Specialist Physiotherapist (Musculoskeletal)

Northumbria Group.; Ashington; Remote; GBP 40.000 - 48.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Physiotherapist (Musculoskeletal) to join the MSK/JMAPS services at Wansbeck General Hospital and surrounding sites in Ashington. The post is Band 6, full-time, with flexible working arrangements and a permanent contract.

The role involves complex MSK caseload management, post-operative care, and opportunities for professional development within a supportive team.

Qualifikationen

• BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent.
• HCPC registration or eligible for registration.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP).
• Student training qualification provided by University.

Aufgaben

• Assess and treat an independent musculoskeletal physiotherapy caseload.
• Work towards as a First Contact Practitioner with indirect supervision as required.
• Work as part of the physiotherapy team under supervision of senior staff.
• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for a clinical caseload.
• Liaise with senior staff to ensure appropriate patient management.
• Provide supervision to Band 5, unregistered staff and students.
• Maintain evidence-based practice and update knowledge through ongoing CPD.

Ausbildung

BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy

Registered Physiotherapist with HCPC

Evidence of continuing professional development

Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

Student training qualification

Jobbeschreibung

Specialist Physiotherapist (Musculoskeletal)

NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area Physiotherapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week Job ref 319-8334684SA

Site Wansbeck General Hospital (and surrounding JMAPS sites and GP practices) Town Ashington Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/10/2026 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 arisen to recruit a Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapist to work in JMAPS (Joint Musculoskeletal And Pain Service) and our First Contact Practice Musculoskeletal team. Ideal for enthusiastic, skilled, staff who have evidence of significant experience in musculoskeletal physiotherapy including post-operative care.

The role, based within the Physiotherapy department at Wansbeck General Hospital and/or the surrounding JMAPS sites and GP practices. There is potential for Trust wide working. There may be development opportunities in group rehabilitation, rheumatology physiotherapy and pain management physiotherapy.

CPD is actively encouraged within our teams and supervision is provided by Senior Physiotherapy clinicians supporting staff to achieve their individual learning outcomes, supported by a robust appraisal system.

Please note: The vacancy may be closed before the closing date if there are a high number of applicants. All interviews will be face to face.

Main duties of the job

• To assess and treat an independent physiotherapy caseload.
• To work or work towards working as a First Contact Practitioner with indirect supervision as required.
• To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the supervision of senior physiotherapy staff.
• To assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for an individual clinical caseload.
• To liaise with senior staff on a regular basis to ensure appropriate management of patients.
• To delegate appropriately to unregistered workforce.
• To provide supervision to Band 5, unregistered staff and students.
• With guidance from senior physiotherapists, maintain a high level of evidence-based practice through continual review of current research, thus enhancing standards of patient care.

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 identify patients’ capacity to consent to treatment and apply the departments consent protocol.
• To provide management of patients attending with musculoskeletal conditions. Some clinics will be telephone clinics.
• To contribute to the supervision of technical instructors, physiotherapy assistants, physiotherapists and students.
• To maintain a high standard of clinical record keeping in accordance with CSP guidelines and trust wide physiotherapy standards for documentation.
• To attend departmental meetings as appropriate.
• To attend relevant post graduate lectures and in-service training to consolidate undergraduate knowledge and increase skills appropriate to each rotation.

Person specification

• 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 post graduate core rotations
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

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.

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 Kathy Mills Job title Clinical Manager JMAPS Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07512357492