Job overview

·        To perform advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical conditions, to provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.

·        To hold responsibility for own caseload and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type, working without direct supervision.  Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case conferences and reflective practice. Access to advice and support from a senior physiotherapist is available as required. 

·        To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.

·        To supervise, educate and assess the performance of physiotherapy students as appropriate. This would be to a graduate standard and involve working with universities to ensure the standard practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification.

Main duties of the job

The rotations are:

Medical/surgical: here you will gain specialist experience in respiratory management of a wide variety of patients, developing skills in ITU and critical care and you may have opportunity to treat paediatrics and respiratory out-patients.

Orthopaedics: Here you will assess and treat many orthopaedic conditions including patients who have been repatriated from the major trauma centre. You will also gain familiarity with a wide range of specialist orthotic equipment. There may also be opportunities to treat paediatric orthopaedics and manage patients on our discharge ready ward. 

Acute Medical Unit: Here you will develop your assessment and decision-making skills in our short stay admission unit and gain experience in cardiology and exposure to front door services.

Frailty team: Where you will gain experience working in our frailty unit and rapid access clinics, developing close links with the rapid response, falls team and other community services.

The Stroke unit: You will work alongside our specialist neuro team to assess and rehabilitate patients transferred from the local HSAU and develop specialist neuro knowledge and handling skills. We work closely with the ESD team and rehabilitation unit.

Working for our organisation

This is a great time to join The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we are currently in the process of redeveloping the hospital to provide a state-of-the-art hospital for the residents of Hillingdon, and beyond, which supports the very best in delivery of healthcare and will be fit for our future.

We provide acute and specialist services from two sites to a local population of 350,000. Our services include; accident and emergency services, inpatient care, specialist rehabilitation, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. Hillingdon is situated in North-West London close to Heathrow airport and is the second largest London borough.

Our vision is to be the best general hospital in the country. We are clear that our Vision can only be achieved by our staff, our most valuable asset. We are committed to making improvements for both our patients and our staff which we will deliver through living our CARES values: Communication, Attitude, Responsibility, Equity and Safety.

More information about our Vision and values and how we build theses into our recruitment process can be found on our website.

We value our staff and wherever possible we offer flexible hours, a full range of benefits, on-site nursery facilities and restaurant as well as a wide range of training and career development opportunities. We are proud to say that our staff survey results show that our staff look forward to coming to work here.