Senior Physiotherapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, proactive and self‑motivated physiotherapist, with excellent caseload management and communication skills to work within the Short Term Support Service Team within the Berwick locality. This role aims to enable patients with a wide variety of conditions to be as independent as possible within their own environment by providing specialist physiotherapy assessment and interventions. The team comprises of registered Physiotherapists, registered Occupational Therapists, Technical Instructors and Occupational Therapy Assistants.

We welcome visits from interested candidates if you would like to discuss the post further. Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received. The successful candidate will need to be flexible in their approach to the role. We follow an integrated therapeutic approach to client intervention and are looking to recruit people with a broad experience within MSK, falls, neurological conditions and general elderly frail conditions/multiple co-morbidities.

• Triage and prioritise new referrals received into the service.
• Responsibility for a designated varied caseload of patients: to organise this effectively and efficiently with regards to clinical priorities and use of time.
• To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations using clinical reasoning skills.
• Support patients with individualised goal setting, education and care plans to work towards fulfilling their potential in a goal orientated way.
• Working in partnership with patients, relatives, reablement staff, and externally with other agencies.
• Completing all required training and ensuring own continued professional development.
• To provide line management, supervision, support, guidance and training to Technical Instructors and students.

Benefits: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides a number of staff benefits including personal car lease scheme, discounted gym membership & attractive pension scheme. We 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.

Contact: For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Louise Gebhard, Job title: Physiotherapy Locality Lead, Email address: louise.gebhard@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk, Telephone number: 07812391353, Phil Dixon, Team Lead Community Therapy CBX 07745735140.