Junior Physiotherapist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Junior Physiotherapist

The closing date is 10 November 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for applicants interested in working for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust at Band 5 level across a variety of rotations which includes: Respiratory, Orthopaedics, Care of the elderly, Front of House, Stroke and Musculo-skeletal outpatients. Experience will be gained within uni-professional, as well as multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary working. Staff may rotate between all Trust sites.

The physiotherapy service operates 24 hours per day across 7 days. This is currently supported by an early, day and late shift pattern along with night shift and on-call cover for respiratory physiotherapy led NIV service at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

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• To maintain a high standard of clinical record keeping in accordance with CSP guidelines and trust wide physiotherapy standards for documentation.
  
• To attend ward rounds or departmental meetings as appropriate.
  
• To attend relevant post graduate lectures and in-service training to consolidate undergraduate knowledge and increase skills appropriate to each rotation.
  
• To become competent in the provision of the emergency management of respiratory care.
  
• To participate in the emergency evening, extended working day, weekend and bank holiday rotas for respiratory care (including critical care and incorporating non-invasive ventilation).
  
• To participate in the seven-day working and Bank Holiday rota for inpatient services.
  

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job responsibilities

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• To assess and treat an independent physiotherapy caseload.
  
• To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the supervision of senior physiotherapy staff.
  
• The rotational element of the role consolidates under graduate skills and knowledge across arange of therapeutic modalities
  
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of acollective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadershipstyle which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promoteownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working andcollaboration within team / departments and across organisational boundaries.
  

Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration

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• BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent
  
• Registered Physiotherapist with the Health Professionals Council
  
• Evidence of continued professional development through self-directed learning and in-service training record
  
• Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
  

Experience and knowledge

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• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
  
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
  
• Pre-registration experience in core areas e.g. orthopaedics, neurology, respiratory
  

Other requirements

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• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
  

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

North Tyneside General Hospital (Trustwide)

£31,049 to £37,796 a yearpro rata per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern
Reference number

319-7564678RW

Job locations

North Tyneside General Hospital (Trustwide)