Senior Private Patient Physiotherapist

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen on the Hammersmith site to join the physiotherapy team as the specialist physiotherapist for Private Patients. Our friendly department is full of opportunity for a dynamic, enthusiastic physiotherapist who wishes to develop a range of clinical and managerial expertise. The role will offer the opportunity to work with various patient groups including: Gynaecological surgery, Cardiac sciences, Hepatobiliary, Renal medicine and transplant, endocrine, and haemotology. . This role will include the opportunity to develop a pre-op service for patients to expand the Physiotherapy role within Private patients at Hammersmith Hospital.

We are looking for an enthusiastic physiotherapist, with a keen interest in developing and running private patient physiotherapy services, a wide range of clinical experience, good communication skills, interpersonal skills and a passion for delivering excellent patient centred care. You will have the opportunity to develop your specialist skills and knowledge and managerial skills through the delivery and evaluation of a service.

You will have support from band 7 colleagues within other specialities and also Band 8a clinical lead/ specialist physiotherapists and work closely with the well-established multi-disciplinary team. Alongside the clinical case load you will have the responsibilities of supervising student physiotherapists, the day to day service delivery and ensuring a high quality service is developed to these patients. You will also work closely with the band 8a physiotherapist to help with the continuous development of the services as we have a passion to ensuring a high class patient centred service.

We offer a comprehensive in-service training and induction programme. Internal and external courses are supported, and opportunities for postgraduate study exist. Our established appraisal system facilitates career development and progression.

Main duties of the job

Private patient services are provided by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust on all three sites. The service has a mixed caseload of cardiothoracic, urogynane, hepato-biliary surgery, renal and haematology medicine.

The post holder will be responsible for the provision of physiotherapy for these patients. To assess and treat patients requiring physiotherapy interventions including physical rehabilitation, acute respiratory intervention and on-going patient management.

To ensure high quality delivery of physiotherapy and work as an autonomous practitioner, to assess and treat the patients within the service. To promote clinical governance within the treatment of the patients on the private unit through the implementation of high standards of clinical practice, professional development of staff through training and education and undertaking of audit and research.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professional qualification in Physiotherapy
• HPC registered Physiotherapist

Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven post graduate experience in a variety of acute clinical areas
• Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Clinical education of students.
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team, including effective cross-Therapies working.
• Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient care.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of workings of private practice

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Able to present information, written and orally in a clear and logical manner.
• Ability to cope with working in a stressful environment and with challenging and or emotional situations.
• Ability to carry out physical effort during the working day and carry out concurrent activities requiring skill and dexterity.
• Ability to be empathetic and handle difficult or emotional situations consistently.
• Able to work flexibly based on the needs of the service.
• Knowledge of recent NHS developments and their impact on service provision.

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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

• Job description (PDF, 709.2KB)
• Functional Requirements Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)