Job overview

The Medical Therapies team are looking for an enthusiastic Advanced Therapist to work in a senior decision making and leadership role within the Therapies Urgent Care Team based at the Royal Stoke Hospital. 

The post offers the opportunity to work in one of the busiest A&E services in the UK within an exciting University Hospital environment with a mixed caseload of patients across a number of areas including A&E Front of House, the Clinical Decision Unit, Acute Medical Unit, Resus, Short Stay Ward, Frail Elderly Assessment Unit and ambulatory care.  The team consist of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and dual trained Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Technical Instructors.  The successful candidate will have substantial previous NHS experience and experience of working within Medicine and the Urgent Care setting with experience of treating patients including the acute and chronic respiratory, multi pathology / complex patients, neurological, cognitively and perceptually impaired.

Main duties of the job

• To work as a specialised practitioner managing the clinical delivery of care in a specialised area.
• To lead the clinical team within your area and organise staff and resources to meet service standards and demands.
• To be responsible for the provision of specialist training to therapy staff and other members of the MDT.
• Use analytical and problem solving skills to interpret, analyse and evaluate complex information from a variety of sources
• The University Hospital of the North Midlands is based across 2 hospital sites,   the Royal Stoke and the County Hospital.  The Therapy department is made up of two divisional based teams within multiple clinical areas and has excellent links with Keele University.  The successful candidate will be involved in student education as well as staff in-service training.  Supervision will be provided by Principal Therapists and continuous development is supported through appraisal, supervision, internal training and external learning. 

Working for our organisation

The UHNM NHS Trust covers Royal Stoke Hospital in Stoke on Trent and County Hospital in Stafford. Royal Stoke a large acute teaching hospital, with a Turnover of £360 million. Located in Stoke on Trent and Stafford, UHNM is close to the M6, within commuting distance of culturally diverse major conurbations, such as Manchester and Birmingham and surrounded by rural pleasures, including the Peak District National Park.

Each year Royal Stoke cares for over 600,000 people providing emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care. It is a leading teaching hospital in partnership with Keele University and has a patient-centred clinical research facility providing state-of-the-art facilities.

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff is really important to us. We offer a range of options for our staff to help maintain a good work-life balance including full time, part time hours and bank hours. We are also committed to offering flexible working wherever we can and where relevant to the role and the service, agile working. You can select your preferences upon application.