An opportunity has arisen within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust for a Physiotherapist to join the band 5 cross-site rotation scheme. Potential for substantive and fixed term contract opportunities available.
Our band 5 rotation scheme includes rotations at the three main hospital sites, St Mary's Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital across a wide variety of areas, including Stroke, Respiratory, Community, Medicine, Neurosurgery, Musculoskeletal, Paediatrics, Neuro Rehabilitation & Orthopaedics. Band 5's will be expected to complete rotations in the core areas of Physiotherapy; Medicine and Respiratory.
You would be joining a supportive, well established team committed to providing a high standard of clinical care and modernising services to meet the needs of patients, referrers and commissioners. The department actively supports Continuing Professional Development and runs an established appraisal system.
The successful applicants must have their degree qualification and should be HCPC registered or have submitted their registration forms already.The physiotherapy department operates as a 7 day service and therefore this post will require working at weekends as part of contracted hours of work. This post will also support the current overnight on-call service (subject to competencies).
Please note that you must include details of clinical placement marks in your application and the supporting statement has a word limit of 500 words.
Main duties of the job
* To manage own caseload of patients as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate clinical supervision.
* To consolidate and develop clinical and non-clinical expertise.
* To be responsible for own CPD and own Professional and Personal Development.
* To work effectively within the team, department and organisation
* To contribute to service education, audit and research programmes.
* To participate in adult respiratory, orthopaedic and paediatric weekend working and on-call.
Key areas of responsibility
* Patient Care-Direct and Indirect
* To be professionally and legally accountable and responsible for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care.
* To use professional knowledge in order to undertake comprehensive assessment, re-assessment and discharge planning.
* Continued in Job description.
About us
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
* Professional degree qualification in relevant profession Physiotherapy
* HCPC registration
* Membership of Professional Body
* Membership of a specialist section.
* Degree classification upper second class honours or above (or equivalent)
Experience
* Experience in managing physical disability
* Wide range of experience in training /clinical placements
* Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of therapy intervention
* Liaison with professional colleagues, carers and relatives in the hospital and community.
* Experience in a clinical setting of application of professional standards and codes of conduct.
* Experience of using evidence based practice.
* Recent junior experience in a structured rotational scheme.
* Knowledge of clinical governance issues in relation to patient care
* Group teaching skills
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.
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