Senior Physiotherapist (Band 6)

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. Working within our community team benefits from flexible and agile working opportunities, supportive annual development, health and well-being support whilst using your clinical decision making to developpersonalised care.

An innovative role has arisen for a senior community Physiotherapist to join our established integrated intermediate care team. The team provide an urgent community response service to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and a virtual ward to support patients to remain at home wherever possible and facilitate safe hospital discharge.

We offer a robust induction programme, on the job training, annual appraisal, 1:1 supervision and opportunities for development. We encourage applicants to contact us if they are interested in thispost so you can see first-hand how the team functions and learn about this fantastic opportunity.

This is a 24 hour a day 7 days a week service operating 365 days a year therefore the post holder will be expected to work shift patterns to cover the service including Early, Lates or Long Days and have access to own transport.

Previous Applicants need not re-apply

30hrs per week, maternity leave for 12 months

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Provide a personalised intermediate care service to adults in their own home within Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven areas. This also includes providing therapy support to patients in Castleberg Hospital.
• Perform Physiotherapy assessment of patients with a diverse range of presentations and complicated physical and psychological conditions, to provide a diagnosis, develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme in conjunction with the rest of the team.
• Provide a key role in working in partnership with medical colleagues, multidisciplinary teams (MDT) and carers to set realistic objectives and to help to facilitate goal and discharge planning to enable safe discharge from our service.
• Work to support the team in its delivery of interventions, to skill share with other professionals to support the full breadth of the service (competency training is offered to support this skill sharing method of delivering intervention).

In pursuing these duties, the post holder will ensure compliance with the NHS Constitution and be familiar with the NHS England Guidance 'Understanding the new NHS'.

About us

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.

We want to attract staff who embrace our behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients - we want to make these part of our DNA.

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.

Trust values:

• Committed to Quality of Care
• Compassion
• Working together for patients
• Improving Lives
• Everyone Counts
• Respect and Dignity

Employer details

Employer name

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Airedale General Hospital

Keighley

BD206TD

Employer's website

https://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Airedale General Hospital

Keighley

BD206TD

Employer's website

https://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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