Employer University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Stoke Town Stoke on Trent Salary £47,810 - £54,710 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 05/08/2025 23:59
Advanced Therapist (PT/OT) - Urgent Care
Band 7
Job overview
The Medical Therapies team are looking for an enthusiastic Advanced Therapist to work in a senior decision making and leadership role within the Therapies Urgent Care Team based at the Royal Stoke Hospital.
The post offers the opportunity to work in one of the busiest A&E services in the UK within an exciting University Hospital environment with a mixed caseload of patients across a number of areas including A&E Front of House, the Clinical Decision Unit, Acute Medical Unit, Resus, Short Stay Ward, Frail Elderly Assessment Unit and ambulatory care. The team consist of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and dual trained Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Technical Instructors. The successful candidate will have substantial previous NHS experience and experience of working within Medicine and the Urgent Care setting with experience of treating patients including the acute and chronic respiratory, multi pathology / complex patients, neurological, cognitively and perceptually impaired.
Main duties of the job
* To work as a specialised practitioner managing the clinical delivery of care in a specialised area.
* To lead the clinical team within your area and organise staff and resources to meet service standards and demands.
* To be responsible for the provision of specialist training to therapy staff and other members of the MDT.
* Use analytical and problem solving skills to interpret, analyse and evaluate complex information from a variety of sources
* The University Hospital of the North Midlands is based across 2 hospital sites, the Royal Stoke and the County Hospital. The Therapy department is made up of two divisional based teams within multiple clinical areas and has excellent links with Keele University. The successful candidate will be involved in student education as well as staff in-service training. Supervision will be provided by Principal Therapists and continuous development is supported through appraisal, supervision, internal training and external learning.
Working for our organisation
The UHNM NHS Trust covers Royal Stoke Hospital in Stoke on Trent and County Hospital in Stafford. Royal Stoke a large acute teaching hospital, with a Turnover of £360 million. Located in Stoke on Trent and Stafford, UHNM is close to the M6, within commuting distance of culturally diverse major conurbations, such as Manchester and Birmingham and surrounded by rural pleasures, including the Peak District National Park.
Each year Royal Stoke cares for over 600,000 people providing emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care. It is a leading teaching hospital in partnership with Keele University and has a patient-centred clinical research facility providing state-of-the-art facilities.
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff is really important to us. We offer a range of options for our staff to help maintain a good work-life balance including full time, part time hours and bank hours. We are also committed to offering flexible working wherever we can and where relevant to the role and the service, agile working. You can select your preferences upon application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on working for the Trust, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
For more details on the post, please contact Clare Johnson (see contact details)
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
* Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy
* Registered with HCPC
* Portfolio of personal & professional development
* Post holder committed to working at master's level e.g. attended courses accredited at master's/post graduate level
* Working towards a higher qualification qualification relevant to speciality e.g. Master's degree
Experience
* Experience of working as a senior physiotherapist/Occupational Therapist within the speciality area
* Experience of teaching students, staff & other proessional groups
* Post graduate (NHS) experience with considerable experience in speciality area
* Experience of undertaking out of hours working
* Experience gained within an acute setting
Skills, ability & knowledge
* Proven leadership and management skills
* Trained Clinical Educator
* Evidence of project work
Personal Qualities
* Ability to travel to and work across multiple sites
Important information about your application
* All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
* References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
* We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
* Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
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