Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, proactive and self-motivated physiotherapist, with excellent caseload management and communication skills to work within the Short Term Support Service Team within the Alnwick locality.
This role aims to enable patients with a wide variety of conditions to be as independent as possible within their own environment by providing specialist physiotherapy assessment and interventions. The team comprises registered Physiotherapists, registered Occupational Therapists, Technical Instructors and Occupational Therapy Assistants. If you would like to discuss the post further, we welcome visits from interested candidates.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
The successful candidate will need to be flexible in their approach to the role. We follow an integrated therapeutic approach to client intervention and are looking to recruit people with a broad experience within MSK, falls, neurological conditions and general elderly frail conditions/multiple comorbidities.
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Sep 2025.
Responsibilities
* Triage and prioritise new referrals received into the service
* Responsibility for a designated varied caseload of patients: to organise this effectively and efficiently with regards to clinical priorities and use of time
* To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations using clinical reasoning skills
* Support patients with individualised goal setting, education and care plans to work towards fulfilling their potential in a goal orientated way. Working in partnership with patients, relatives, reablement staff, and externally with other agencies
* Completing all required training and ensuring own continued professional development
* To provide line management, supervision, support, guidance and training to Technical Instructors and students
Qualifications and experience
Experience as a physiotherapist with a broad background in MSK, falls, neurological conditions and general elderly frail conditions with multiple co morbidities. Ability to work flexibly and in an integrated therapeutic approach to client intervention.
Benefits
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides a number of staff benefits including personal car lease scheme, discounted gym membership & attractive pension scheme.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.
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