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Job summary

Main area
Physiotherapy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
18.75 hours per week
Job ref
319-6235259RG-A
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
North Tyneside General Hospital
Town
North Shields
Salary
£25,147 - £27,596 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Physiotherapy Technical Instructor

NHS AfC: Band 4

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy team within NTIMS (North Tyneside Integrated Musculoskeletal Service). The post-holder will mainly be based at North Tyneside General Hospital, working in the main musculoskeletal outpatients department, gym-based functional rehabilitation classes, but may also be required to work at other sites.

 

 

Main duties of the job

The post would require the applicant to be competent in assessing and issuing appropriate walking aids.  They would be required to assist the Physiotherapists in the treatment of their patients, working to defined protocols and treatment plans, but being confident to advise regarding basic treatment progressions without direct supervision. The successful applicant would be expected to manage their own clinical caseload of non-complex conditions.  The applicant would be required to oversee preplanned gym sessions and apply basic progressions of treatment. 

Working for our organisation

NTIMS (North Tyneside Integrated Musculoskeletal Service) is the musculoskeletal Physiotherapy service in North Tyneside and is part of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Based at North Tyneside Hospital we also provide clinics at GP practices around the region.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust manages 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. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main duties of this role will include;

  • To work under the supervision of a qualified Physiotherapist to implement treatment programmes for individual patients or groups of patients.
  • To assist Physiotherapists in the treatment of their patients, working to defined protocols and treatment plans.
  • To carry own clinical caseload of non complex conditions.
  • Demonstrate and apply the underpinning knowledge to modify and progress patient treatment programmes without direct supervision.
  • To be responsible for the overall hygiene & maintenance of the department and equipment.

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualification and/or experience is essential to this role. Basic IT skills are also essential and driving licence is desirable.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Possess NVQ level III or equivalent competencies
  • Willing to undertake external qualification e.g. Halliwick hydrotherapy, YMCA fitness instructor
Desirable criteria
  • Willing to undertake NVQ Assessors course

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Ben Alcock
Job title
Clinical Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07876004031
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