Senior Physiotherapist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, proactive and self-motivated physiotherapist, with excellent caseload management and communication skills to work within the Community Response Service Physiotherapy team predominantly based within the North Tyneside locality, with opportunities to work trustwide.

This role aims to enable patients with a wide variety of conditions to be as independent as possible within their own environment by providing specialist physiotherapy assessment and interventions. The team comprises of registered Physiotherapists and Technical Instructors.

If you would like to discuss the post further, we welcome visits from interested candidates.

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

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will need to be flexible in their approach to the role. We follow an integrated therapeutic approach to client intervention and are looking to recruit people with a broad experience within MSK, falls, neurological conditions and general elderly frail conditions/ multiple co morbidities.

The main duties of this role include -

• To ensure service provision is prioritised and service delivery is made effectively within resource constraints.
• To deliver a comprehensive service for a complex case load.
• To manage a defined caseload of patients, using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
• To assess for and monitor the provision of adaptations when appropriate.
• To provide clinical education, supervision and support to staff and students within the specialist field and Community Response Services.
• To provide specialist advice to families, carers, and other health and social care professionals.
• To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of Physiotherapy services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects through specialist interest and steering groups.
• To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Community Response Service across Northumbria Healthcare Trust. To practice within the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist Physiotherapy assessments, diagnosis and treatment using clinical reasoning skills.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide efficient and effective facilitation of the patient journey through hospital and in community, to achieve safe and timely discharge, seamless transitions and help avoid unnecessary admission and re admission to hospital
• To carry out triage and responder duties, as part of a team rota
• To carry out appraisals with junior and support staff, as delegated by Team Lead
• Managerially responsible to Team Lead
• Clinically responsible to Physio Clinical Lead
• 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