About this role
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Respiratory Physiotherapist to work into the UK's first Specialist Emergency Care Hospital at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, rated outstanding twice by the CQC.
This post offers rotations into the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital covering Respiratory Medicine, Cardiology and Coronary Care, Accident and Emergency, Surgery and Critical Care. The service also covers Respiratory outpatient services across North Tyneside and Northumberland including consultant-led bronchiectasis and asthma clinics, ILD and breathing pattern disorder clinics, and pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation.
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.
Main duties of the job
Lead by a clinical specialist, the Respiratory Physiotherapy team has a strong service development ethos to continually improve the quality of patient care and work towards national guidelines and quality standards.
There are strong links with the multidisciplinary team and a robust appraisal system is in place to ensure continuous professional development. There is opportunity to be involved in local and national audits, research trials and service development projects.
The successful applicant must demonstrate excellent communication skills with both the multidisciplinary team and peers. There must be evidence of continued professional development and post graduate training to support applications.
It is noted that in the future some posts may not be traditional Monday to Friday as we progress to full 7 day working. We provide a 24-hour respiratory physiotherapy service to Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital so applicants will be required to be on-call as part of a rota. Applicants will need to meet the travel requirements of the post to cover the geographical area of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
To assess, diagnose and treat an independent clinical case load. To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the guidance and support of more experienced highly specialist senior physiotherapy staff. To provide a high standard of physiotherapy care throughout the respiratory speciality, incorporating, inpatient, outpatient and community activity. 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration Essential
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.
Desirable
Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Student training qualification provided by University
Experience and knowledge Essential
Candidates should have completed their post graduate core rotations. Competent to assess and treat an independent caseload
Desirable
Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods Competent in the emergency care of respiratory patients including NIV Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
Other requirements Essential
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.
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 Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
Northumbria Way
Cramlington
NE23 6NZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)