Job summaryAn exciting opportunity has arisen to become part of our dynamic neuro-elderly service. The successful person will rotate between our main sites of North Tyneside General Hospital, The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital and Wansbeck General Hospital.This rotational post will work with the following services - Front of House, COTE and Stroke in-patients wards, Hyper Acute Stroke Unit, off site Rehabilitation Units, Neuro- Rehabilitation Team and Paediatrics.Main duties of the jobApplicants must be able to demonstrate experience as a Band 5 Physiotherapist in elderly care, Neurology and have some respiratory experience. Skills within orthopaedics would be advantages.The successful applicant must also demonstrate excellent communication skills with both the multidisciplinary team and peers. There must be evidence of continued professional development demonstrating experience to support applications.Applicants will be expected to participate in our 7-day working rota. It is noted that in the future some posts may not be traditional Monday to Friday as we embrace full 7 day working.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.About usWe 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 descriptionJob responsibilitiesTo assess, diagnose and treat an independent clinical caseload.To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the guidance and support of moreexperienced highly specialist senior physiotherapy staff.To provide a high standard of physiotherapy care through one of the following;1) a full range of specialist areas including musculo-skeletal, orthopaedics, elderly care, general medicine, respiratory, neurology, paediatrics, surgery and ITU. The rotational element of the role develops individuals specialist skills across a range of therapeutic modalities.OR2) a static post within one of the above sub-specialist teams. This role will incorporateinpatient, outpatient and community activity in both primary and secondary care settings and support the development of specialist skills and knowledge.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 SpecificationQualificationsEssentialBSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent experience and/or qualificationMember of the Health Professionals CouncilMember of the Chartered Society of PhysiotherapyOther requirementsEssentialIt 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 roleDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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 SponsorshipApplications 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 RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).Employer detailsEmployer nameNorthumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustAddressNorth Tyneside General HospitalRake LaneNorth ShieldsNE28 9NHEmployer's websitehttps://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)