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Job summary

Main area
Growing the Friarage & Community Services L3
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 7 months (Maternity cover - secondment for internal staff)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day service - Opportunity to work 4 day week, to include some weekend work.)
Job ref
328-FCS-7159338-A
Employer
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Friarage Hospital
Town
Northallerton
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/08/2025 23:59

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Senior Physiotherapist

Band 6

Job overview

If you are an internal member of staff applying for secondment, please make sure you have confirmation from your current line manager that you can be released for secondment.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced, dynamic and enthusiastic Physiotherapist to join our Inpatient Therapy Team.   The post holder will be employed as a Senior Physiotherapist working collaboratively with other Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists,  and Assistants across the Front of house and medical wards

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in the country, close to the North Yorkshire Moors and within easy reach of Newcastle and Leeds. It comprises two acute hospitals, James Cook University Hospital and Friarage Hospital Northallerton and a number of community hospitals.

Therapy services at South Tees NHS trust are also part of the wider Integrated Therapy service. This is a unique partnership between Health and Social care in South Tees with a commitment to working together, improving the quality of our services and getting rid of existing barriers between health and social services.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to have experience in the occupational therapy assessment and management of acute care patients, patient flow and facilitating discharges and have gained experience across a variety of specialities.

The Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Service are well established large, progressive and dynamic services, which continue to develop within the Trust. The team is friendly and supportive and mentorship for this role will be available from senior clinicians and the AHP Service Leads.

This post offers development in clinical and leadership skills and the post holder will be supported to attend relevant post graduate courses. We have an established and comprehensive training programme and our staff are encouraged and supported in their CPD through workshops, clinical supervision and the appraisal process. There is also an expectation to actively participate in audit and research and the Hospital has close links with both the University of Teesside and Durham University

Working for our organisation

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff.  This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.  You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

•    Your Leadership Impact
•    Leading your Team to Success
•    Leading Into the Future 
•    Service Improvement for Beginners
•    Developing your Service Improvement Skills 
•    Lean Practitioner 

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

•    Explore leadership within the NHS
•    Promote Trust values and behaviours
•    Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills 
•    Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Knowledge & Skills

Essential criteria
  • Basic IT skills
  • Demonstrates analytical skills and judgement when dealing with the Physiotherapy management of complex clients
  • To display effective communication skills, communicating complex, sensitive and contentious information to patients, carers and colleagues
  • Good understanding of the structure, policies, priorities and format of the NHS
  • Good teaching and supervisory skills
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of taking a lead role in MDT working

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience at band 5 level including work as a rotational Physiotherapist in a variety of specialties
  • • Experience working as an autonomous practitioner at a band 5 level within the NHS

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Diploma or BSc in Physiotherapy
  • HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of relevant Postgrad qualification

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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.

Application numbers

Please note that this vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jenna Wilkes
Job title
Clinical Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01609 763050
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