Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic orthopaedic team as anAdvanced Physiotherapy Practitioner (APP) specialising in Lower Limbconditions - specifically for the Acute Knee Clinic,working 7.5 hours per week.
As an APP, you will work autonomously and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, delivering expert assessment, diagnosis, and management of complex musculoskeletal presentations. You will play a pivotal role in shaping and leading the knee pathway across Airedale and Skipton sites, working closely with orthopaedic consultants and therapy colleagues.
This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to service development, clinical education, and research while delivering high-quality, patient-centred care. You'll be part of a supportive and forward-thinking team committed to innovation and excellence.
To find out more or arrange an informal chat, contact:Kieran Duxbury - MSK & Pelvic Health Physiotherapy Operational Manager?kieran.duxbury1@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
- Work closely with medical and nursing Orthopaedic colleagues to ensure high quality patient care.
- Be accountable for the quality and safety of advanced and highly skilled assessment and management of patients with a variety of complex, acute and chronic orthopaedic presentations.
- Have a key role in promoting the integration of physiotherapy services within an orthopaedic context.
- Be prepared to work flexibly in terms of time and workload to meet service needs.
- Be professionally accountable but will have access to clinical supervision from a senior clinical practitioner.
- Take a role in overseeing the physiotherapy rehabilitation of patients presenting with more complex lower limb problems
- To oversee the development of the physiotherapy provision for lower limb pathologies across the trusts patch.
About us
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As an Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner (APP) in the Lower Limb Service, you will:
- Work autonomously at an advanced clinical level, delivering expert assessment, diagnosis, and management of patients with complex lower limb conditions - specifically in the Acute Knee Clinic.
- Lead on the development and delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care pathways in collaboration with orthopaedic consultants and the wider multidisciplinary team.
- Provide clinical leadership and supervision to physiotherapy colleagues, supporting service development and professional growth.
- Contribute to service evaluation, audit, and research to ensure continuous improvement and alignment with national guidance and best practice.
- Actively participate in teaching and training across the team and wider service, promoting a culture of learning and excellence.
- Support the integration of physiotherapy within orthopaedic services, ensuring seamless patient care across Airedale and Skipton sites.
- Champion patient-centred care, ensuring safety, dignity, and high standards are maintained at all time
Job description
Job responsibilities
As an Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner (APP) in the Lower Limb Service, you will:
- Work autonomously at an advanced clinical level, delivering expert assessment, diagnosis, and management of patients with complex lower limb conditions - specifically in the Acute Knee Clinic.
- Lead on the development and delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care pathways in collaboration with orthopaedic consultants and the wider multidisciplinary team.
- Provide clinical leadership and supervision to physiotherapy colleagues, supporting service development and professional growth.
- Contribute to service evaluation, audit, and research to ensure continuous improvement and alignment with national guidance and best practice.
- Actively participate in teaching and training across the team and wider service, promoting a culture of learning and excellence.
- Support the integration of physiotherapy within orthopaedic services, ensuring seamless patient care across Airedale and Skipton sites.
- Champion patient-centred care, ensuring safety, dignity, and high standards are maintained at all time
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent pre-registration award in physiotDegree or equivalent pre-registration award in physiotherapyherapy
- State registrations with the Health Care Professions Council
- MSc in an appropriate related area or equivalent level of training.
- Completion of course in Professional Practice education (Student Course)
Desirable
- Certificate in Managing Health Services or equivalent
- Member of relevant Professional special interest groups/organisations
- Qualification in Independent Prescribing.
- Qualification in the administration of joint and soft tissue injections.
- Completion of IRMER training
- Surgical consent training
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post registration experience and significant experience working at band 7 level or above
- Special clinical interest in lower limb - especially with knee conditions - demonstrated by membership of regional and national SIG and ongoing specific CPD.
- Experience of instigating and interpreting investigations and initiating appropriate plans of care for patients.
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Experience of multidisciplinary guideline development, implementation and audit
- Experience of clinical supervision both as supervisee and supervisor
- Experience of managing other people including conducting annual reviews
- Experience of teaching, assessing, coaching and supporting learning to a variety of groups.
Desirable
- Experience in APP role, ideally in lower limb orthopaedics.
- Recent experience of leadership /management role
- Experience of taking part in or leading on Projects/ service improvements
- Experience of taking part in or leading an audit or research project
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist level of knowledge and clinical reasoning skills to support expert clinical practice in lower limb - specifically knee conditions.
- Knowledge of the roles of other professionals and the principles of partnership working with key stakeholders in orthopaedics and MSK Physiotherapy and AHP services.
