Job summary
- Main area
- Therapy services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7622335
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Skipton Hospital
- Town
- Skipton
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist - Active Together Programme
NHS AfC: Band 7
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
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Job overview
This is a very exciting opportunity for an experienced Physiotherapist to support the development, implementation, continuous monitoring and improvement of the Active Together Programme for a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave.
The role of clinical specialist physiotherapist is to lead, deliver and sustain the success of the exercise element of the Active Together Programme at Airedale, working collaboratively with the operational manager. The Active Together programme runs alongside the existing diagnostic and treatment pathways to ensure patients are optimally prepared for treatment and beyond. It aims to maximise resilience to treatment, improve longer term health, minimise side effects and empower patients to be partners in their healthcare.
The programme combines physical activity, nutritional support and psychological support alongside the clinical pathway. This is a funded 5-year staged implementation programme. Patients receive individual assessments and are triaged into a support pathway suitable to their needs. This is delivered within locality or selected facilities closest to the patient's home or may be a self-management pathway.
You will be joining a small friendly team based at Skipton Hospital consisting of the Operational Manager, another Physiotherapist, a Dietitian, a Psychologist, and plans to recruit a Project co-ordinator, and Fitness Instructors in the future.
Main duties of the job
- Lead and support the implementation of the Cancer Prehabilitation services at Airedale NHS foundation trust, in conjunction with the Operation Lead
- Coordinate Physiotherapy input to patients referred into the Airedale NHS foundation trust Cancer Prehabilitation service.
- Provide Physiotherapy leadership for an evidence-based physical activity rehabilitation pathway for people with a cancer diagnosis, with curative intent, across multiple cancer pathways.
- Be an integral part of the Cancer Prehabilitation team working alongside the operational lead and the MDT to deliver a high-quality effective service
- Work with professional groups and services to ensure that developments within the service meet national, local, and organisational priorities in relation to service delivery, clinical governance, and leadership, aiming to ensure that statutory procedures are appropriately managed and delivered
- Assess and treat own complex caseload of patients/clients
- Design and implement clinical protocols for the physical activity and exercise components of the pathway
- Act as a professional resource and advisor, providing support and guidance on all matters concerning cancer rehabilitation including embedding principles of co-production, value-based care, prudent healthcare, supporting self-management and protecting the most vulnerable
- Provide a key role in partnership working with patients, carers, the MDT, and wider statutory, private, and voluntary sector services.
Working for our organisation
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Therapy Services have been working collaboratively with Yorkshire Cancer Research and Sheffield Hallam University to deliver the Active Together programme for people of Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven who have been diagnosed with cancer. We are currently working with patients diagnosed with colorectal, or breast cancer, with plans to open up to other cancer sites.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If you are applying internally please make ensure you have your line manager's support for this secondment.
Please see attached job description for full details
Responsibilities under:
Principle duties and responsibilities
Leadership and management
Personal and professional development
Service improvement and governance
Professional registration
Other including collaborative working
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC registration as Physiotherapist
- Completion of course in professional practice educcation
- Degree or equivalent pre-registration award in Physiotherapy
Desirable criteria
- Member of relevant Professional special interest groups (CSP).
- Recent post graduate courses relevant to the Cancer/Cancer rehabilitation.
- Recent post graduate courses in Leadership/Management.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive, relevant, and recent experience working including wide clinical experience at Band 5 and 6 levels
- Experience of Oncology and Palliative care work.
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Experience of managing other people including conducting annual reviews
- Experience of use of IT applications
Desirable criteria
- Recent experience of leadership /management role
- Experience of leading on Projects/ service improvements
- Experience in dealing with Human Resource issues such as recruitment and retention, performance management and sickness.
- Experience of setting up a service
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Specialist level of knowledge and clinical reasoning skills to support expert clinical practice in cancer care and rehabilitation
- Knowledge of the roles of other professionals and the principles of partnership working with key stakeholders
- Knowledge of treatments and consequences of treatment related side effects on a person living with and beyond cancers
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent planning and organisational skills and ability to facilitate these skills in others.
- Excellent interpersonal skills for developing complex working relationships, expressing opinions constructively, seeking consensus and maintaining networks
- Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal, and ability to adjust style and content as appropriate.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to chair meetings and facilitate workshops effectively.
- Ability to adjust management style to suit the situation.
Other
Essential criteria
- UK Driving licence
Desirable criteria
- Access to own 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
- Nick Bergin
- Job title
- Active Together Therapy Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01756 702323
- Additional information
Sophie Duxbury
01756 702323.
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