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Job summary

Main area
Therapies
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
290-MIC-1692
Employer
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Mary's Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£54,320 - £60,981 inclusive
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/07/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust logo

Specialist Physiotherapist- Trauma & Orthopaedics

Band 7

 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 16,000 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

An exciting and challenging vacancy has arisen for a band 7 to work in the trauma and orthopaedic service at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust (ICHNT). This post is a rotational post cross site and includes elective orthopaedics, acute trauma, orthopaedics and plastics and surgical step down.

The ideal candidate will have previous experience working in the areas of major trauma, plastics and orthopaedics. They will support and manage a complex caseload using advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflection and analysis to support assessments, interventions and discharge plans using a client centred approach.

This post provides an exceptional opportunity for a dynamic and highly motivated physiotherapist to provide a comprehensive, client centred, quality orthopaedic physiotherapy service at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

You will be involved in developing and maintaining  the trauma orthopaedic and plastics service cross site. Close liaison with Major Trauma, Amputees, MSK and and the MDT is essential for this role.

This post will provide a fantastic opportunity for a physiotherapist who wishes to expand their clinical knowledge and skills in these specialist areas.  

We offer a comprehensive in service training and induction programme, internal and external courses are supported, and opportunities for post graduate studies available. 

Main duties of the job

  • This post holder has a clinical leadership role with specific responsibility for the development and provision of physiotherapy within the adult trauma and orthopaedic services, including training and development of staff.
  • The post holder shares responsibility for the clinical leadership and development of inpatients trauma and orthopaedics physiotherapy services.
  • They will be responsible for providing an advanced standard of care to trauma, orthopaedic and elective orthopaedic patients at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, which cover a multi-cultural and diverse population. 
  • The postholder will be expected to work at Charing Cross Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital. 
  • The post holder will work alongside two other band 7 orthopaedic physiotherapists.
  • The role provides clinical supervision and development of the orthopaedic physiotherapy team. 
  • Together with other senior staff, you will act as a resource of specialist advice to the rest of the physiotherapy service and other professions.

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.  Please talk to  us at interview. 

 

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, especially in the relevant clinical area
  • Clinical Educators course or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • Membership of the Professional Organisation
  • Membership of Professional special interest groups relevant to speciality
  • Relevant Postgraduate clinical qualification
  • Management skills or leadership training

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant recent clinical experience in relevant clinical area
  • Evidence of a broad base of clinical experience at Band 6 level or equivalent
  • Significant experience of working as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
  • Experience of multidisciplinary goal planning, development of care pathways and using outcome measures
  • Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for therapists, MDT members, support workers, students and apprentices
  • Experience of service development/change management
  • Experience in implementing evidence based practice in speciality
  • Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital (if required for job role)
Desirable criteria
  • Previous Band 7 or equivalent experience in relevant post
  • Leadership of a therapy team
  • Recent, relevant work in an NHS environment
  • Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient care
  • Clinical research experience
  • Experience of planning and managing service improvement activities

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Amanda Hutchinson
Job title
Clinical Lead Physiotherapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0203 311 1449
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