5 induction programme. The role will also require supporting deteriorating patients within the ED footprint.

As the successful candidate, you will need:

• a broad skill base including acute respiratory skills and acute medical knowledge
• effective decision making skills, balancing risk to support early discharge
• be required to utilize effective communication skills with patients, their family and MDT colleagues
• a drive to provide quality care to our patients is essential
• Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post. Weekend working will be required at a frequency of 1:5 within the role.

Full and part time hours available. Working a compressed hours pattern of 8-6, 4 days per week.

This is a fixed term role which concludes on 18/12/2027.

If you are considering applying for this post on a secondment basis, please discuss with your Line Manager prior to applying to ascertain whether this could be supported.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Senior Physiotherapist responsible for the physiotherapy management of a defined caseload of patients within the specialty presenting to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. See appendix for post details.
• To assess, prioritise and manage own caseload of patients, determine clinical diagnosis and treatment indicated, and maintain records as a legally autonomous practitioner. Patient presentation may be complex/highly complex.
• Work will be undertaken without direct supervision. Clinical/professional supervision may take the form of formal training, clinical reasoning sessions and occasional direct observation of practice. Advice and support is always available.
• To provide clinical leadership within the speciality including educational, professional and managerial guidance.
• To have an active role in the planning, development, coordination, delivery and evaluation of the physiotherapy service provided to patients within and out-reaching from the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
• To deputise for the Team Leader/Senior physiotherapy staff as required.
• To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUH’s ‘PRIDE’ values of People focused, Respect, Dedication, Integrity and Excellence.

Please view the attached job description for full details of the role, and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.