Senior physiotherapist – guildford

Contract Type: 0

Salary: £41957 – £50387

Partner Org: Royal Surrey County Hospital

Are you interested in joining a dynamic, forward-thinking team while developing both your clinical and non-clinical expertise? This is an excellent opportunity to expand your knowledge and experience in frailty and the care of older adults.

We are seeking a motivated Senior Physiotherapist to join our Older Persons Therapy Team. The successful candidate will be supported to develop advanced clinical skills and extended practice in frailty, working alongside a highly respected, innovative, and dedicated multidisciplinary team.

This rotational role offers the opportunity to gain experience across a variety of clinical settings, including:

• Emergency Department (ED) and Acute Medicine Unit (AMU)
• Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (FSDEC)
• Older Persons’ wards

Applicants must have prior NHS experience and be registered with the HCPC.

Main duties of the job

To provide physiotherapy to relevant patients within Frailty and older adults, in a range of settings including inpatients, outpatients and patient homes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To assess and treat patients in relevant rotational area. To support the team in the organisation and provision of an efficient, high quality and co-ordinated physiotherapy service for patients in each area. To undertake a defined clinical caseload. To ensure that patient and service standards and priorities are met. To provide clinical supervision to assigned Band 5 physiotherapists, technical instructors (TI), physiotherapy assistants (PTA) and students.

Person specification

Essential

• Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
• Demonstrable skill to work together to serve our community through delivering safe and excellent clinical care
• Value diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
• Treating others with compassion, empathy and respect
• Share information openly and effectively with patients, staff and relatives
• Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
• Uses evidence to make improvements, increase efficiencies and seeks out innovation
• Actively develops themselves and others

Qualifications

• HCPC registration
• BSc Physiotherapy

Desirable criteria

• Post graduate qualifications in Frailty Physiotherapy or older persons rehabilitation
• Member of Specific interest group
• Member of CSP