Physiotherapist - Orthopaedics

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Junior Physiotherapist to join our inpatient Orthopaedic team. The role offers autonomy within a dynamic NHS environment, with responsibilities across assessment, treatment and discharge planning for complex orthopaedic patients.

The successful candidate will participate in weekend and evening shifts (12:00–20:00) and will have NHS experience at student, assistant, or qualified level.

Qualifications

• Must hold a Physiotherapist qualification and be eligible to practice in the UK.
• Ability to work autonomously within an inpatient orthopaedic team.
• Strong commitment to patient-centred care and evidence-based practice.

Responsibilities

• Assess and provide physiotherapy management as an autonomous practitioner for inpatients.
• Formulate prognoses and develop treatment and discharge plans.
• Demonstrate dexterity and palpatory skills for assessment and manual therapy.
• Maintain high standards of clinical practice and support staff accordingly.
• Assess capacity for informed consent and work within the legal framework.
• Participate in weekend and late shifts as required (12‑8pm).
• Support teamwork and assist colleagues during high service demand.
• Promote health promotion within the hospital setting.
• Manage clinical risk with own caseload.

Skills

Physiotherapy

Autonomous practice

Inpatient care

Orthopaedics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Physiotherapy

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Junior Physiotherapist to join our award winning, adult inpatient Orthopaedic team.

We are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic and forward thinking physiotherapist, with the ability to work with a high degree of professional autonomy.

The inpatient team is a friendly, enthusiastic and hard working team winning the Chief Allied Health Professions Officer's, AHP Quality Improvement Award 2019, for our accelerated rehabilitation protocol for patients undergoing uni-compartmental knee replacements.

We have a world‑class reputation for teaching and research and within the wider physiotherapy department, you will benefit from access to a large team of specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapists and clinical specialists.

This position offers an excellent opportunity to gain experience of working on the inpatient wards of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre treating patients undergoing daycase surgery, primary joint replacement, complex revision surgery, daycase surgery, limb reconstruction and sarcoma.

You will be supported to develop clinically and to contribute towards service improvement within Orthopaedics.

The successful candidate will be required to participate in weekend and late shift working patterns, which will involve working 12-8pm, one day a week. Previous NHS experience as a student, assistant or a qualified physiotherapist is required for this role.

Key Responsibilities

1. To assess and provide physiotherapy management and treatment as an autonomous practitioner for in‑patients including those undergoing complex orthopaedic procedures and sarcoma patients with complex presentations and multi pathology. This requires the use of moderate physical effort for several periods during a shift.
2. To formulate accurate prognoses and develop specialised treatment programmes and discharge plans, based where possible on evidence based practice.
3. To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co‑ordination and palpatory senses for the assessment and manual treatment of patients.
4. To set, maintain and monitor a high standard of clinical practice and encourage all staff to do likewise.
5. To assess a patient's capacity to understand and to gain valid, informed consent to treatment. To work within the legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to give informed consent or refuse.
6. To participate in the weekend, evening on call, and late shift rota's as required, this may involve adopting a flexible work pattern when requested by the Inpatient Team Lead to cover the inpatient physiotherapy service's twilight hours (16.30-20.00).
7. To maintain a flexible approach to teamwork and offer help to colleagues in times of high service demand.
8. To encourage health promotion within the hospital by example and advice to individual patients.
9. To manage clinical risk with own caseload at all times.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.