Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term / secondment until 30/09/26)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-0589-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Manor Clinic
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pa pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/08/2025
Employer heading
Specialist Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
The Active Programmes team-provides rehabilitation to clients with long term conditions in the community.
Work as a team to deliver high quality, patient focused physiotherapy treatment programmes care for patients with respiratory and cardiac long-term condition across Sheffield community venues and within their own home.
Manage a caseload of patients with all types of Cardiac and Pulmonary related conditions using
specialist skills carrying out holistic assessments and implement a patient centred plan and evaluate the clinical interventions which address the patient goals with the agreed treatment protocols and best practice documents.
To promote healthy living in patients with long term conditions.
To supervise and train inexperienced physiotherapists, assistants and students working within the service.
Main duties of the job
To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management.
To frequently undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, with a complex presentation, requiring prolonged concentration to investigate and analyse the assessment to formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised program of care.
To use continuous assessment to evaluate treatment outcomes and adjust treatment plans, accordingly, appropriately referring to other agencies to meet patients’ needs and promote integration of services.
To seek clinical and professional advice and support from senior/specialist physiotherapists when required.
To undertake training to develop and demonstrate competency to practice as a specialist in cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation.
To accept clinical responsibility for patients and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time management.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its employees. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for the maximum period until 30/09/2026. Where there is potential, the secondment/fixed term contract may finish early, or in the first instance, the secondment/fixed term contract may be extended due to the internal/external secondment of the substantive post holder. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts and secondments in relation to the substantive post holder.
Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy from a CSP recognised training establishment
- Current HCPC registration
- Demonstrate commitment to Continuous Professional Development via personal development plans/file
- Evidence of Post-Graduate training relevant to cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation within the NHS.
- Trained in Basic Life Support
Desirable criteria
- Training from Higher Education Institution for graduate physiotherapy student supervision.
- Member of ACPICR/ ACPRC
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post-registration experience including cardiac and respiratory.
- Demonstrates clear understanding of NHS cardiac and respiratory pathways.
- Evidence of performance with NHS PDR process and evaluation.
- Experience of leading in service training sessions.
- Experience in clinical effectiveness including audit, service evaluation, or research
- Highly developed analytical clinical assessment, diagnostic and treatment skills relevant to clinical area.
- Ability to work independently as an autonomous practitioner.
- Proven experience of collaborative team working
- Knowledge of current legislation and government policy provision applicable to service area. Clear demonstration of relevant NHS strategy, e.g. cardiac and respiratory in the NHS Long Term Plan
Desirable criteria
- Experience of project and/or change management and quality improvement
- Experience in delivering cardiac or pulmonary rehabilitation
- Working experience in community setting (pre or post registration)
- Clinical educator training
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of cardiac and respiratory national standards.
- Some understanding of cardiac/ respiratory conditions, pathways and interventional procedures
- Skills for assessing, diagnosing and treating a range of patient conditions relating to clinical area
- Knowledge of Interdisciplinary team working within the NHS service
- Organisational skills to support the operational delivery of the service
- Demonstration of educational and presentation skills internally and externally to the team
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own and others’ performance
- Demonstration of IT skills
- Excellent time management skills with ability to manage a busy workload and priorities effectively
- The post holder must hold a clean UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work purposes
- Knowledge of the principles of NHS Clinical Governance and its application including of the principles of confidentiality and GDPR
Desirable criteria
- To have highly developed verbal and non-verbal communication skills of motivation, explanation and reassurance to agree and gain co-operation of patients and carers in their treatment programmes
- Clinical leadership skills to lead and develop clinical practice within own team and across wider services
Personal Qualites
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to work
- Effective team member
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Motivated and able to motivate others
- To have developed coping strategies to deal with the emotional nature of the work.
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
- Ursula Freeman
- Job title
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 307 8260
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