Advanced Physiotherapist / Occupational Therapist

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Band 7 Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist to join the Post-Critical Care Rehabilitation Team. The post offers the opportunity to work alongside our established Critical Care therapy team and other specialised teams to support with rehabilitation onto the medical and surgical wards within the University Hospitals of North Midlands based at the Royal Stoke Hospital.
This is a really exciting opportunity for someone to lead a service within the patient journey and to enhance patient care and experience. You will lead a team with a Band 5 Therapist and a Band 4 Therapy Technician to support complex patients transferring from critical care to the ward environment.
Our critical care unit has 36 beds including surgical, medical, neurosurgical and trauma and lends itself naturally to innovative ways of working. It is also supported by an experienced therapy and multidisciplinary team and will give the post holder an excellent opportunity to consolidate their leadership and management skills as well as building clinical expertise that will enhance and broaden rehabilitation skills., The Multidisciplinary team is part of the West Midlands Adult Critical Care Network which provides opportunity to network nationally through national events and conferences and be instrumental in leading on new ways of working and implementing new initiatives.
If you are interested in working with a group of patients who present with all the challenges of stepping down from Critical Care to the ward environment; if you are interested in leading the development of a new therapy team clinically and managerially; if you are interested in being at the forefront of transformational change then this post is for you.
Supervision will be provided by Principal Therapists and continuous development is supported through appraisal, internal training and external learning., 1. All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
2. References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
3. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
4. Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
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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., At UHNM we are fortunate to receive a high volume of applications for many of our roles, on this occasion we would reserve the right to close any advert early, therefore please apply without delay!

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.