Senior Physiotherapist

Job description

Job summary

This vacancy is only open at this stage to internal employees of the following organisations within the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care System:

• North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
• Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
• University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, inclusive of Black Country Procurement Group and North Midlands and Cheshire Pathology Service.
• Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board.

We are looking for an experienced physiotherapist wanting new challenges, to widen their experience, to develop their leadership and teaching skills and grow their clinical ability. The successful candidate needs to be an enthusiastic therapist with strong clinical and team working skills, who has a positive and resilient outlook who is able to embrace the challenges and opportunities of working in a large acute trust.

This exciting rotational full-time post in the Therapies team at the University Hospitals of North Midlands has rotations including:

• Inpatient:
  • Acute Rehabilitation Trauma Unit
  • # Neck of Femur
  • Elective Orthopaedics (Royal Stoke and Stafford Sites)
  • Trauma
• Outpatient:
  • Acute Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy (Royal Stoke and Stafford Sites)
  • Gymnasium

Main duties of the job

This experience will give the post holder an excellent opportunity to develop their leadership and management skills, as well as building clinical expertise that will enhance and broaden clinical skills.

Supervision will be provided by the Advanced Therapists and Principal Therapists; continuous development is supported through appraisal, internal training and external learning.

The University Hospital of North Midlands is located on 2 hospital sites and the post works within a 7 day shift system which includes weekend, late shift, bank holidays and on-call working.

About us

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details on this post please refer to the attached job description and personal specification.

Job description
Job responsibilities

For further details on this post please refer to the attached job description and personal specification.

Person Specification

Essential Qualifications

Essential

• Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
• Registered with HCPC
• CPD relevant to speciality area

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 18 months graduate experience as a Physiotherapist
• Experience of supporting/supervising staff

Desirable

• Experience relevant to speciality area
• Experience gained within an acute NHS setting

Personal qualities

Essential

• Ability to travel to and work across multiple sites

Knowledge, Skills & Training

Essential

• Experience of Audits

Desirable

• Trained Clinical Educator

Person Specification
Essential Qualifications

Essential

• Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
• Registered with HCPC
• CPD relevant to speciality area

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 18 months graduate experience as a Physiotherapist
• Experience of supporting/supervising staff

Desirable

• Experience relevant to speciality area
• Experience gained within an acute NHS setting

Personal qualities

Essential

• Ability to travel to and work across multiple sites

Knowledge, Skills & Training

Essential

• Experience of Audits

Desirable

• Trained Clinical Educator

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust
Address

Royal Stoke Hospital

Newcastle Road

Stoke-on-Trent

ST4 6QG

United Kingdom

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