Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapist
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-1090
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £42,471 - £50,364 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Physiotherapist Trauma & Orthopaedics
Band 6
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Are you looking to develop your skills within trauma? An opportunity has arisen within our Band 6 trauma and orthopaedic and vascular physiotherapy rotation. Substantive and fixed term opportunities may be available.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is an Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) and the largest trust in the country. Our mission is to provide world class healthcare for our patients, through excellence in research, education and training. It is also home to the North West London’s Major Trauma Centre.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our team. You will need to be able to manage a varying and complex caseload of in-patients and have experience of discharge planning. The post is rotational and involves 9 monthly rotations through a variety of areas including Major Trauma, elective Orthopaedics, trauma Orthopaedics and plastics, surgical rehabilitation, Vascular Surgery and amputee and prosthetic rehabilitation.
Main duties of the job
To provide high quality physiotherapy management to patients at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. To participate in a cross site rotational scheme, providing a high standard of physiotherapy to patients within acute rehabilitation. To perform advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions, to develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Degree (or equivalent) in Physiotherapy.
- • State registration with the Health Professions Council.
- • Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio.
- • Able to demonstrate specialist learning from previous physiotherapy rotations, formal post-graduate level learning and informal CPD (both general and specific to clinical fields of speciality).
- • Demonstrate learning of personal effectiveness and first line leadership from experience and from both formal and informal CPD activity.
Desirable criteria
- • Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- • Membership of CSP special interest groups relevant to speciality
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Recent substantial and sustained experience in relevant physiotherapy specialities and clinical settings
- • Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy and multidisciplinary team
- • To have participated in service development projects.
- • Experience of clinical education of staff, students or assistants.
- • Experience of supervision of students/ physiotherapy assistants, with development of basic supervision skills.
- • Demonstrate an understanding of the use of evidence based practice in speciality
- • Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital
- • To have undertaken audit and/or research, either within area of physiotherapy speciality or as part of the MDT
Desirable criteria
- • Previous experience in the NHS as a qualified physiotherapist
- • Previous senior physiotherapist experience in relevant post
- • Involvement with Clinical Governance issues and an understanding of their relation to patient care
- • Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Able to apply a range and depth of knowledge to this specialist area.
- • Able to use knowledge of a range of treatment approaches in the specialist area.
- • Able to make sound clinical decisions based on knowledge/ experience/circumstances and utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills.
- • Able to carry out manual therapy techniques and therapeutic handling, requiring skilful and strenuous physical effort during the working day.
- • Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate as appropriate and manage time effectively.
- • Ability to seek guidance and assistance when required and to be aware of personal limitations.
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of CPD relevant to role and specialist area.
- • Well-developed abilities for communication and consensus building skills, to speak to groups.
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
- Amanda Hutchinson
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Physiotherapist Trauma
- Email address
- [email protected]
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