Main area Physiotherapist Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (weekend and on-call working) Job ref 370-AHP5THE-1790
Employer Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Town Warrington Salary £29,970 - £36,483 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 03/07/2025 23:59 Interview date 12/07/2025
Rotational Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
Are you a soon to be qualified, newly qualified or an experienced Physiotherapist looking to work within a supportive, friendly, and dynamic therapy teams delivering Physiotherapy across a wide variety of rotations?
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Physiotherapist to join the Band 5 rotations. The successful candidate will join our therapy teams across a variety of inpatient, outpatient, intermediate care, and community settings and rotate every 6 months across a wide range of areas including:
* Neuro rehabilitation inpatients,
* Respiratory (including critical care unit) inpatients,
* General Surgery rehabilitation inpatients,
* Neuro rehabilitation Outpatients,
* Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Outpatients
* Intermediate Care & Frailty Service
* Halton Community Therapy team
Our teams are lively, friendly, dynamic and are keen to offer the best possible service to our patients. This role would be an excellent opportunity for qualified Physiotherapists looking to gain experience in a variety of core clinical areas. We offer preceptorship support and training opportunities to enable you to develop your career. As a Therapy service, we are big enough to provide you with varied experience and small enough to care.
Main duties of the job
Within this rotational role you will be expected to work as an autonomous Physiotherapist to provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients presenting with a range of conditions. This may be in a range of settings within the Hospital or Community.
Some of our teams offer a weekend working rota which you will be expected to contribute to in-line with delivering seven-day services.
Working for our organisation
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.
Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.
Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.
A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.
Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Experience
* A wide variety of rotational experience as a student or Physiotherapist.
* Previous work in NHS or placement experience within the NHS.
Qualifications
* BSc Hons Physiotherapy (or graduating within 4 months).
* Attendance at nationally recognised courses or other evidence of advancing knowledge
Skills
* Able to sound knowledge of the clinical management of patients across different clinical areas.
* Car driver with full UK license
WHH hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website .Please review your eligibility and the eligibility of the role before submitting your application.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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