Senior Physiotherapist-Peterborough

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Physiotherapist to join North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust. With a full time post available that offers the opportunity to develop your skills within our Orthopaedic Team. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and professional individual to join our friendly and supportive Therapy Service (Occupational Therapy & Physiotherapy).

The Team are based across 2 sites; elective surgery at Hinchingbrooke Hospital and Trauma Orthopaedics at Peterborough City Hospital. This post will involve working across the sites, rotating between trauma and elective services to deliver a high quality service and supporting staff.

Modern healthcare delivery requires a 7 day service and therefore weekend working is required.

Successful candidate needs to be fully qualified Physiotherapist with experience in an Acute Hospital environment and HCPC registered, ideally with previous experience working with the management of orthopaedic patients. You should be forward thinking, dynamic and have the desire to develop and improve patient care.

Main duties of the job

• To enable Physiotherapy to provide Therapy Skills within the inpatient service
• To ensure safe, efficient and effective delivery of patient focussed care in line with identified evidence based practice, local and national standards
• To work collaboratively within Multidisciplinary and Multi-agency Teams
• To participate in delegated projects for service development with the team
• To act autonomously in the assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have a complex presentation
• To demonstrate a flexible approach to working in support of the whole in patient/out patient team
• To undertake weekend working as required within service developments
• To be available to provide Clinical Supervision
• This role entails 80% Clinical Contact and 20% Operational Management as appropriate within team requirements
• To guide Band 5 and support staff in the management and delivery of therapeutic care plans

About us

Our teams work hard to be flexible and promote a health work/home life balance and so, agile working options are automatically considered for all roles within the Trust.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates from our local communities.

Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay and here are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
• Relocation allowance in line with the Trust policy
• Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
• Free staff car parking on all our hospital sites during this financial year
• In-house Physiotherapy Services
• Career development and training opportunities
• Emotional Wellbeing Service covering a range of online support, access to mobile apps and 24/7 counselling services
• Subsidised meals at our hospital restaurants
• Access to exclusive discounts, cashback and vouchers via NHS Discounts and Blue Light Card

If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information on this post please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached to the role.

Job description
Job responsibilities

For more information on this post please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached to the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
• HCPC Registered

Desirable

• CSP member

Experience

Essential

• Wide variety of fieldwork placements in core rotations including Orthopaedics.
• NHS Acute Hospital Experience

Knowledge

Essential

• Clinical knowledge in clinical conditions associated with specialist area/sound level in theoretical knowledge of inpatient areas
• Sound working knowledge of the multi-disciplinary team
• Experience in use of basic IT system for data recording

Desirable

• Experience of providing supervision to junior staff

Skills

Essential

• Able to work as a team member and independently
• Sound Clinical Reasoning skills
• Ability to present information in logical concise manner

Aptitudes

Essential

• Ability to manage own time and pressure
• Ability to demonstrate personal and clinical effectiveness to achieve optimum patient care
• Strong belief in CPD and Reflective Practice

Other

Essential

• Manual Car Driver with clean licence, to enable home and access visits to patient residences as part of job role
• Ability to participate in 7 day service

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
• HCPC Registered

Desirable

• CSP member

Experience

Essential

• Wide variety of fieldwork placements in core rotations including Orthopaedics.
• NHS Acute Hospital Experience

Knowledge

Essential

• Clinical knowledge in clinical conditions associated with specialist area/sound level in theoretical knowledge of inpatient areas
• Sound working knowledge of the multi-disciplinary team
• Experience in use of basic IT system for data recording

Desirable

• Experience of providing supervision to junior staff

Skills

Essential

• Able to work as a team member and independently
• Sound Clinical Reasoning skills
• Ability to present information in logical concise manner

Aptitudes

Essential

• Ability to manage own time and pressure
• Ability to demonstrate personal and clinical effectiveness to achieve optimum patient care
• Strong belief in CPD and Reflective Practice

Other

Essential

• Manual Car Driver with clean licence, to enable home and access visits to patient residences as part of job role
• Ability to participate in 7 day service

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

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Additional information
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Peterborough City Hospital

Bretton Gate

Peterborough

PE3 9GZ

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