Physiotherapist/ Senior Physiotherapist

About the role

Post title:

Physiotherapist/ Senior Physiotherapist

Salary grade:

NNCBAND06 (NHS Band 5 equivalent)/ NNCBAND07 (NHS Band 6 equivalent)

Hours:

37 hours – Monday to Friday only (excluding Bank Holidays)

Location:

Thackley Green Specialist Care Centre

Reports to:

Clinical Lead

Service area:

Therapy Services- North Northamptonshire Council

1. To complete highly skilled and specialised Therapy assessments with the implementation of safe interventions which promote independence, resulting in safe and sustainable discharge back into the community. Supporting residents of North Northamptonshire to live well for longer.

1. To specialise in one or more Therapy discipline such as community, dementia, reablement, and manual handling (list not exhaustive)

1. To assist with the supervision of junior Therapy staff and the development of the Thackley Green Specialist Care Centre.

What will you be doing?

• To complete skilled and specialised Physiotherapy assessments to customers with a wide range of more complicated medical conditions, in accordance with all relevant legislation and eligibility criteria.
• To facilitate safe and appropriate interventions which enable customers to optimise their independence; this may include the use of complex specialist equipment or providing specialist advice. Reviews of these interventions may be required.
• To communicate effectively with customers; relatives; carers; legal guardians; or any other relevant professionals. This may require coaching customers and carers on aspects relevant to the Physiotherapy intervention.
• To ensure all communications are delivered in a timely and appropriate way using all the available media such as e-mail, telephone, written and face to face contact.
• To be responsible for ensuring that current practice is up to date and research new practices with a view to development of the current service. To ensure you are up to date with all relevant national legislation, professional standards of practice and organisational policies and procedures. To ensure that own CPD folder is also current.
• To supervise, performance manage, and support other staff members and colleagues. To give, receive and engage in an annual appraisal and a personal development plan which will improve your performance.
• To support the therapy service with the implementation of systems and processes that will support service delivery and staff within the team.
• Demonstrate awareness / understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs.
• Ensure that reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of yourself and other persons, and to comply with the policies and procedures relating to health and safety within the company.
• Carry out any other duties which fall within the broad spirit, scope and purpose of this job description and which are commensurate with the grade of the post.

About you

Are you passionate about Physiotherapy? Do you like helping people? Would you like to support people in our community?

We are looking to recruit a Physiotherapist (NHS Band 5 equivalent) or a Senior Physiotherapist (NHS Band 6 equivalent) to join our vibrant, driven and hardworking Therapy Team at Thackley Green Specialist Care Centre in Corby. Thackley Green is a 51 bedded rehab unit for over 65s that primarily facilitates hospital discharges. The team comprises of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Therapy Assistants and uses a strengths based approach throughout their therapy interventions in line with North Northants Council’s values and behaviours.

Our Benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)