Specialist Physiotherapist

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust; Skipton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Skipton is seeking an experienced Specialist Physiotherapist for a 12-month fixed term role. The successful candidate will support the Active Together Programme, focusing on cancer rehabilitation and improving patient outcomes. You'll work closely with a multidisciplinary team and engage in comprehensive patient assessments, treatment planning, and delivery of care. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a transformative healthcare initiative in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Cycle to Work

Travel Scheme

Childcare Vouchers

Onsite Nursery

Buying and Selling Annual Leave

Car Leasing

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Health and Wellbeing

Extensive Reward Scheme

Counselling Service

Financial packages

Staff Networks

Qualifications

• Experience in managing patients with complex comorbidities.
• Ability to formulate evidence-based treatment plans.
• Commitment to improving patient health outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive patient assessments.
• Deliver group physiotherapy activities.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Communication skills

Clinical reasoning

Team collaboration

Patient assessment

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

Job description

This is a very exciting opportunity for an experienced Physiotherapist to support the development, implementation, continuous monitoring and improvement of the Active Together Programme for a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave.

The role of Specialist Physiotherapist is to help deliver and sustain the success of the exercise element of the Active Together Programme at Airedale, working collaboratively with the Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist (Band 7) and Operational Manager.

The Active Together programme runs alongside the existing diagnostic and treatment pathways to ensure patients are optimally prepared for treatment and beyond. It aims to maximise resilience to treatment, improve longer term health, minimise side effects and empower patients to be partners in their healthcare.

The programme combines physical activity, nutritional support and psychological support alongside the clinical pathway. This is a funded 5-year staged implementation programme. Patients receive individual assessments and are triaged into a support pathway suitable to their needs. This is delivered within locality or selected facilities closest to the patient's home or may be a self‑management pathway.

You will be joining a small friendly team based at Skipton Hospital consisting of the Operational Manager, another Physiotherapist, a Dietitian, a Psychologist, and plans to recruit a Project Co‑Ordinator and Fitness Instructors in the future. Support the implementation of the Active Together prehabilitation and rehabilitation services at Airedale NHS foundation trust.

To frequently undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, with a complex presentation and multiple comorbidities.

To analyse the assessment to formulate individualised, evidence‑based treatment plan, using own clinical reasoning and a range of treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care. Prioritising this efficiently considering clinical need, priorities and time management.

Be an integral part of the Cancer Prehabilitation team working within the MDT to deliver a high‑quality effective service, including identification of dietetic and psychological needs of these patients, liaising with the appropriate teams when required.

Please refer to the job description for more information.

If you are applying internally please make ensure you have your line manager's support for this secondment.

Provide expert advice on the most up to date rehabilitation treatment and management for patients referred into the service.

Assess and treat own caseload of patients/clients in various settings including one to one appointments, and group sessions.

To receive and communicate complex, sensitive or contentious information to patients and carers. To have excellent verbal and non‑verbal communication skills of motivation, explanation and reassurance to agree and gain co‑operation of patients and carers in their treatment programmes.

Contribute to the reduction of recurrence of cancer and increased survival rates in West Yorkshire through the design, delivery, and translation of physical activity interventions across the cancer rehabilitation pathway.

To organise and deliver group physiotherapy activities, considering varied patients needs, including both physical and mental needs. Adapting sessions depending on patients changing needs.

Providing training, education and promotion of the Active Together Programme to the wider MDT and working alongside the wider MDT to provide excellent, personalised patient care.

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people's age, lived experience of living with a disability or long‑term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.

We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.

These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once‑in‑a‑career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you'll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state‑of‑the‑art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future - a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family.

Working for our Organisation

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Therapy Services have been working collaboratively with Yorkshire Cancer Research and Sheffield Hallam University to deliver the Active Together programme for people of Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven who have been diagnosed with cancer. We are currently working with patients diagnosed with colorectal, or breast cancer, with plans to open up to other cancer sites.

Benefits

• Cycle to Work
• Travel Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
• Onsite Nursery
• Buying and Selling Annual Leave
• Car Leasing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Health and Wellbeing
• Extensive Reward Scheme
• Counselling Service
• Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
• Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network

Our values

• Committed to Quality of Care
• Compassion
• Working together for patients
• Improving Lives
• Everyone Counts
• Respect and Dignity

Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.

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