Senior Physiotherapist (Band 6)
Job Description
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. Working within our community team benefits from flexible and agile working opportunities, supportive annual development, health and well-being support whilst using your clinical decision making to developpersonalised care.
An innovative role has arisen for a senior community Physiotherapist to join our established integrated intermediate care team. The team provide an urgent community response service to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and a virtual ward to support patients to remain at home wherever possible and facilitate safe hospital discharge.
We offer a robust induction programme, on the job training, annual appraisal, 1:1 supervision and opportunities for development. We encourage applicants to contact us if they are interested in thispost so you can see first-hand how the team functions and learn about this fantastic opportunity.
This is a 24 hour a day 7 days a week service operating 365 days a year therefore the post holder will be expected to work shift patterns to cover the service including Early, Lates or Long Days and have access to own transport.
Previous Applicants need not re-apply
30hrs per week, maternity leave for 12 months
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
- Provide a personalised intermediate care service to adults in their own home within Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven areas. This also includes providing therapy support to patients in Castleberg Hospital.
- Perform Physiotherapy assessment of patients with a diverse range of presentations and complicated physical and psychological conditions, to provide a diagnosis, develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme in conjunction with the rest of the team.
- Provide a key role in working in partnership with medical colleagues, multidisciplinary teams (MDT) and carers to set realistic objectives and to help to facilitate goal and discharge planning to enable safe discharge from our service.
- Work to support the team in its delivery of interventions, to skill share with other professionals to support the full breadth of the service (competency training is offered to support this skill sharing method of delivering intervention).
In pursuing these duties, the post holder will ensure compliance with the NHS Constitution and be familiar with the NHS England Guidance 'Understanding the new NHS'.
About us
We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.
We want to attract staff who embrace our behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients - we want to make these part of our DNA.
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- 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.
Trust values:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Job responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification within advert, this includes essential and desirable criteria.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent pre - registration award in Physiotherapy
- UK registration with the Health Care Professions Council
Desirable
- Relevant qualifications in a related subject and / or evidence of post registration training and development
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Experience
Essential
- Physiotherapy assessment and treatment skills
- Supervisory and leadership skills
- Experience of MDT working
- Car driver and access to a car for work purposes
Desirable
- Experience of working in the community
- Experience of SystmOne
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 UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Airedale General Hospital
Keighley
BD206TD
