Rotational Physiotherapist

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Camberley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 5 Physiotherapist for a full-time, permanent position with a start date in August 2025. The role includes rotations in various specialties such as Medicine, Surgery, and Neurology. This position emphasizes a supportive work environment, along with opportunities for professional development and a healthy work-life balance.

Benefits

Full time development opportunities

Flexible working patterns

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Must have HPC Registration and a degree in Physiotherapy.
• Demonstration of core clinical placements during training required.
• Ability to give clear and concise verbal and written reports.

Responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive patient assessments to provide accurate diagnoses.
• Formulate treatment plans and evaluate patient progress.
• Plan and supervise physiotherapy technical instructors and assistants.

Skills

Communication

Organisational skills

Clinical reasoning

Education

Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy

HPC Registration

Job description

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Job Overview

Band 5 physiotherapist

Full time, permanent position

Start date August 2025

We are seeking enthusiastic and well-motivated Physiotherapists to join our four monthly junior rotational programme across both in and out-patient settings across Frimley and community.

Rotations are of 4 months duration in the following specialities:

• Medicine
• Acute respiratory
• Surgery/ITU
• Orthopaedics
• MSK OP
• Neurology
• Paediatrics
• Vascular
• Community
  
  

At Frimley Trust, we promise to provide a supportive transition to the workplace, through the launch of our brand new Multi-professional Preceptorship program which started in September 2024. This program is run in partnership with the clinical education directorate and Therapies department. It provides protected opportunities for training, supervision, networking and education, to enable our staff to reach their full potential and adjust well into their new working environment.

Under the guidance of an experienced team you will have the opportunity to develop both clinically and managerially within a friendly and supportive environment where excellence is encouraged. You will receive regular support, supervision and training and be passionate about MDT working and service development.

Please note you will be expected to attend a face to face interview and need to be ready to start in the role immediately. Please note this vacancy will close early if we receive a high number of applicants.

Main duties of the job

• The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication skills and a commitment to developing their clinical expertise.
• You will be proactive, use your initiative, and possess strong organisational skills to effectively prioritise and manage your caseload.
• Once trained and deemed competent, you will participate in weekend working, seven-day services, extended hours (dependent on rotation), and the on-call rota.
  
  

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

• To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with diverse presentation/multi pathologies, using clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition.
• To formulate soundly reasoned prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing negotiated goals leading to comprehensive discharge plans.
• To take delegated responsibility from the Senior physiotherapist for managing patients with particular conditions and be responsible for providing physiotherapy assessment and treatment plans for patients with these conditions within each rotation.
• To evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes.
• To be involved in the teaching, planning and clinical supervision of physiotherapy technical instructors and physiotherapy assistants.
• To work as part of the physiotherapy team providing weekend service as required in each of the clinical areas.
• To use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to progress rehabilitation and treatment programmes, and to ensure an understanding of their condition/problem so that patients are supported in self management of their condition.
• To communicate patient related information effectively, to ensure collaborative working with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) members.
• To maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation in line with legal and departmental requirements and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports and letters.
• To ensure that your own practice and that of staff under your supervision meet the required professional standards of physiotherapy practice.
• To be responsible for organising and planning own caseload to meet service and patient priorities, readjusting plans as situations change/arise.
• To be responsible for the supervision and co-ordination of physiotherapy technical instructors and assistants on a daily basis.
• To be responsible for the safe and competent use of gym, hydrotherapy and electrotherapy equipment by patients.
  
  

For Further Information Please See Attached The Job Description

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• HPC Registration
• Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within the NHS as a student / assistant
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Able to give clear, concise and effective verbal and written reports.
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance and understand need for CPD
• Be able to work under pressure and able to give example
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ability to present information to a small group.
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate adequate number of core clinical placements have been achieved during physiotherapy course and must include respiratory placement
• Competency demonstrated in these placements.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience within inpatients
• Experience within outpatients
  
  

SPECIAL

Essential criteria

• Willingness to work flexibly and participate in rotation scheme, 7 day working and respiratory on call.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Mention Trust Values with examples of application
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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