Bank Physiotherapist

Northumbria Group.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave & pension

Lease car & home electronics scheme

Professional development opportunities

Salary sacrifice savings scheme

Free uniform

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for Highly Motivated Band 5 Physiotherapists to join our flexible staff bank across the Trust. You will provide physiotherapy care across wards and community settings as required.

We offer flexible hours, competitive pay rates with enhanced pay for unsociable hours, paid annual leave and a fast-track path to substantive roles, with opportunities to work across multiple departments and sites.

Qualifications

• BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent.
• Registered Physiotherapist with the Health Professionals Council.
• Evidence of continued professional development through self-directed learning and in-service training record.
• Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

Responsibilities

• To assess and treat an independent physiotherapy caseload.
• To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the supervision of senior physiotherapy staff.
• The rotational element of the role consolidates undergraduate skills and knowledge across a range of therapeutic modalities.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership to shape a culture of learning and quality improvement.

Skills

Communication skills

Clinical reasoning

Adaptability

Education

BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy

Job description

Main area Bank Physio Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Bank Hours Flexible working - 0 hours per week (Ad hoc - As and when) Job ref 319-8403686AZ

Site Trustwide Town Trustwide Salary £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/11/2026 23:59

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
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

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.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has a risen for Highly Motivated Band 5 Physiotherapists to join our staff bank. The purpose of this role is to support the Physiotherapist services Trustwide as and when this is required.

We require reliable, enthusiastic and motivated Physiotherapist to join our bank. In return you will can offer you:

• Flexible hours; choose when and where you want to work
• Competitive pay rates; including enhanced pay for unsociable hours
• Paid annual leave
• A fast-track recruitment process if you move to a substantive role
• Opportunities to work in different wards and departments, including community, dental and specialist services
• Access to Services, such as those provided by our Staff Wellbeing Team
• Ability to book your shifts from home using our online portal
• Option to block-book shifts in a set period
• SMS notifications of shift availability
• Access to staff newsletters and bulletins
• Eligible for various local and national discounts which are available to NHS staff
• Free uniform, where applicable

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

There are bank assignments all around the Trust, including our community settings in Haltwhistle, Berwick, Alnwick, Morpeth, Rothbury, Blyth as well as our main hospitals in Hexham, Ashington, North Tyneside and Cramlington. We have a range of shifts 7 days per week including day shifts, earlies, lates, and weekends. With bank you can pick and choose which shifts suit you.

Working for our organisation

We manage 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!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role is to provide high standards of care to patients accessing our services. You will need to embrace our trust values, demonstrate excellent communication skills, and have a flexible approach to your work. Duties include:

• To assess and treat an independent physiotherapy caseload.
• To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the supervision of senior physiotherapy staff.
• The rotational element of the role consolidates under graduate skills and knowledge across a range of therapeutic modalities
• 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 team / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person specification

Qualifications

• BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent
• Registered Physiotherapist with the Health Professionals Council.
• Evidence of continued professional development through self-directed learning and in-service training record.
• Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

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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.