Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

NRC Physiotherapist - Highly Specialist Band 7

The closing date is 18 May 2025

Job summary

Are you ready to join a team of pioneers ready to revolutionise the future of rehabilitation? Do you have a passion for transforming the lives of people who have experienced severe injury or illness? Here at the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) you will join an innovative, forward-thinking team with the collective objective of providing first class rehabilitation to our patients.

The role of the NRC case manager is integral to the patient journey and interdisciplinary team. This role drives the coordination of admission, management of the patient journey and rehabilitation programmes, and discharge from the NRC whilst maintaining a key liaison role for families and carers. The post holder will be experienced in senior healthcare leadership, coordination of patient pathways, aligning professional and patient expectations and driving timely clinical decision making. The post holders will promote the clinically excellent model of rehabilitation at the NRC ensuring strong and visible clinical leadership throughout the patient journey.

Why choose the NRC? You will be at the forefront of big change over the next few years. Your contribution will be vital but not only that, you will be supported to grow and learn through our many developmental programmes at the NRC as well as to engaging in research an innovation.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the above summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Details

Date posted

07 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

164-7109547

Job locations

NRC / City / QMC

Stanford Hall Estate

Loughborough

LE12 5GF


Job description

Job responsibilities

In addition to the below summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

Planning for the NRC is in its advanced stages, and the building will be ready in the summer of 2025. This role will be temporarily based at City Hospital until we move to the 70 bed NRC facility in summer 2025.

For more details of the centre please visit the NRC website www.nationalrehabilitationcentre.nhs.uk.

Job description

Job responsibilities

In addition to the below summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

Planning for the NRC is in its advanced stages, and the building will be ready in the summer of 2025. This role will be temporarily based at City Hospital until we move to the 70 bed NRC facility in summer 2025.

For more details of the centre please visit the NRC website www.nationalrehabilitationcentre.nhs.uk.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • BSc Hons (or equivalent) Physiotherapy
  • HCPC registration.
  • Requires specialist knowledge in rehabilitation.
  • Recognised post-graduate training relevant to specialty (e.g. either obtained MSc or completed modules
  • Evidence of maintaining professional competence through CPD. Clinical Educators Course - relevant course to train/supervise students in own profession

Desirable

  • First line management course e.g. BELS
  • Full membership of professional body
  • Member of specialist interest group

Experience

Essential

  • Member of specialist interest group Experience of management of performance and sickness of staff and participation in recruitment of new staff to maximize workforce potential.
  • Experience in evaluation of evidence-based practice, audit, service development and benchmarking
  • Experience in use of appropriate outcome measures
  • Awareness legislation relating to health and safety, litigation and Data protection.

Desirable

  • Band 7 experience in patients with complex rehab and high acuity needs.
  • Experience of managing tracheostomy patients and acute respiratory patients.
  • Experience of quality improvement and/or research.
  • Experience in using technology within clinical practice delivery
  • Awareness of Good Clinical Practice Guidance (GCP) for research
  • Teaching and facilitating courses

Communication And Relationship Skills

Essential

  • Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including explaining, negotiating, motivating and training
  • Participation and leading /organising in-service training programmes
  • Present to groups of up to 25.
  • Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
  • Demonstrate leadership ability.
  • Able to communication complex condition related information to patients, relatives/carers and other clinical/social care staff where there may be barriers to understanding e.g. language barriers, speech, cognitive problems
  • To feedback constructive criticism with tact and diplomacy in performance management of staff.
  • Able to maintain accurate and comprehensive treatment records in line with the trust policy and departmental procedures

Desirable

  • Ability to reflect and learn from instances when communication and professional relationships have not gone well

Analytical & Judgement Skills

Essential

  • Ability to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options.
  • .Ability to solve problems within the team and make decisions where there are a range of options including clinical and strategic issues
  • Assess and manage risk in own area.
  • Evaluation of clinical and non-clinical interventions of self and the team
  • Ability to collate information to identify trends and inform service development e.g. use of spreadsheets, computer generated workload stats.
  • Ability to prepare annual review of specialty service.

Desirable

  • More advanced analytical skill using quantitative e.g. SPSS and qualitative e.g. thematic analysis and/or mixed methodologies

Planning and Organisation Skills

Essential

  • Ability to organise and prioritise workload of yourself and your team, including daily tasks and longer-term planning despite interruptions and changing priorities
  • Effective delegation and time management skills.

