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Highly Specialist Physiotherapist SDEC
The closing date is 15 June 2025
We are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced Physiotherapist with broad acute clinical expertise to cover maternity leave in our Multi-speciality Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) unit. Clinical areas include Geriatric Medicine, Frailty, Acute Medicine, Stroke, and Neuro.
Based mainly in SDEC, the role involves supporting daily in-reach into ED to facilitate SDEC pathways and the Therapy Lead Pathway (TLP). You will support service demands and work with therapy teams across ED, GAU, B3, and virtual wards, collaborating with MDT colleagues including OT, SLT, and therapy support workers. Working closely with senior leaders, you will ensure adherence to guidelines and evidence-based practice.
The role offers training opportunities, especially with Geriatric Medicine and Stroke teams, promoting clinical and professional autonomy. You will provide education to ED staff on the SDEC therapy service. NUH supports 7-day working; flexibility across weekdays and weekends, including on-call duties, is required, with training provided.
Key responsibilities include strong communication with MDTs, thorough assessments, risk-aware discharge planning, and involvement in audit and service evaluation. You will support a Band 4 support worker, developing leadership skills, and build relationships with community services to support complex discharges. You will also provide teaching across services, managing your own complex caseload and contributing to service improvement projects.
Main duties of the job
In addition to the summary below you need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert. You will need excellent communication skills to facilitate close working relationships with members of multiple speciality MDT and already established Therapy teams across multiple admission pathways.Alongside strong clinical skills across a wide range of specialities, the post holder will require a risk enabling attitude to discharge planning and a good knowledge of rapid comprehensive therapy assessments.You will require skills in audit, service evaluation and development, as well as organisational and time management skills and the ability to motivate yourself and others.You will assist in the management and support of a band 4 generic support worker alongside an Advanced Practitioner OT allowing you to develop your leadership, managerial and teaching skills.You will require a comprehensive understanding of community services and the ability to build good working relationships with Front Door IDT clinicians to work collaboratively to support complex discharge planning and appropriate follow up for patients care.You will be required to support a project management post to evaluate the effectiveness of the post and identify drivers for change, development of services using best practice guidelines, benchmarking with comparable services and service evaluation.
About us
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Job responsibilities
See job description and person specification for further information about this exciting opportunity
Person Specification
* HCPC registered physiotherapist
* oRecognised post-graduate training relevant to specialty preferably including MSc or completed modules
* oKnowledge of management processes to be able to provide 1st line management
* oKnowledge of current best practice within a clinical specialty
* oKnowledge of national and local standards and national guidelines
* oExperience in training/supervising students in own profession
* oAble to discuss treatment options and recommend best course of intervention to patients and carers using negotiating, persuasive, motivational and reassurance skills
* oAble to understand team dynamics and adapt approach to achieve the best outcome for patients
* oCommunicate complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working with MDT colleagues across health & social care sectors
* oAnalyse information from clinical assessments and make judgements about appropriate interventions for highly complex patients
* oAble to plan the delivery of a service for a specialist area where there is variable capacity and fluctuating demand
* oRisk assessment skills for the safe management and discharge of very complex patients
* Previous experience of working in an NHS SDEC unit
* oUndertake out of hours duties as required.
* oMaintain competence in respiratory care where appropriate
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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