Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 359-BANK13548
- Employer
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospitals
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £28.80 per hour (including 12.5% WTD payment)
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 08/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Physiotherapist
Band 7
Job overview
Are you looking for a change of area or simply need more flexibility to manage your work/life balance? Then working on the bank may be just the answer.
If you are looking for flexible work that can fit around your other commitments and are dedicated to providing the very best care for patients then we would like to hear from you.
You will need to be a qualified Physiotherapist and have good communication skills, initiative, and be flexible. In return the role can give you:-
• A sense of pride and achievement
• The opportunity to get to know the people on your caseload
• Induction & mandatory training
• Opportunities to work across various departments and sites, gaining invaluable knowledge and experience
• Support from senior therapists including supervision & in-service training.
Main duties of the job
The service currently operates seven days a week on a planned shift pattern. This brings opportunities for flexible working arrangements within your contracted hours and enhanced rates of pay for weekend and bank holiday work.
The department offers a friendly, supportive working environment which actively supports Continuing Professional Development, through an established appraisal system, in-service training, and post graduate library facilities.
You will be required to commit to multi-disciplinary working, a proactive approach to personal and professional development and well-developed organisational skills.
You should be HCPC registered, have a minimum of 12 months post graduate experience as a Physiotherapist.
Working for our organisation
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust ranks among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and was named the second-best Trust to work for in the South East in the 2023 and 2024 NHS Staff Survey.
We are a large acute hospital trust in south-east England, providing general hospital services and specialist care to around 600,000 residents in West Kent and East Sussex. With a dedicated and diverse team of over 8,000 staff we are proud to offer specialised cancer services to over two million people through the Kent Oncology Centre.
Fordcombe Hospital, near Tunbridge Wells, became part of the Trust in October 2024. Specialising in planned care, it offers two operating theatres, 28 inpatient and day-care beds, diagnostic services (X-ray, MRI, CT, and endoscopy), and consultation/treatment rooms.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We’ve provided all the details you need about this role in the job description and person specification. Please take a moment to review the criteria in the person specification and share specific examples in your application that demonstrate how you meet these requirements. Please also check your application for errors/omissions prior to submission.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children).
All successful applicants will be required to complete our corporate trust induction once a start date had been agreed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma / degree/ MSc in Physiotherapy
- Health Professions Council Registration
Desirable criteria
- Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy or British Association of Occupational Therapists
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as part of a therapy team and/or multidisciplinary team.
- Contribution to clinical education of less experienced staff or students or assistants
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the working with stroke patients, general rehabilitation, Respiratory, Musculoskeletal Out Patients Orthopaedics.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills.
- Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate.
- Ability to cope working in a stressful environment and with emotional or challenging patients and carers
- Ability to Problem Solve.
- Competent IT skills.
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
- Claire Morris
- Job title
- In-patient Physiotherapy and UCTT Clinical Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01892 632902
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