Job summary
- Main area
- Rehabilitation
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 164-7109547
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NRC / City / QMC
- Town
- Loughborough
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
NRC Physiotherapist - Highly Specialist Band 7
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you ready to join a team of pioneers ready to revolutionise the future of rehabilitation? Do you have a passion for transforming the lives of people who have experienced severe injury or illness? Here at the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) you will join an innovative, forward-thinking team with the collective objective of providing first class rehabilitation to our patients.
The role of the NRC case manager is integral to the patient journey and interdisciplinary team. This role drives the coordination of admission, management of the patient journey and rehabilitation programmes, and discharge from the NRC whilst maintaining a key liaison role for families and carers. The post holder will be experienced in senior healthcare leadership, coordination of patient pathways, aligning professional and patient expectations and driving timely clinical decision making. The post holders will promote the clinically excellent model of rehabilitation at the NRC ensuring strong and visible clinical leadership throughout the patient journey.
Why choose the NRC? You will be at the forefront of big change over the next few years. Your contribution will be vital but not only that, you will be supported to grow and learn through our many developmental programmes at the NRC as well as to engaging in research an innovation.
Main duties of the job
In addition to the above summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In addition to the below summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
Planning for the NRC is in its advanced stages, and the building will be ready in the summer of 2025. This role will be temporarily based at City Hospital until we move to the 70 bed NRC facility in summer 2025.
For more details of the centre please visit the NRC website www.nationalrehabilitationcentre.nhs.uk.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Hons (or equivalent) Physiotherapy
- HCPC registration.
- Requires specialist knowledge in rehabilitation.
- Recognised post-graduate training relevant to specialty (e.g. either obtained MSc or completed modules
- Evidence of maintaining professional competence through CPD. Clinical Educators Course – relevant course to train/supervise students in own profession
Desirable criteria
- First line management course e.g. BELS
- Full membership of professional body
- Member of specialist interest group
Experience
Essential criteria
- Member of specialist interest group Experience of management of performance and sickness of staff and participation in recruitment of new staff to maximize workforce potential.
- Experience in evaluation of evidence-based practice, audit, service development and benchmarking
- Experience in use of appropriate outcome measures
- Awareness legislation relating to health and safety, litigation and Data protection.
Desirable criteria
- Band 7 experience in patients with complex rehab and high acuity needs.
- Experience of managing tracheostomy patients and acute respiratory patients.
- Experience of quality improvement and/or research.
- Experience in using technology within clinical practice delivery
- Awareness of Good Clinical Practice Guidance (GCP) for research
- Teaching and facilitating courses
Communication And Relationship Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including explaining, negotiating, motivating and training
- Participation and leading /organising in-service training programmes
- Present to groups of up to 25.
- Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
- Demonstrate leadership ability.
- Able to communication complex condition related information to patients, relatives/carers and other clinical/social care staff where there may be barriers to understanding e.g. language barriers, speech, cognitive problems
- To feedback constructive criticism with tact and diplomacy in performance management of staff.
- Able to maintain accurate and comprehensive treatment records in line with the trust policy and departmental procedures
Desirable criteria
- Ability to reflect and learn from instances when communication and professional relationships have not gone well
Analytical & Judgement Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options.
- .Ability to solve problems within the team and make decisions where there are a range of options including clinical and strategic issues
- Assess and manage risk in own area.
- Evaluation of clinical and non-clinical interventions of self and the team
- Ability to collate information to identify trends and inform service development e.g. use of spreadsheets, computer generated workload stats.
- Ability to prepare annual review of specialty service.
Desirable criteria
- More advanced analytical skill using quantitative e.g. SPSS and qualitative e.g. thematic analysis and/or mixed methodologies
Planning and Organisation Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload of yourself and your team, including daily tasks and longer-term planning despite interruptions and changing priorities
- Effective delegation and time management skills.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to plan and contribute to the service delivery up to a year ahead and with the interdisciplinary team in own clinical area using available resources.
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of appropriate and relevant manual therapy skills to maximise rehabilitation and health outcomes
- Basic keyboard skills including the inputting of data.
- Ability to use a range of medical devices, some of which require dexterity and accuracy
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Undertake out of hours duties as required.
- Able to travel to required areas within and beyond the Trust
- Maintain competence in respiratory care where appropriate
Desirable criteria
- Openness and enthusiasm to work with new technologies to advance practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Dr Emma Salt
- Job title
- Consultant AHP
- Email address
- [email protected]
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