Senior Physiotherapist
Nuffield Health Plymouth Hospital | Physiotherapy | Permanent Full Time | Part-time / Job Share hours considered
Salary range £36,750 - £46,580 pro rata per annum depending on experience
37.5 hours per week
Due to continued growth across our physiotherapy services in Plymouth, we are excited to be expanding our team and recruiting into this Senior Physiotherapist role.
At Nuffield Health, we want you to feel valued, supported and able to thrive. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed around your wellbeing and work–life balance, including:
* Free Nuffield Health gym membership
* Generous annual leave package, including 25 days plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell additional leave to suit your lifestyle.
* Wellness days
* Health assessments and wellbeing support
* Retail discounts
* Pension options
* Extensive CPD opportunities, including access to our Learning & Development Academy
* Funding support for relevant postgraduate study and CPD
* Flexible working options, including condensed hours, evenings and weekends
* A supportive, multidisciplinary environment with mentoring and clinical leadership
If you want to make a big impact on the wellbeing of your patients, this is where you can. As the UK’s largest healthcare charity, we’re shaping the nation’s health and we’ll help shape your future too.
As a Senior Physiotherapist at Nuffield Health Plymouth, you’ll have a BSc in Physiotherapy (or equivalent) and HCPC registration. You’ll bring excellent clinical reasoning and rehabilitation skills, a commitment to ongoing development, and confidence communicating with a wide range of people.
This role offers the opportunity to work across any of our three Plymouth sites:
* Nuffield Health Plymouth Hospital
* Devonshire FWB Gym
* Plymouth FWB Gym
There is also a requirement to work one day per week on our inpatient orthopaedic ward, plus participation in the weekend orthopaedic rota. Inpatient experience is therefore desirable.
You’ll be supported by our Regional Clinical Lead, fellow Physiotherapists and the on‑site management team.
The Role
You will see a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions and post operative cases, playing a key role in helping our patients achieve, maintain and recover to the level of health and wellbeing that they aspire to.
You will work within a multidisciplinary team including nurses, AHPS and consultants in order to optimise the health and recovery of our patients.
The hospital is brilliantly placed to support and mentor the successful candidate for this role, alongside our academy training programmes.
As a Senior Physiotherapist, you will:
* Deliver high quality, effective clinical care.
* Adhere to our values and beliefs at Nuffield Health, in which we encourage behaviour which is enterprising, passionate, independent and caring.
* Deliver excellent clinical care that is evidence based, Safe, Effective, Caring, Well-led and responsive to our patient’s needs.
* Ensure on-going monitoring of the standard of treatment provided.
* Be compliant with all professional, clinical and integrated governance standards and participate in clinical audit and other quality assurance processes.
To succeed as a Senior Physiotherapist, you will:
* Have a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent, you’ll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
* Demonstrate evidence of a good level of specialist Musculoskeletal experience
* Demonstrate evidence of further professional training and continual professional development, reflecting your desire to develop as a practitioner.
* Be a confident communicator with the ability to engage effectively with the general public and other healthcare professionals.
* Be able to demonstrate excellent rehabilitation skills.
* Be a competent and confident IT user with strong organisation skills.
* Have the ability to prioritise and deal with your varied workload in an effective and timely manner.
It’s equally important that you share our values. We believe in putting people first and providing personalised, holistic healthcare. That makes you part of a much wider team, working to create a healthier future for each individual client.
Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.
If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.
Candidates are encouraged to contact the Recruiting Manager to discuss anything they may wish to further, to provide any covering letter and arrange an informal visit if they require. Please email ruth.andrews@nuffieldhealth.com or call 01752 761819