Job summary
Are you a passionate and motivated Physiotherapist looking for a flexible opportunity to top up your current hours or try something new, in a new environment? We offerflexible working hourson our bank across urgent care and inpatient wards to suit your current lifestyle as we know work / life balance is important. We are particularly looking for physiotherapists to support our weekend service across urgent care and medical wards.
The Therapy team holds a high profile within the wider trust and is at the forefront of many service development strategies, continually developing and introducing new, pioneering prospects for the service.
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 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.
- 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 we have received sufficient applications
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is on an exciting journey with all of our divisions committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). As part of this collaborative approach, there may be a requirement for you to work across both the Kettering and Northampton hospital sites, depending on the needs of the service.
Our Excellence Values
- Compassion
- Accountability
- Respect
- Integrity
- Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across UHN and help to unleash everyone's full potential.
UHN encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for UHN.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading.
This is a Bank post so therefore we cannot sponsor this role
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading.
This is a Bank post so therefore we cannot sponsor this role
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Professional Physiotherapy qualification. State Registered Physiotherapist
Desirable
Knowledge/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.
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 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
- 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.
- Presentation skills.
- Detailed knowledge of national strategies and impact on service provision.
Other
Essential
- Team worker.
- Prepared to be flexible in order to gain good rotation base within the Acute setting.
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Professional Physiotherapy qualification. State Registered Physiotherapist
Desirable
Knowledge/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.
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 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
- 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.
- Presentation skills.
- Detailed knowledge of national strategies and impact on service provision.
Other
Essential
- Team worker.
- Prepared to be flexible in order to gain good rotation base within the Acute setting.
Desirable
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
