198903 - Staff Bank Specialist Physiotherapist

The Role

The successful candidate will take a lead role for a designated clinical area with a caseload that incorporates patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge.

The ideal candidate will have responsibility for the supervision, education and development of more junior staff, physiotherapy support workers and students within the speciality.

The appointed individual will also be required to provide a specialised resource to other healthcare staff, patients and carers, and will also have an active involvement in Clinical Governance and Clinical Effectiveness and Research.

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring

• Registered Physiotherapist with valid HCPC registration.
• Available to work immediately.
• Educated to/working towards/operating at degree level.
• Post graduate expertise within speciality/area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality/area of practice.
• Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies and procedures associated with the speciality/area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within speciality/area of practice.
• Leadership skills to enable the day to day management of service delivery.
• Further education/evidence of continuous professional development in area of speciality including study days/courses/postgraduate qualification.
• The post holder will possess excellent team-working/leadership skills and have the ability to motivate others and work using own initiative.
• Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Effective time management skills.
• Working knowledge of basic information technology.
• Have working VISA in place if appropriate.
• NHS experience desirable but not essential.

Contract type

Staffbank

Zero hours

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in NHS Lanarkshire Wide

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Ruth Currie, Head of Physiotherapy and Professional Lead on Ruth.Currie@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Staffbank Recruitment on

lanarkshirestaffbankapplications@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

(Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• Occupational health services
• Employee counselling services
• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service

A minimum of 8 days of public holidays

Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)

Paid sick leave increasing with length of service

Occupational health services

Employee counselling services

Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.