Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 24 months (Up to end March 2026)
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (To be discussed at interview.)
- Job ref
- 190-7495-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Advanced Wellbeing and Research Centre
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
We are looking for Specialist Physiotherapist to work in our innovative and rapidly expanding Cancer Prehabilitation and Rehabilitation service.
The successful candidate will join the clinical team of the Active Together service in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, delivering multimodal prehabilitation and rehabilitation to patients receiving cancer treatment. They will support to team in expanding the service to include additional tumour groups, and to continue to develop and improve the existing service.
Main duties of the job
- To assess, plan and deliver physiotherapy and physical activity Prehabilitation and Rehabilitation programmes to patients undergoing a range of oncology treatment pathways.
- To promote healthy living in patients and support behaviour change.
- To support, supervise and train assistants, students, less experienced physiotherapists and other Active Together team members within the service.
- To deputise for the B7 Clinical Lead when necessary.
- Adopt a personalised care approach to management of patients, including an understanding of behaviour change approaches and “what matters to you”
- Contribute to the evaluation of the service against Key Performance Indicators for feedback to Yorkshire Cancer Research.
- Place the need to address health inequalities through Active Together as a priority in patient care and service development.
- Use standardised screening tools to identify dietetic and psychological needs in patients and arrange appropriate onward care
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of 24 months due to the post being externally funded. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts taking into consideration the ongoing source of the external funding and the requirement for the post to be maintained.
Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.
Working for our organisation
This roles sits within the Active Together Sheffield service.
Active Together is a prehabilitation and rehabilitation service supporting people following a cancer diagnosis with physical activity, nutrition, and wellbeing guidance. The service has been designed by Sheffield Hallam University who work in close collaboration with NHS teams to support the delivery and evaluation of the service.
The Active Together service launched in Sheffield in 2022 and this year will expand to new sites across South Yorkshire in Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster. Active Together South Yorkshire will provide equitable, multi-modal and personalised prehabilitation and rehabilitation support that meets the needs of patients across the region and generates evidence for a commissioned service. This is an exciting opportunity to develop and deliver prehabilitation and rehabilitation pathways and help thousands of patients across South Yorkshire.
Active Together is funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research, Yorkshire's independent cancer charity, working so more people can live longer, healthier lives, free from cancer.
The successful candidate will work for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, one of the UK's biggest providers of integrated hospital and community-based healthcare
More details can be found here: https//brilliantplace.sth.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications and Memberships
Essential criteria
- Diploma/Degree in physiotherapy from a CSP recognised training establishment
- Current HCPC registration
- Demonstrate commitment to Continuous Professional Development via personal development plans/file
- Training from Higher Education Institution for graduate physiotherapy student supervision
- Trained in Basic Life Support
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant post graduate development in rehabilitation, or oncology within the NHS.
- Member of CSP
- Member of ACPOPC/special interest group
Experience
Essential criteria
- Completion of post-registration core rotations including surgical and medical rotations
- Experience of supervising, managing and developing more junior staff through PDR
- Supervision & support of students.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in delivering community-based rehabilitation
- Involvement in research
- Involvement in service development
- Involvement in audit
- Experience in delivering cardiac, pulmonary or cancer rehabilitation
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates a clear understanding of current National policies & priorities in Cancer Care services within the NHS
- Demonstrates knowledge of cancer care pathway within the NHS
- Skills for assessing, diagnosing and treating a range of patient conditions relating to clinical area
- Ability to work independently as an autonomous practitioner
- Demonstrates evidence of leadership experience
- Excellent organisational and time management skills to manage a demanding workload and priorities effectively, for yourself and supervised staff
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of an interdisciplinary team, delivering multi-modal prehabilitation and rehabilitation
- Experience of leading in-service training and the ability to pass on knowledge in a formal and informal setting.
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- To have developed coping strategies to deal with the emotional nature of the work
- Basic IT skills and able to maintain accurate written records using IT systems.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Professional at all times and responds effectively under pressure.
- Able to work flexibility and adapt to changing needs of the service
- Effective team member with high level of interpersonal skills
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Motivated and able to motivate others
Others
Essential criteria
- Health clearance from Occupational Health to the role specified
- Due to the requirement to work across sites and transport non-portable equipment, the postholder is required to be either a car driver with a valid driving license, or have access to an alternative means of transport
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
- Jane Gardiner
- Job title
- Lead Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 225 5901
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