Desirable

  • Ability to plan and contribute to the service delivery up to a year ahead and with the interdisciplinary team in own clinical area using available resources.

Physical Skills

Essential

  • Evidence of appropriate and relevant manual therapy skills to maximise rehabilitation and health outcomes
  • Basic keyboard skills including the inputting of data.
  • Ability to use a range of medical devices, some of which require dexterity and accuracy

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Undertake out of hours duties as required.
  • Able to travel to required areas within and beyond the Trust
  • Maintain competence in respiratory care where appropriate

Desirable

  • Openness and enthusiasm to work with new technologies to advance practice
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • BSc Hons (or equivalent) Physiotherapy
  • HCPC registration.
  • Requires specialist knowledge in rehabilitation.
  • Recognised post-graduate training relevant to specialty (e.g. either obtained MSc or completed modules
  • Evidence of maintaining professional competence through CPD. Clinical Educators Course - relevant course to train/supervise students in own profession

Desirable

  • First line management course e.g. BELS
  • Full membership of professional body
  • Member of specialist interest group

Experience

Essential

  • Member of specialist interest group Experience of management of performance and sickness of staff and participation in recruitment of new staff to maximize workforce potential.
  • Experience in evaluation of evidence-based practice, audit, service development and benchmarking
  • Experience in use of appropriate outcome measures
  • Awareness legislation relating to health and safety, litigation and Data protection.

Desirable

  • Band 7 experience in patients with complex rehab and high acuity needs.
  • Experience of managing tracheostomy patients and acute respiratory patients.
  • Experience of quality improvement and/or research.
  • Experience in using technology within clinical practice delivery
  • Awareness of Good Clinical Practice Guidance (GCP) for research
  • Teaching and facilitating courses

Communication And Relationship Skills

Essential

  • Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including explaining, negotiating, motivating and training
  • Participation and leading /organising in-service training programmes
  • Present to groups of up to 25.
  • Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
  • Demonstrate leadership ability.
  • Able to communication complex condition related information to patients, relatives/carers and other clinical/social care staff where there may be barriers to understanding e.g. language barriers, speech, cognitive problems
  • To feedback constructive criticism with tact and diplomacy in performance management of staff.
  • Able to maintain accurate and comprehensive treatment records in line with the trust policy and departmental procedures

Desirable

  • Ability to reflect and learn from instances when communication and professional relationships have not gone well

Analytical & Judgement Skills

Essential

  • Ability to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options.
  • .Ability to solve problems within the team and make decisions where there are a range of options including clinical and strategic issues
  • Assess and manage risk in own area.
  • Evaluation of clinical and non-clinical interventions of self and the team
  • Ability to collate information to identify trends and inform service development e.g. use of spreadsheets, computer generated workload stats.
  • Ability to prepare annual review of specialty service.

Desirable

  • More advanced analytical skill using quantitative e.g. SPSS and qualitative e.g. thematic analysis and/or mixed methodologies

Planning and Organisation Skills

Essential

  • Ability to organise and prioritise workload of yourself and your team, including daily tasks and longer-term planning despite interruptions and changing priorities
  • Effective delegation and time management skills.

Desirable

  • Ability to plan and contribute to the service delivery up to a year ahead and with the interdisciplinary team in own clinical area using available resources.

Physical Skills

Essential

  • Evidence of appropriate and relevant manual therapy skills to maximise rehabilitation and health outcomes
  • Basic keyboard skills including the inputting of data.
  • Ability to use a range of medical devices, some of which require dexterity and accuracy

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Undertake out of hours duties as required.
  • Able to travel to required areas within and beyond the Trust
  • Maintain competence in respiratory care where appropriate

Desirable

  • Openness and enthusiasm to work with new technologies to advance practice

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).

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 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

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

NRC / City / QMC

Stanford Hall Estate

Loughborough

LE12 5GF


Employer's website

https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

NRC / City / QMC

Stanford Hall Estate

Loughborough

LE12 5GF


Employer's website

https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Consultant AHP

Dr Emma Salt

emma.salt7@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

07 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

164-7109547

Job locations

NRC / City / QMC

Stanford Hall Estate

Loughborough

LE12 5GF


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