University Hospital Wishaw
The Role
This full-time, band 6 physiotherapy post within surgical and critical care at University Hospital Wishaw represents a fantastic opportunity to join a high performing, supportive and proactive team. The surgical physiotherapy team covers critical care, general surgery wards and amputee outpatient service. The team focuses on quality service delivery, patient centred interventions and team well-being.
You will get the opportunity to clinically supervise band 5 physiotherapists and physiotherapy support workers, and provide clinical education to physiotherapy students on placement. The successful candidate will join the on-call physiotherapy rota for UHW.
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
What we'll need you to bring
1. Registered Physiotherapist with valid HCPC Registration
2. Educated to/working towards/operating at Degree Level
3. Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
4. Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice.
5. Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies and procedures associated with the speciality/area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within speciality / area of practice.
6. Leadership skills to enable the day to day management of service delivery.
7. Further education/evidence of Continuous Professional Development in area of speciality including study days/courses/post graduate qualification
8. The post holder will possess excellent team-working/leadership skills and have the ability to motivate others and work using own initiative
9. Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills.
10. Effective time management skills
11. Working knowledge of basic information technology
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It would be great if you also have
12. Member of CSP
13. Membership of relevant special interest group
14. Experience in multi disciplinary working
15. Experience in research and audit
16. Experience or interest in specialist area as detailed in role profile for this post
Contract type
Permanent
Full time
37 hours
Location and Working Pattern
This role will be based in Physiotherapy Department within University Hospital Wishaw.
Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.
Looking to find out more?
If youre looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!