Employer University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Florence Nightingale Community Hospital Town Derby Salary £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata pa Salary period Yearly Closing 19/08/2025 23:59 Interview date 02/09/2025
Highly Specialist Physiotherapist Parkinson's Disease Service
Band 7
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
With over 13,000 members of staff you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.
As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.
The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it’s important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.
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To further support the pledges in the Armed Forces Covenant and to make a positive contribution to support ex-armed forces personnel (veterans) make the transition to civilian life, the Trust has introduced a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for veterans who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification, to help them overcome barriers to find civilian employment. The scheme will operate for all external recruitment.
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Here’s more about the role and what we’re looking for;
Job overview
Derby Parkinson's team is an accredited Parkinson's Foundation Centre of Excellence providing holistic, integrated, multidisciplinary care for people with Parkinson's.
Due to retirement of the previous postholder, we are seeking a Band 7 Specialist Physiotherapist to lead the Physiotherapy team and to work as an integral part of this established and successful multidisciplinary service.
The Parkinson's team, based at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital, within the Specialist Rehabilitation department, includes consultants, specialist nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech & language therapists, clinical neuropsychologists, dietitian and technical instructors.
The team are forward thinking, and deliver evidence-based interventions to enable people to manage their condition, believing that continuous development is essential to maintaining our standards.
In addition to clinical work, the team are actively engaged in research, for both medical and therapy interventions and run national courses in multidisciplinary management of Parkinson's and Atypical Parkinson's.
Main duties of the job
* To be part of the Parkinson's disease multi disciplinary team within the Trust, working flexibly to provide a Physiotherapy service to patients with Parkinson's disease
* To collaborate with all members of the Parkinson’s MDT in order to meet National and Trust organisational targets and standards
* To provide highly specialist Physiotherapy assessment and rehabilitation for patients with Parkinson’s disease
* To provide highly specialist advice and support to other professionals regarding the management of Parkinson’s patients throughout the Trust and Derbyshire/ East Staffordshire Community
* To be an integral part of the senior clinical team within the speciality and to represent Specialist Rehabilitation at management level concerning issues affecting the service
* To take a lead role in the operational management of the Physiotherapy team within this speciality
* To provide supervision and teaching for Physiotherapists, students
and assistants working within the speciality
* To ensure that the Derby Parkinson's service is engaged in relevant research projects/ clinical trials and implement and evaluate new and innovative clinically effective treatment techniques in order to maintain Derby as a centre of excellence for Parkinson's Disease
* To lead and participate in the running of external courses for multidisciplinary professionals involved in the assessment and management of patients with Parkinson's Disease
Closing date: 19 August 2025
Interview date: 2 September 2025
Working for our organisation
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
* Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
* On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
* Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
* We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
* We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
* An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
* Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
* Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
* We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
* We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
* UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and Person Specification. To apply please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB – this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account.
Your application (for shortlisting purposes) is assessed based on the Person Specification in the job advert (below).
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent diploma in Physiotherapy
* HCPC Registered
* Evidence of recent CPD related to role
* Accredited Clinical Educator
* Leadership training
* IT Qualification
* Recruitment and selection training
Experience and Knowledge
* Experience working as part of an MDT
* Experience of team management
* Experience of supervision and appraisal systems
* Experience of managing poor performance
* Specialist knowledge of PD and other related disorders
* Significant post graduate experience within PD/ other neurology in a variety of settings at a senior level
* Experience of teaching relatives, carers and other professionals
* Experience of being involved in a research project
Skills and Ability
* Able to manage own time and delegate effectively
* Competent keyboard and IT skills
* Able to move and handle patients safely
* Ability to initiate and lead clinical audit and implement in to practice
* Able to demonstrate advanced communication skills
Our Trust aims to provide the highest quality care to patients within Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire and we want the very best people to work with us.
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
If we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
At UHDB, we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.
For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/ reduced hours/ compressed hours/ flexible start and finish times/ fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/ term time hours/ hybrid working – working partly in the trust/partly at home.
Why don’t you talk to us at interview about the flexibility you would like to explore and what it means to you, and we will discuss what’s possible for the job and team, and the opportunities we might be able to create together.
We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to work with you to look at all the available options.
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Name Ruth Stewart Job title Operational Lead Email address ruth.stewart1@nhs.net Telephone number 07751274158 Additional information
For further information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Ruth Stewart, Operational Lead, Specialist Rehabilitation on 07469 037417 or e-mail ruth.stewart1@nhs.net .
Alternatively please contact Clare Johnson, Specialist Occupational Therapist, Parkinson's service on 01332 258255 or e-mail clare.johnson9@nhs.net
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