Overview
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is recruiting for a Physiotherapist - Rotational who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. The closing date is 21 October 2025.
We are recruiting for a Physiotherapist - Rotational who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Main duties of the job
Deliver a complex package of high quality healthcare including assessment, diagnosis, treatment and advice to patients with various needs in a variety of settings. Participate in the Band 5 Rotational scheme which involves musculoskeletal outpatients, community care, acute orthopaedics, respiratory care including critical care, care of the elderly, acute medicine, stroke rehabilitation and medical rehabilitation.
Assess, diagnose and treat own patient caseload and maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner as well as communicating with relevant medical and nursing staff, social workers, other health care professionals, patients, relatives and carers
Be responsible for own patient caseload and work predominantly without direct supervision. Regular indirect clinical supervision is provided by a more senior member of the team. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case conferences and reflective practices. As well as participating in the physiotherapy emergency respiratory on-call service.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
* Physiotherapy degree or equivalent
* HCPC registration
* Documented evidence of professional development
Previous Experience
* Ability to assess patients conditions, establish the patients problem, formulate and implement a treatment plan in a wide variety of clinical settings
* Basic understanding of current NHS issues, professional standards, CPD, clinical governance
Skills
* Ability to communicate complex and/or sensitive information requiring empathy and reassurance
* Knowledge of barriers to communication and strategies to overcome them
* Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, other health professionals, patients and their relatives/carers
* Ability to present information accurately, written and oral in English
* Clinical problem solving ability in routine cases
* Ability to prioritise patient workload
* Physical skills, dexterity, coordination and sensory skills for assessment and manual treatment of patients
Other requirements
* Self -motivated
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.
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
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