Specialist Physiotherapist

Northumbria Group.; South Shields; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing programme

Staff network groups

Generous annual leave and pension

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Band 6 Physiotherapist to join the inpatient Care of the Elderly team at North Tyneside General Hospital on a 12-month fixed-term basis. The post is part-time (22.5 hours/week) with weekend work and a pro rata salary of £39,959–£48,117.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality rehabilitation and discharge planning for older adults, across several wards, in a flexible working environment.

Qualifications

• BSc Hons in Physiotherapy or equivalent.
• Registered with HCPC and CSP member.
• Experience in core practice areas: orthopaedics/MSK, elderly/neurology, respiratory.

Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose and treat an independent clinical caseload.
• Work within the physiotherapy team under supervision of senior staff.
• Demonstrate compassionate leadership and support teamwork across departments.

Skills

Orthopaedics/MSK

Neurology/Elderly care

Respiratory

Education

BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy

HCPC registration

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy member

Job description

Main area Band 6 Senior Physiotherapist Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Static post with the in-patient Care of the Elderly Team at North Tyneside General Hospital) Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

22.5 hours per week (This role will involve weekend working.) Job ref 319-8382767AZ

Site North Tyneside General Hospital Town North Shields Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/11/2026 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.

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

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Physiotherapist to join our inpatient Care of the Elderly team at North Tyneside General Hospital on a fixed-term basis. This static Band 6 role offers the opportunity to work within a supportive multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality, patient-centred rehabilitation and discharge planning for older adults across a number of wards.

As a minimum, applicants must be able to demonstrate experience at Band 5 Physiotherapist or higher in the core areas of practice: Orthopaedics/MSK, Neurology/Elderly care, and Respiratory.

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.

All interviews will be held face to face.

Main duties of the job

This will be a static post and role in elderly care outpatient setting.

• To assess, diagnose and treat an independent clinical caseload.
• To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the guidance and support of more experienced highly specialist senior physiotherapy staff.
• 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.

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! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Candidates should have completed their
  post graduate core rotations.
• Competent to assess and treat an independent caseload
• Awareness of relevant Department of
  Health initiatives and National Service Frameworks relating to clinical guidelines
• To consolidate post graduate skills and enhance more specialist skills and knowledge developing towards Specialist Senior Physiotherapist.

For further details please see attached job description and person specification.

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.

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

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.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

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 Katy McKinney Job title Principal Physiotherapist Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07702617286 Additional information

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