Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekends and on-call working on rota basis)
- Job ref
- 382-CS70-24
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Blackpool
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/05/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Rotational Band 6 Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably experienced Physiotherapist to join our well established Band 6 Rotational Scheme.
A Band 5-6 Development post may be considered for candidates with a minimum of 12 months experience at Band 5 level
This position currently offers rotations through the specialist areas of Critical Care, General Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, General Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, Integrated Care of the Older Person team, Integrated Therapy Team Emergency Department & Frailty, Orthopaedics, MSK, Acute Stroke Rehabilitation Unit, Community Neuro (off site), Rehabilitation at Clifton Hospital (off site).
This full time post (37.5 hours per week) will require you to work across a 7 day period, working weekends on a rota basis.
As a Band 6 clinician you will need to have an enthusiastic, problem solving approach to patient management and be forward thinking. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and demonstration of the ability to support other team members are important. The successful candidate will gain experience in assessing and treating a wide variety of clinical conditions and develop managerial skills by teaching and supervising Physiotherapy staff and students.
Main duties of the job
As a Band 6 Physiotherapist you will play a key role in the provision of a high quality physiotherapy service. The employee will be guided and supported through the rotations by clinically specialised staff. The rotations build on previous experience enabling further development of clinical and managerial competencies.
As a Band 6 Physiotherapist we offer the following support to you:
- Professional support via the Therapies Manager, Clinical Team Lead & Clinical Specialist colleagues
- Protected CPD time
- An individualised Job Plan which includes - protected service development / audit time and regular Clinical Supervision
- Opportunity for Leadership training
- Opportunity to contribute to wider departmental developments via Working Party groups
If you are seeking a new opportunity to develop your career and are excited by a dynamic team and working environment then this role is definitely for you.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a large, integrated provider of acute and community services to the 445,000 population of the Fylde coast health economy and the estimated 11 million visitors to the seaside town of Blackpool. With patients and families at the heart of all we do, we are committed to creating a culture that empowers our staff and inspires us all to deliver first class clinical care. We form a central part of the Healthier Fylde Coast Integrated Care Partnership and our progressive approach to partnership working in the area provides an enviable opportunity to redesign and deliver services that meet the challenges of today’s health system.
We recommend that all individuals employed in patient facing roles, or those located on a ward or department where patients receive a service should be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Working hours will vary dependent upon the specific rotation due to 7 day working and long day working. This may involve working evenings and weekends on a rota basis.
- You will have supervision within the clinical rotation by the designated clinical lead which may involve an individual physiotherapist or collaboratively by a team of senior practitioners
- As a Band 6 physiotherapist you will take part in rotational objectives and will be supported via the senior team members as required
- You will take an active role within the physiotherapy respiratory on-call service.
- Some rotations will involve travel to community bases and to patients place of residence.
Main duties include the ability to:
- Work autonomously as part of the related MDT, to practise safely within and adhere to the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) Code of Members’ Professional Values and Behaviour and The Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) standards of practice, The post holder will be required to comply with all relevant Trust policies and guidelines and undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
- Perform advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions, to provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
- Hold responsibility for own caseload and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type, working without direct supervision. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case conferences. Access to advice and support from a senior physiotherapist is available if required, clinical work is not routinely evaluated.
- Supervise, educate and assess the performance of junior physiotherapists, assistants and physiotherapy students; this would be to a graduate standard and involve working with universities to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification.
- Undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and the teams clinical practice within each rotation. Make recommendations to clinical lead/manager of service for changes to practice by the team. May lead the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service protocols.
Band 5-6 Development posts may be considered upon completion of interview process.
For a full list of duties and responsibilities please see Job Description
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate NHS experience in general rotations, including respiratory.
- Management and development and supervision of students, physiotherapy assistants.
- Experience of teaching students and assistants
- Experience of audit process.
- Experience of service improvement projects
- Ability to conduct Clinical Supervision sessions with Junior staff and Therapy assistants
Desirable criteria
- Participation in an On Call Respiratory Service
- Active participation with In-Service Training
- Experience of Integrated working
- Minimum of 12 months post graduate NHS experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree / Diploma in Physiotherapy
- HCPC registered
- Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, Including attendance at recent post graduate courses relevant to the speciality
Desirable criteria
- Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Committed to personal and departmental development.
- Able to work well with others and pass on skills and knowledge
- Able to maintain judgement under pressure
- Motivation, drive and enthusiasm for delivering a quality service as part of the physiotherapy team
- Confident
- Ability to be empathic and discuss sensitive issues.
Other Factors
Essential criteria
- Clear vision of role and commitment to speciality.
- Have good computer and telephone skills.
- Current full drivers licence valid for UK use
- Access to a car for work purposes
- Ability to carry out moderate physical effort
Desirable criteria
- Experience of virtual assessment platforms
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanne Wild
- Job title
- Acute Therapies Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 956646
- Additional information
We would welcome any informal enquiries or visits as appropriate.
David Seddon ([email protected]) or Hannah Pugh ([email protected]) on (01253) 953511
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
BTH
- Telephone
- 01253 957001
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