Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Bury Living Well Centre
- Hours
- Part time - 27.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 236-BCO-P422-25
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bury Living Well Centre
- Town
- Bury
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Physiotherapist
Band 5
Job overview
Join us as a Paediatric Physiotherapist within Bury Community and create a future you can be truly proud of, as part of the Northern Care Alliance.
You will be joining a team where evidence based practice, integrated working and service development are foremost in the provision of a quality service.
Innovation and future thinking is what drives our success so we are seeking someone with energy and enthusiasm to help create a therapy service that delivers the best possible solutions for our patients and their families.
Main duties of the job
Be responsible for your continuing professional development, actively participating in supervision, peer support and training and development programmes.
Manage a caseload including prioritisation and delegation of work to therapy assistants, performing patient assessments and making a clinical judgement of the patient’s needs. Develop, implement, evaluate and modify patient treatment programmes ensuring relevant pathways of care are followed in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team with onward referral to other agencies as appropriate.
Maintain accurate and comprehensive patient records complying with Trust policies and procedures, upholding statutory, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, and HCPC standards and codes of professional conduct.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Qualifications & Registration
Essential criteria
- Member of HCPC
- BSc/Diploma/MSc Physiotherapy
Desirable criteria
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Experience, Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Broad range of experience at undergraduate or postgraduate level including managing respiratory, neurological and musculoskeletal conditions
- Good written communication skills
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Evidence of CPD
- Understanding of professional standards and code of conduct
- Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.
- Demonstrates an awareness & understanding of supporting equality and valuing diversity within the role
- Shows evidence of clinical reasoning skills demonstrating knowledge of respiratory, neurological, musculoskeletal and discharge planning skills
Desirable criteria
- Undergraduate experience gained in both a hospital and a community NHS setting
- Full UK driving license with willingness to use own car for work purposes.
Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Able to identify the Trust Values and Behaviours
- Evidence of how individual demonstrates each value
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lyndsey Davenport
- Job title
- Therapy team leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07894708997
- Additional information
0161 2060657
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