Job summary
- Main area
- Therapies
- Grade
- AFC Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-LG-EMF19564-B6
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £40,617 - £48,778 per annum pro rata including High Cost Area Supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Physiotherapist - Oncology
AFC Band 6
Job overview
We have a fantastic opportunity for you if you are looking to broaden your existing clinical knowledge within Oncology. NHS experience including rotations within medicine, neurology and musculoskeletal is essential.
We pride ourselves in supporting staff with good team and department structures and morale. We run specialist clinical training, and non-clinical training. We have students on placement in specialties across the department. We also have superb working relationships with our Consultants and Multidisciplinary Teams across both inpatients and outpatients.
Main duties of the job
The team provides a 7 day service across inpatient Oncology.
You will spend your time based on the Oncology wards, so will need skills to assess and treat a broad caseload.
Our clinical staff are involved in Trust level clinical and non-clinical projects and have opportunities to drive service development, audit and evidence based practice
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide physiotherapy to relevant patients within oncology, in a range of settings including inpatients, outpatients and patient homes.
To assess and treat patient’s in oncology. To support the team in the organisation and provision of an efficient, high quality and co-ordinated physiotherapy service for patients in each area. To undertake a defined clinical caseload. To ensure that patient and service standards and priorities are met. To provide clinical supervision to assigned junior physiotherapists, technical instructors, physiotherapy assistants and students.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC registration
- BSc Physiotherapy
Desirable criteria
- Member of CSP
- Member of Specific interest group
- Post graduate qualifications in related area i.e. frailty
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Previous Acute NHS experience at band 5 level
- Achieved core skills in all core Junior rotations
- Evidence to support knowledge base in specialist area
- Previous acute NHS experience
Desirable criteria
- Previous Senior Experience in Specialty Area
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
- Jessica Williams
- Job title
- Inpatient Superintendent Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01483 464819
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