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Form of workJob Title: Senior Physiotherapist
Grade:Band 6
Trust: Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Radcliffe primary care centre, church street, M26 2SP
Ward/Dept: Bury falls and fracture liaison team
Hours: Weekdays 8am to 4pm Rota
Pay rate: £19.10-£30.56 (uplifts for weekends and Bank Holidays)
End Date: 31.05.2024
Northern Carer Alliance NHS Foundation Trust are currently seeking organised and motivated candidates to fulfil physiotherapy opportunities within the Falls and Fracture Liaison Team under a long-term placement contract.
Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic individual with excellent communication skills looking to embark on a new opportunity within the NHS? If so, we would like to hear from you today!
The Post holder will ideally have previous NHS experience, previous experience across a broad rang of junior rotations, assessment and treatment knowledge is essential. They must be able to demonstrate initiative and prioritise a complex workload whilst working both as a autonomous and practitioner and as part of a team.
High levels of both written and oral communication are essential to this post with the ability to deliver or discuss difficult diagnosis and prognosis with tact, empathy, managing distressed or aggressive patients or carers/Relatives. The post holder must be able to communicate accurate and sensitive information to patients, carers and relatives as well as within their own team and colleagues.
Main Duties of the Job:
- Perform specialist assessment and treatment of patients and determine a clinical diagnosis, develop, implement, evaluate, and modify individualised treatment programmes.
- Responsible for your own clinical caseload in the defined clinical area of Falls and Fracture Prevention.
- Use a range of manual physiotherapy skills when implementing a programme of care, demonstrating highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory sensory skills for assessment and manual treatment of patients
The Successful Candidate Will Have:
- HCPC registration
- BSc/equivalent physiotherapy qualification
- Previous NHS experience
- Practices in accordance with the professional, ethical, and legal codes of the Health & Care Professions Council
- (HCPC), and Trust and NHS protocols and guidelines
About the Trust:
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. We are now one of the largest NHS providers in the country, working together as a group since 2016 and formally established on 1 October 2021.
Patients and service users may receive a range of integrated health and social care services at their home or in their community or be treated and cared for in one of our four hospitals - Salford Royal Hospital, The Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Infirmary or Fairfield General Hospital in Bury. Our aim is to deliver consistently high standards of care to them all.
Who are NHS Professionals?
If a hospital cannot supply staff on a ward or area, due to increased demand, sickness, or common staff shortages, they need to call upon Bank staff. NHS Professionals works with Trusts to develop a 'Bank’ of highly skilled workers who want to work flexibly with the NHS.
Why NHS Professionals?
We value your skills, dedication, and commitment in supporting your local Trust and the NHS. We believe together we continue to deliver world-class healthcare service to our patients.
In return for your hard work commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits: -
- Competitive Pay Rates - work this week, get paid next week!
- First choice of placements at over 50 NHS Trusts in England
- Dedicated consultants
- Flexible working options
- Free DBS and free training
- Build holiday allowance
- Support when you need it - 24/7 365 days
- Stakeholder pension scheme
