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Main area
Physiotherapist
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 25 hours per week (This post will involve contribution to weekend and on call working.)
Job ref
151-NM73
Employer
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wexham Park Hospital
Town
Slough
Salary
£39,205 - £47,084 per annum including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/06/2025 23:59

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Senior Physiotherapist for Surgery & Critical Care

Band 6

Job overview

Are you dynamic? Are you passionate about working in Critical Care & Surgery?  Are you looking to work in a committed, driven team, striving to develop evidence-based practice & embed patient-focused care? If so, we are looking for you to join our expanding Surgical & Critical Care team right now!

Following recent successful business cases we are looking to recruit additional staff into the Critical Care and Surgery Team at Wexham Park Hospital.  We are very excited to have the opportunity to further expand the Critical care and Surgical physiotherapy team.

This post offers the exciting prospect of being a core member of the team working in Critical Care & Surgery. This will include inpatient work in Critical Care, Surgical Acute Dependency Unit, General Surgery, plastics & ENT. There will also be opportunities to contribute & collaborate with our award-winning surgical prehabilitation service & our innovative Critical Care Rehabilitation & Follow-up Service.

You will be supported & developed by both your Band 7 Team Leader & our cross-site APP for Critical Care. We are committed to ensuring we deliver high quality, individualised care to patients on critical care & the surgical wards in line with best practice, as well as developing our staff to achieve your career aspirations.

Main duties of the job

This post holder will work within the team providing surgical & critical care physiotherapy services at Wexham Park Hospital.

They will provide therapeutic clinical expertise & quality advice to patients on critical care & surgery as well as support to the multi-disciplinary team.  Clinical supervision, appraisal and teaching of band 5's & students will be core components of this role.

They will demonstrate excellent communication and collaborative working, along with other clinical specialists across the Trust, in order to provide a high quality, efficient service.

With support & direction from their Team Leader & APP they will participate in service development & audit as well as education to both physiotherapists & the MDT. 

 

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. 

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Attached you will find the Job Description and Person Specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role.

We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria
  • HCPC Registration
  • Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy.
  • Demonstrate up to date knowledge of best clinical practice in relevant speciality.
  • Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice.
  • Evidence of recent study in relevant clinical area.
  • Demonstrate understanding & involvement of Clinical Governance and risk assessment
  • Basic knowledge of health legislation.
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of some managerial training.
  • Member of relevant clinical interest group.
  • Clinical educators training

SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES FOR ROLE

Essential criteria
  • Interpersonal skills including clear, concise and effective verbal and written reports
  • Organisational skills
  • Able to think logically and problem solve.
  • Analytical skills demonstrated both clinically and managerially
  • Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.

PROFESSIONAL/ SPECIALIST/ FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria
  • Completion of band 5 rotations. This includes experience in the relevant clinical areas, General Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgical/ICU, Elderly Care, Neuro, Outpatients.
  • Training and supervision to support all physiotherapy staff and students
  • Multidisciplinary working.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in critical care/surgery at band 6 level
  • Relevant training courses
  • Student supervision
  • Leading/active participation in audit/service development project

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
Samantha Laurencine
Job title
Principal physiotherapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
03006153852
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