Specialist Physiotherapist

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Cramlington; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Pension scheme

Generous leave

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Respiratory Physiotherapist (Band 6) on a fixed-term contract (6 months) for 22.5 hours per week at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, Cramlington. The role includes on-call and weekend work with a pro rata salary of £39,959–£48,117.

The post offers rotations across Respiratory Medicine, Cardiology/Care, A&E, Surgery and Critical Care, with opportunities in clinics and pulmonary rehabilitation.

Qualifications

• BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy and HCPC registration.
• Evidence of continued professional development and CSP membership.
• Post graduate rotations completed; neuro-muscular handling skills.
• Full driving licence and willingness to travel for work.

Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose and treat an independent clinical caseload.
• Work as part of the physiotherapy team under supervision of senior staff.
• Provide high standard respiratory physiotherapy across inpatient, outpatient and community settings.
• Engage in audits, research and service development projects.

Skills

Neuro-muscular handling

Quality improvement

Coaching and mentoring

Post-graduate rotations

Driving licence

Education

BSC Honours in Physiotherapy

HCPC registered

CSP membership

University training qualification

Job description

Main area Senior Physiotherapist - Respiratory Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 6 months (Will include on call and weekend and bank holiday working) Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

22.5 hours per week (22.5 hours per week, 08:30 to 16:30, could include Monday to Sunday, and alternate working hours e.g. early and late shifts. Fixed term contract until 31/03/2027. Potential to extend afterwards.) Job ref 319-8264364GH

Site Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital Town Cramlington Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pro rota per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 24/09/2026 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.

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.

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

We have an exciting opportunity for a Respiratory Physiotherapist to work into the UK’s first Specialist Emergency Care Hospital at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, rated outstanding twice by the CQC.

This post offers rotations into the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital covering Respiratory Medicine, Cardiology and Coronary Care, Accident and Emergency, Surgery and Critical Care. The service also covers Respiratory outpatient services across North Tyneside and Northumberland including consultant-led bronchiectasis and asthma clinics, ILD and breathing pattern disorder clinics, and pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation.

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

Lead by a clinical specialist, the Respiratory Physiotherapy team has a strong service development ethos to continually improve the quality of patient care and work towards national guidelines and quality standards.

There are strong links with the multidisciplinary team and a robust appraisal system is in place to ensure continuous professional development. There is opportunity to be involved in local and national audits, research trials and service development projects.

The successful applicant must demonstrate excellent communication skills with both the multidisciplinary team and peers. There must be evidence of continued professional development and post graduate training to support applications.

It is noted that in the future some posts may not be traditional Monday to Friday as we progress to full 7 day working. We provide a 24-hour respiratory physiotherapy service to Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital so applicants will be required to be on-call as part of a rota. Applicants will need to meet the travel requirements of the post to cover the geographical area of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To assess, diagnose and treat an independent clinical case load.
• To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the guidance and support of more experienced highly specialist senior physiotherapy staff.
• To provide a high standard of physiotherapy care throughout the respiratory speciality, incorporating, inpatient, outpatient and community activity.
• 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.

Person specification

Qualifications / Professional Registration

• BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent experience and/or qualification
• Registered Physiotherapist with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Evidence of continued professional development through self directed learning, in-service training record and attendance at relevant short post graduate courses.
• Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• Student training qualification provided by University

Experience and knowledge

• Candidates should have completed their post graduate core rotations.
• Evidence of developing neuro-muscular handling skills
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools

Other requirements

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.

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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Karen Brewin Job title Principal Physiotherapist (Manager) Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01916072874 Additional information