Contact information
For any queries regarding this job role, please contact Faye Cox on 01924 541113 or faye.cox1@nhs.net
About the role
The Band 5 Physiotherapist role is a static post within a multidisciplinary team comprising occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and technical instructors, working in an inpatient setting. The service provides care for patients admitted with trauma, orthopaedic, and amputee presentations, including elective orthopaedic procedures.
The post holder will work across Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals, delivering highquality physiotherapy assessment and intervention. The role focuses on supporting patient recovery, promoting safe and timely discharge planning, and providing essential therapeutic interventions to optimise functional outcomes and independence.
Main duties
* Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
* Use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to progress rehabilitation and treatment programmes. This will include patients with different cultural or language or who have difficulties in understanding or communicating. E.g. patients may be dysphasic, depressed, deaf, blind or who may be unable to accept diagnosis.
* Demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses, for the assessment and manual treatment of patients.
* Evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes if required.
* Provide specialist physiotherapy advice to patients and carers.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.
Essential person specification requirements
* Degree in Physiotherapy
* HCPC Registered
* Broad range of clinical experience across a variety of clinical areas through student placements/ or previous Band 5 posts
* Experience of dealing with general public
* Evidence of continued professional development
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.
Be part of MY team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application guidance:
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Our benefits
* Access to the NHS pension plan
* Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
* Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
* Extensive benefits and support, including:
* Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
* Home electronics scheme
* Cycle to work scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
* Car lease salary sacrifice scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
* Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
* Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
* Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
* Career progression, training and support
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