Physiotherapist @ Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We have an opportunity for a Band 5 Physiotherapist to join our friendly, innovative and dynamic Therapy Team.

Are you a new graduate or existing Band 5 looking for the next step in your career, to develop your leadership skills and consolidate your clinical knowledge? Or are you a physiotherapist looking to return to practice?

Working across the fast paced environments of ED through to the respiratory community team, or from intensive care through to orthopaedic trauma wards we have rotations to suit everyone.

We offer the opportunity to gain clinical development in a variety of areas:

• Accident & Emergency, Urgent Care Wards
• Acute Medicine
• Orthopaedics - trauma , day case and elective
• Critical care and ICU, Respiratory Wards
• Fracture Clinic

We offer an established preceptorship programme for new graduates, extensive on-call and respiratory simulation training in our simulation lab, a Band 5 Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy development forum and mentorship to support your career development.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
• To plan and prioritise own patient caseload, working with direct support of a senior member of staff. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions and peer review.
• To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• Assist in audit and/or research projects to further own and team's clinical practice within each rotation.
• To provide high quality, evidence-based care across the seven day service and participate in the oncall rota for adults, children and young people as the service requires.

About us

Please submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close adverts once sufficient applications have been received.

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University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.

Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you are a Physiotherapist looking to return to practice - we have an exciting initiative to be able to provide a return to practice Band 5 physiotherapy post for physiotherapists who have had relevant previous experience in an acute setting and are ready to begin their return to practice. We will support you with experience working in different clinical settings andcompetencies to enable you to successfully complete your return to practice and re-registration with HCPC. You will initially be paid as a pre-registration Band 4 for 6 months until your return to practice process is completed and you have successfully gained your HCPC registration, when you will be re-graded as a Band5 within the team.

All band 5 posts offer the opportunity to acquire specialist skills across the clinical settings, these posts are ideal in not just developing your clinical skills but developing key leadership roles in the service. The post is full-time, all physiotherapists work across 7 days with the addition of overnight on-calls 7 days a week. You will need to be a car driver or be able to travel to the trust within 45 minutes when responding to oncalls (24 hours).

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the Shortlisting Criteria section of the document

Person Specification

Education, training and qualification

Essential

• Professional Physiotherapy qualification. State Registered Physiotherapist

Desirable

• Member of CSP

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Good range of core pre-reg student placements
• Previous experience of working within an Acute NHS setting
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams. Paediatrics, learning disability experience.

Desirable

• Previous working in a care / public sector environment

Skills

Essential

• Evidence of well-developed good clinical reasoning skills.
• Proven Physiotherapy Respiratory skills appropriate to Band 5 level
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of Physiotherapy working practices within an Acute NHS setting.
• Good communication and customer service skills. Able to organise own workload.
• Able to undertake moderate to intense physical effort throughout the day
• Ability to keep accurate and legible notes.
• Evidence of having developed a wide clinical knowledge base within student placements and early professional career.
• Good awareness of national and NHS strategies
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of the principles underlying the appropriate delegation of tasks to others
• Ability to work across 7 day service and participate in the overnight oncall rota (adults, children and young people).
• Car driver or able to travel to the trust within 45 minutes when responding to oncalls (24 hours).

Desirable

• Evidence of post graduate training if not 1st post
• Ability to work in a stressful environment.
• Understanding of legal responsibilities of the profession.

Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes

Essential

• Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
• Team worker.
• Prepared to be flexible in order to gain good rotation base within the Acute setting
• Reliable

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

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

University Hospitals of Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire

Kettering

NN16 8UZ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.kgh.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)