Senior Physiotherapist

NHS; Tandridge; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a motivated Band 6 Senior Physiotherapist to join their team. This role involves delivering high-quality assessments and rehabilitation services in a community setting. Candidates should possess a relevant physiotherapy degree and have post-registration experience in the NHS. The position offers competitive pay, training opportunities, and participation in a supportive team environment.

Benefits

High level of clinical support

Comprehensive staff health and wellbeing programme

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Post registration experience as a physiotherapist in the NHS.
• Experience of contributing to service development and supervision.
• Knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and current best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive physiotherapy services for patients.
• Work across multi-disciplinary teams to ensure continuity of care.
• Participate in weekend and bank holiday rotas for rehabilitation.

Skills

Competency in assessing patients

Communication skills

Planning and prioritizing

Ability to deliver training

Team development commitment

Education

BSc / Diploma in Physiotherapy

Health Care Profession Council registration

Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

Job description

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic Band 6Senior Physiotherapist to join our team and work with us to deliver top quality assessments, treatments, and rehabilitation to NHS patients in our Community Hospital and in the Community.

Are you a motivated and innovative Physiotherapist who enjoys working as part of a multi-disciplinary team with a focus on helping people to live well, for longer?

This could be the job for you!

We are passionate about ensuring that the workplace is a place where staff feel supported and positively challenged.

We offer:

• High level of clinical support
• Provision of high-quality training and development opportunities.
• Support to allow you work towards your full potential by further developing a range of skills.
• Being part of innovative and forward-thinking department.
• As we are committed to taking physiotherapy students on placements, there will also be opportunities for you to support students.
• Access to a comprehensive staff health and wellbeing programme.

We value staff ideas and are always working to improve how we deliver patient care. We are keen for staff to develop and build on their own ideas to contribute to further service improvement and innovation.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for:

Aphysiotherapist who has an experience in clinical management of patients withcomplex health and rehabilitation needs, who are at risk of a deterioratingquality of life.

Someoneinterested in developing further their leadership skills, ensuring positiveoutcomes and quality care for patients and staff.

Someone keento work with other health, social and community services to ensure continuityof care on discharge.

A motivated individual who is a team player and flexible, working withthe multi-disciplinary team to provide a seven-day service in our communityhospital.

Continued professional and personal development are stronglyencouraged and the post holder will be part of in-service training, clinicalsupervision as well as learning and development opportunities.

If you like how this sounds, then apply today. We look forward to receiving your application.

About us

Do you want to be part of an organisation that was rated best provider of NHS care to work for nationwide? (2023 staff survey results)

First Community is a staff ownedsocial enterprise rated Good by CQC, which delivers NHS community services acrosseast Surrey and parts of West Sussex. Weare looking for individuals who share our values First-rate care, First-rate people,First-rate value.

First Community is a great placeto work, everyone has a voice and is supported to develop their career to itsfull potential. We offer all our staff: NHS terms and conditions, high qualitytraining and development opportunities, flexible working to enable a good worklife balance, an inclusive and friendly work environment, an NHS pension,flexible retirement options and various employee benefits.

Please talk to us before applyingor at interview about the flexibility you need. We may not be able to meet yourneeds exactly, but we do promise to fully consider your request and meet your needswhere possible. Please note, flexible working options may vary depending on therole.

At First Community we welcomeapplications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+candidates and candidates with disabilities. We ensure that all applicants aretreated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process,including the consideration of reasonable adjustments.

Sustainability is integral toFirst Community achieving the NHS Net Zero target.

Job responsibilities

The Physiotherapist/post holder isresponsible for providing a comprehensive and co-ordinated range of specialistphysiotherapy therapeutic and preventative services and rehabilitation programmes which maintain orimprove the health, independence, and quality of life our patients on Caterham Dene Ward andin the community, reflecting the philosophy of First Community Health and Care.

The post holderwill be part of our multi-disciplinary team, working across the ward and in thecommunity, to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate timelyhospital discharges for patients and ongoing rehabilitation.

The post holderwill apply knowledge and skills across a range of conditions and medicalimpairments, procedures and practices gained through practical experience andunderpinned by theoretical knowledge.

The team provides a seven day a week rehabilitation service at CaterhamDene Hospital and in patients homes to enable safe rehabilitation. The post holder willparticipate in the weekend and bank holiday rota. Post holder will need to have a full drivers licence andcar for personal business use andbe able and prepared to drive between our bases at Caterham Dene Hospital andother community settings, as required, during their working day.

Whencompleting your application please refer to both the Application Guide and fullJob Description & Person Specification - these can be found undersupporting documents.

Person Specification

Experience

• Post registration experience in the NHS as a physiotherapist, covering a broad range of experience including rehabilitation.
• Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy team and/or Multi-Disciplinary Team.
• Experience of contributing to service development / audit.
• Evidence of student or physiotherapy/ rehabilitation assistant supervision
• Experience of lone working and decision making.

Qualifications

• BSc / Diploma Physiotherapy
• Health Care Profession Council registration
• Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Post-graduate training relevant to clinical speciality
• Practice Placement Educator training
• Member of Relevant Specialist Section

Knowledge

• Good working knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathology in application of physiotherapy skills.
• Good knowledge of assessment and treatment tools for speciality.
• Knowledge of CQC.
• Ability to assess and treat core and complex patient caseload in specialist field.
• Knowledge of current best practice.
• Previous therapy experience in the relevant clinical areas related to the post.

Skills

• Competency and ability to assess and treat core patient caseload in specialist field.
• Planning, prioritising, decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Articulate and good communication skills.
• Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate.
• Physiotherapy skills in assessment and treatment tools.
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance in relation to current best practice.
• Ability to deliver training.

Other

• Committed to personal and team development and to reliably work as part of a team.
• Full Drivers licence.
• Car owner / driver.
• Punctual and reliable.
• Motivated and enthusiastic.
• Ability to participate in 7 day a week rehabilitation at Caterham Dene Hospital.
• Demonstrate the broad range of skills that are desirable for this post.

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.

£38,682 to £46,580 a year+5% HCAS per annum, pro rata