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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
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Clinical Specialist - Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
Closed for applications on: 27-Sept-2024 15:57
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 27-Sept-2024 15:57
Key details
Location
- Site
- Northumbria Wheelchair Centre
- Address
- Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub
- Town
- Seaton Deleval
- Postcode
- NE25 0QJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Clinical Specialist - Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
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
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
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
Northumbria Wheelchair Services is embarking on a new change and we are looking to recruit an innovative leader to our growing team. This is an exciting time for us as we have introduced a new structure within the service and are recruiting therapists also.
Delivering care to residents across the Northumberland and North Tyneside area, our service is located in recently purpose-built accommodation with excellent staff and patient facilities on the Northumbria manufacturing hub site in Seaton Delaval, Whitley Bay. If you are a wheelchair therapist looking for career development and would like the opportunity to play a leadership part in this forward thinking team then this may be for you.
Due to external promotion we now have a full time vacancy for a Clinical Specialist Wheelchair Therapist to work and lead a team of Wheelchair Therapists and Technical Instructors.
Your primary job role will be to lead the clinical team whilst carrying out complex assessments and provide therapy interventions to our patients both in their own homes and in clinic settings.
It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving license 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
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- To provide a comprehensive service in the specialised area.
- To provide clinical expertise at an advanced level in the assessment, diagnosis and management of highly complex clients.
- To provide specialist input to strategic planning, development, audit and evaluation of clinical services, protocols and policies within the specialised area.
- To work across with other lead specialist clinicians for the identified area, providing highly specialised advice and programmes of care.
- To ensure service provision in the specialised area is prioritised and service delivery is made effectively within resource constraints.
- To practice within the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist assessments, diagnosis and treatment using advanced clinical reasoning skills.
- To manage a caseload of clients (often varied and with highly complex needs), using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
- To provide leadership and clinical education for senior, junior and support staff, through supervision and day-to-day support.
- To plan and implement training at a uni-disciplinary and multi professional level in order to enhance services within the specialism and ensure effective clinical practice
- Oversee personal wheelchair budgets providing guidance and advice to staff and patient
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 be the lead specialist Physiotherapist/Occupational Therapist, working as an autonomous practitioner providing a high standard of Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy, undertaking assessments, diagnosis and therapy to an independent and highly complex caseload of clients within the specialty area.
To analyse the results of the client assessments diagnosing the cause of problems, consider a range of options, formulate professional judgements, develop and implement strategies, which are appropriate for the client and others involved in their lives.
To plan and prioritise client caseloads. To coordinate multidisciplinary activities e.g. daily team handovers, education sessions.
Fitting wheelchairs, postural support and associated equipment with a high degree of accuracy and expertise
Frequent use of highly developed physical therapeutic handling skills, requiring dexterity, co-ordination and sensory skills to conduct Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy assessments and treatment. This may be undertaken in restrictive conditions e.g. client’s homes.
To coordinate day to day activity of more junior staff
To be responsible for the clinical practice, competency and training of the staff within the specialist area, actively supporting staff in the delivery of clinical effectiveness and evidence-based practice through personal development and appraisal
To provide effective guidance, supervision and appraisal for staff.
Required to undertake research/and/or audit projects relevant to wheelchair services and/or service area and disseminate findings at a local and national level.
To lead in the continual evaluation of practice within the specialty through regular patient surveys and audit of activity, clinical outcomes and standards.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Authorisation
Essential criteria
- Evidence of significant post registration experience including substantial experience in a specialist senior role.
- Detailed knowledge of current best practice government initiatives and legislation in specialised area.
- Evidence of highly specialist clinical skills and knowledge.
- Experience and working understanding of audit procedures
- Taking a lead role in the implementation of current research in this specialist area, both formally and informally.
Desirable criteria
- Extensive post registration experience at an advanced level.
- Extensive postgraduate training relevant to specialist area
- Demonstrate a higher-level knowledge of research methodology and use of evidence-based practice; to actively initiate and participate in research and audit relevant to the specialism.
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.
Criteria
Essential criteria
- Diploma/Degree with Honors of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) or Diploma of the College of Occupational Therapist (with Honours) or degree in Occupational Therapy.
- Health & Care Professionals Council registered
- Post Graduate training relevant to specialist area.
Desirable criteria
- Practice placement qualification
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Burrows
- Job title
- Senior Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07394 865569
- Additional information
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