Job summary
We are delighted to announce an exciting opportunity for a Senior/Specialist Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist to join our dedicated team on Health care of older people at King's Mill Hospital. Our team is committed to delivering exceptional patient experience through assessment, signposting and rehabilitation, from acute through to rehab and recovery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Play a pivotal, lead role on a mixed profession team, both clinically and operationally.
• Drive innovation and influence change within a dynamic healthcare environment.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to develop into a Band 7 role with comprehensive training and support.
• Be part of a dynamic and innovative team.
• Work in a superb facility with a supportive and nurturing environment.

If you are passionate about Elderly Care services and have the experience and leadership skills we are looking for, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements
Essential

• A highly developed knowledge and ability to meet the standards and expected criteria for this therapy service
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Leadership skills
• Supervisory skills
• Able to work within a team independently
• Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others
• Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
• Effective communication skills - oral and written
• Ability to keep accurate and legible patient records
• Able to provide and receive complex and/or sensitive information
• Remain updated with professional practice and new research
• Knowledge of clinical governance and its application to therapy

Qualifications
Essential

• Degree in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy BSc(Hons) or Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
• HCPC registration

Further Training
Essential

• Attendance of post-graduate courses relevant to this post
• Evidence of proactive CPD
• Has completed a student supervisor's course

Desirable

• Evidence of postgraduate respiratory course work

Experience
Essential

• Significant post graduate clinical experience including recent experience at band 6 level on acute wards
• Experience of student supervision

Contractual Requirements
Essential

• Must be extremely flexible and able to do 7 day working
• If team leader is a physiotherapist - participate in emergency on-call rota

Desirable

• Car driver

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.