Health Care of Older People Physiotherapist

NHS; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job description

Health Care of Older People Physiotherapist

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

We are looking for a Physiotherapist with recent relevant clinical experience who has a passion for working in the specialty of Health care of Older People.

This is a well-established role where you will be expected to work flexibly across the team as the service demands at Queens Medical Centre site or City campus site of NUH.

The successful candidate will have a broad range of skills including acute experience as a qualified Physiotherapist in the core areas of Respiratory, Health Care of the Older Person, Neurology and MSK- whether this be inpatient in the form of Trauma and orthopaedics or outpatient MSK.

You will have the opportunity to move through the following aspects of the team: Health Care of the Elder Person (both at QMC and City Hospital Campuses) on base wards; Complex Dementia Care with Elderly Mental Health and Acute Medical Admissions Unit.

This is a permanent post where we welcome part-time applicants.

Working days can be discussed further at interview.

Main duties of the job

NUH is a large Acute Teaching Hospital and this post will allow you to work in many specialist areas with a huge variety of patients and to work alongside many experienced Clinicians. You will be expected to work collaboratively across the MDT with a wide range of Health Care Professionals.

You will have excellent communication and team working skills. You will have a flexible approach and the ability to manage your own time and workload in what is a fast-paced working environment. The post has a requirement that you manage and support Band 5's, Support Staff and Students on Clinical Placement allowing you to develop your leadership, managerial and teaching skills. You will need to lead the Team in the absence of the Band 7s.

There is a requirement that you participate in weekend and emergency overnight on-call duties. Previous Respiratory on-call experience is essential.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation. Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career! We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

For full details see attached job description and person specification. For further details contact person named within the advert.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

• BSc honours or equivalent in Physiotherapy
• Evidence of maintaining professional competence through C.P.D.
• State Registered and HCPC.
• Evidence of post-graduate training in specialty.
• Member of CIG
• First line management course.
• Clinical Educators Course.

Experience

• Broad based junior rotational experience with an acute in-patient focus
• Possession of specific knowledge, technical skills and experience in acute in-patient areas to include respiratory, neurology and orthopaedics
• Experience in evaluation of practice. Appraisal of performance.
• Previous Band 6 Experience.
• Experience of audit.

Communication and relationship skills

• Ability to communicate complex information.
• Ability to motivate, train and teach.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate leadership ability.

Analytical and Judgement skills

• Ability to assess, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options.
• Experience of performance management.

Planning and organisation skills

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload.
• Experience of effective delegation.
• Experience of organising others' workload.

Physical skills

• Evidence of manual therapy skills.
• Basic keyboard skills.
• Capacity to carry out treatment handling skills.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities.

Other requirements specific to the role

• Maintain competence in respiratory care for rostered emergency duty work.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.