Band 7 Community Adult Physiotherapy - Manchester, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

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Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, forward thinking, highly motivated, dynamic, experienced, and dedicated Physiotherapist to join our established innovative, Community-based Adult Physiotherapy Team in Bury.

You will be joining a well-established and supportive team, where person-centred care is at the forefront of everything that we do.

As a Band 7 Physiotherapist working for The Community Adult Physiotherapy Team, you'll play a vital role in our team of experienced Physiotherapists; managing a complex caseload of adult patients who have a physical disability in the community.

The team receive referrals from a range of pathways including Orthopaedics, Neurology, Palliative Care, MSK, Falls, and Learning disabilities.

You will be responsible for delivering high-quality clinical care and clinical leadership to the Physiotherapist and Physiotherapy assistants in the team, ensuring all work is needs led, evidence based and in line with current legislation.

If you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of adults in the community and want to contribute to an organisation which is continuously striving to improve then we would love to hear from you.

Main Tasks & Overview of Responsibilities

To work autonomously within the Trust policy and professional practice and maintain accurate and comprehensive up to date records.

To perform specialist assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who will have complex and/or acute or chronic conditions.

To determine a clinical diagnosis, develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualised treatment programmes, ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.

To take a major role in assisting the O&P Lead in the clinical governance action plans and in the planning, co-ordinating, delivery and evaluation of the Physiotherapy services within the speciality.

To comply with statutory requirements for Physiotherapy, within the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and HCPC standards and codes of professional conduct.

To educate and train physiotherapists and other qualified and non-qualified healthcare staff up to and including medical staff.

Job Title:
Physiotherapy Team Leader

Band: 7

Reports to:
Operational and Professional Physiotherapy lead

Responsible to:
Operational and Professional Physiotherapy lead

Base/Department:
Physiotherapy

To deputise for the O&P lead when required.
Supervision through peer support and is largely self driven.
To work as a lone practitioner in a community setting without the support of physiotherapy colleagues.

The Northern Care Alliance is an NHS Group formed by bringing together two NHS Trusts, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

As an NHS Group, we can deliver a more co-ordinated way of providing safe and sustainable local health services, consistent with the concepts of standardisation of best practice across our hospitals and community services in Greater Manchester.

Our four Care Organisations (Salford, Oldham, North Manchester, Bury & Rochdale) provide services to over one million people in Greater Manchester and the North West.

We employ 17,500 staff, have a combined operating budget of £1.3bn and provide 2,000 beds.

The Alliance provides a range of healthcare services including five hospitals and associated community services - Salford Royal, The Royal Oldham Hospital, Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, Rochdale Infirmary and North Manchester General Hospital.

Using our mantra of 'Saving lives, Improving lives', the aim is for our Care Organisations to work closely with the communities they serve to deliver safe, high quality and reliable care, which are trusted, connected and pioneering.

We are creating an environment each individual will be inspired and empowered by to be the best they can be.

Thanks to our size and geographical reach, we are able to offer an abundance of career opportunities, internal mobility and development opportunities that cannot be met elsewhere.

This is a really exciting time to join our new team.