- Knowledge of clinical standards and ability to implement and audit these in the team
- Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance, audit and research
- Knowledge of the principles of student-centred learning and reflective practice
- Knowledge of relevant national and local legislation relevant to area
Skills
Essential
- Skills to work as of a part team
- Excellent planning and organisational skills and ability to facilitate these skills in others
- Ability to set objectives for self and team and evaluate achievement of these
- Excellent communication and counselling skills including observation, listening, motivational interviewing and empathy
- Excellent interpersonal skills for developing complex working relationships, expressing opinions constructively, seeking consensus and maintaining networks
- Highly developed negotiation and problem-solving skills in complex situations and ability to facilitate these skills in others
- Excellent analytical and reflective skills
- Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal, and ability to adjust style and content as appropriate
- Research awareness skills
- Skills to be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines and to cope with working in a stressful environment, including emotional or aggressive patients and carers
- Concentrate skills to be able to work intensely in a busy environment
- Skills to maintain own professional development and quality of work
- Skills to support Service manager with the organisation of services and projects
Desirable
- Ability to inspire staff to deliver high quality services
- Ability to chair meetings and facilitate workshops effectively
- Ability to adjust management style to suit the situation
- Audit and critical appraisal skills
Personal Attributes and Values
Essential
- Meets Airedale NHS Foundation Trusts Values and Behaviours
- Works independently within parameters set by codes of conduct, professional guidelines and policies
- Actively seeks responsibility, accountability and autonomy
- Always conducts self professionally and able to adapt approach to a range of situations and leads by example
Other
Essential
- Able to access multiple sites across Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent pre-registration award in physiotDegree or equivalent pre-registration award in physiotherapyherapy
- State registrations with the Health Care Professions Council
- MSc in an appropriate related area or equivalent level of training.
- Completion of course in Professional Practice education (Student Course)
Desirable
- Certificate in Managing Health Services or equivalent
- Member of relevant Professional special interest groups/organisations
- Qualification in Independent Prescribing.
- Qualification in the administration of joint and soft tissue injections.
- Completion of IRMER training
- Surgical consent training
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post registration experience and significant experience working at band 7 level or above
- Special clinical interest in lower limb - especially with knee conditions - demonstrated by membership of regional and national SIG and ongoing specific CPD.
- Experience of instigating and interpreting investigations and initiating appropriate plans of care for patients.
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Experience of multidisciplinary guideline development, implementation and audit
- Experience of clinical supervision both as supervisee and supervisor
- Experience of managing other people including conducting annual reviews
- Experience of teaching, assessing, coaching and supporting learning to a variety of groups.
Desirable
- Experience in APP role, ideally in lower limb orthopaedics.
- Recent experience of leadership /management role
- Experience of taking part in or leading on Projects/ service improvements
- Experience of taking part in or leading an audit or research project
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist level of knowledge and clinical reasoning skills to support expert clinical practice in lower limb - specifically knee conditions.
- Knowledge of the roles of other professionals and the principles of partnership working with key stakeholders in orthopaedics and MSK Physiotherapy and AHP services.
- Knowledge of clinical standards and ability to implement and audit these in the team
- Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance, audit and research
- Knowledge of the principles of student-centred learning and reflective practice
- Knowledge of relevant national and local legislation relevant to area
Skills
Essential
- Skills to work as of a part team
- Excellent planning and organisational skills and ability to facilitate these skills in others
- Ability to set objectives for self and team and evaluate achievement of these
- Excellent communication and counselling skills including observation, listening, motivational interviewing and empathy
- Excellent interpersonal skills for developing complex working relationships, expressing opinions constructively, seeking consensus and maintaining networks
- Highly developed negotiation and problem-solving skills in complex situations and ability to facilitate these skills in others
- Excellent analytical and reflective skills
- Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal, and ability to adjust style and content as appropriate
- Research awareness skills
- Skills to be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines and to cope with working in a stressful environment, including emotional or aggressive patients and carers
- Concentrate skills to be able to work intensely in a busy environment
- Skills to maintain own professional development and quality of work
- Skills to support Service manager with the organisation of services and projects
Desirable
- Ability to inspire staff to deliver high quality services
- Ability to chair meetings and facilitate workshops effectively
- Ability to adjust management style to suit the situation
- Audit and critical appraisal skills
Personal Attributes and Values
Essential
- Meets Airedale NHS Foundation Trusts Values and Behaviours
- Works independently within parameters set by codes of conduct, professional guidelines and policies
- Actively seeks responsibility, accountability and autonomy
- Always conducts self professionally and able to adapt approach to a range of situations and leads by example
Other
Essential
- Able to access multiple sites across Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
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.
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.
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).
