Job summary
- Main area
- physiotherapy/advanced practice
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Weekdays: Monday - Friday)
- Job ref
- 190-7769-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Firth Park Clinic
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/07/2024
Employer heading
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Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
A unique and exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner to be part of the Integrated Care- Therapy leadership team in Sheffield.
This role will work alongside an established operational team and will report to the Assistant Head of Integrated Community Care, Lead for Community Occupational and / Physiotherapy. The service has recently established clinical specialist posts at band 7 level; the successful post holder will be instrumental in embedding this role, coaching and developing both our Clinical Specialists and the wider staff group, and providing expert clinical practise with advanced clinical reasoning.
Sheffield Community Integrated Therapy is “proud” to deliver high-quality therapeutic community rehabilitation. The successful candidate will be someone who has excellent compassionate leadership skills, is person-centred and can develop relationships with all stakeholders to deliver "what matters" to the patient.
The successful candidate will be able to lead the care of complex frail older adults and those with specialist respiratory needs, and ensure developing services consider the advanced practise therapy needs of such complex patients.
Continuous service improvement will be an integral part of the role, leading evaluation and audit within the specialism, and ensuring compliance with national and local guidelines and frameworks are met.
The post is advertised at 30 hours per week, however there may be opportunity to increase this.
Main duties of the job
The skills and qualities needed for this post:
- To utilise highly Specialist Autonomous Professional skills to assess and manage complex frail patients with multiple pathologies including respiratory diseases.
- To support the development of new pathways of care, ensuring governance ,national and local standards are met working with business partners and operational leads to design and embed services an example of such work being the development of tracheostomy care.
- Provide education and leadership to community services, maintaining staffs competencies and enabling improvement to ensure high quality clinical therapy continues to be delivered.
- To communicate with the clinical team in a sensitive professional manner using a positive approach to problem solve complex issues and challenges.
- Work with the operational leadership team to manage staff and ensure HR policies and processes are followed.
- To lead the evaluation and development of Clinical Practice ,providing leadership across the speciality to critically appraise current practice.
- To build relationships across the clinical network, co-ordinating, integrating and improving care pathways and processes across teams, professions and/or sites.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Integrated Community Care is one of three Directorates within the Combined Community and Acute Care Group - it supports people in their own homes and communities by providing high quality health services promoting independence and improving quality of life. The services are delivered by interdisciplinary teams, therapists and district nurses working in partnership to deliver, "what matters to the person" in a patient centred therapy / care plan.
The teams work at neighbourhood level, integrating with social care and voluntary services, developing relationships to meet the longer term anticipatory care needs of individuals.
Relationships with stakeholders based on compassionate and collaborative leadership enable the delivery of high quality rehabilitation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc in Physiotherapy
- HCPC Registration
- Masters degree in a relevant subject or currently undertaking
- Postgraduate Certificate at Masters level in relevant subject to this post
Desirable criteria
- Non-Medical Prescribing
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience as a qualified therapist.
- Significant experience at Specialist level in relevant specialty
- Clinical Educator
- Participation in Research, Clinical Audit & Practice Development
- Supervision and line management of Therapy staff including appraisal
- Professional Presentations
- Experience in emergency respiratory on call including weekend work
Desirable criteria
- Member of Special Interest Group
- Governance
- Teaching
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuous personal & professional development
- Advanced clinical knowledge and skill in specialty
- Knowledge of evidence-base for specialty
- Good basic knowledge of therapy practice for medicine, orthopaedics, neurology
Desirable criteria
- NVQ Assessor
- Clinical Governance
- Risk Assessment
- Research, Clinical Audit or Practice
- Leadership
Special Skills/ Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Excellent team working skills and the ability to work collaboratively.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, team working and leadership skills
- Excellent organisational skills, ability to act on own initiative, to prioritise work and manage multiple tasks for self and other.
- Ability to analyse complex problems, formulate solutions and implement sustainable change.
- Confident in working with a wide range of senior professionals
- Able to maintain confidentiality
- IT literate
- Understanding of stress and ability to help others to cope under pressure.
Other Factors
Essential criteria
- Proactive approach to service delivery
- Car owner / driver
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mike Wigglesworth
- Job title
- Assistant Head of Integrated Community Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07866702821
- Additional information
Cath O'Connor
cath.o'[email protected]
Tel no.: 07814758235
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