Physiotherapist

The successful applicant will independently manage a caseload in the intermediate care beds and into the community providing holistic, short term, goal orientated interventions. Patients will present with a wide range of complex problems and will allow you to develop a highly specialist knowledge of many medical conditions and long term conditions and the application of the physiotherapy process with these patients.

Opportunities to:

Progress skills in holistic assessment and providing comprehensive rehabilitation plans

Develop skills around discharge planning and equipment provision

To support assistant staff and to help with their development

Participate in service development, peer support and in-service training

Work within a dynamic Multi-Disciplinary Team

The successful applicant would work Monday to Friday in the Intermediate Care Bed service. On occasions the successful applicant may also be required to work into the crisis response service, this is a six day service.

Do you have the enthusiasm and motivation to take on a new challenge within our forward

thinking trust?

Are you an excellent team worker?

Do you strive or aspire to provide seamless holistic patient centred care within a progressive

Multi-Disciplinary Team?

We are looking for a dynamic individual to join the Intermediate CareTherapy Team at Chester Le

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust are one of the largest integrated organisations in

the country, providing hospital and community services to a population of over 650,000. We are an

ambitious and innovative organisation with a talented workforce of over 7,000 colleagues. Our Vision is

to be Right First Time, Every Time and our mission is to provide safe, compassionate and joined-up, If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented

From April 1 2024 we are unable to offer sponsorship for healthcare roles that do not meet the minimum salary £23,200, to apply you must have Right to Work in the United Kingdom. If you are in the UK on a VISA please ensure you have no restrictions that would prevent you from taking this post