Senior Physiotherapist (nuffieldhealth)

Job Description

Senior Physiotherapist

Exeter Hospital | Physiotherapy | Permanent contract | Part time

Up to £39,000.00 per annum (pro rata), depending on experience

20 hours per week

If you want to make a big impact on the wellbeing of your patients, here’s where you can. As the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity, we’re shaping the nation’s health. We support and encourage postgraduate education with access to training, mentoring and career development – so we’ll help shape your future, too.

Our Physiotherapy team in Exeter Hospital currently have an opportunity for a Senior Inpatient Ward Physiotherapist (Orthopaedics & General Surgery).

As part of the team you will have clinical support available from your Regional clinical lead along with a team of experienced Physiotherapists and leadership from the management team on site. You will have a CPD budget to encourage you to continue your learning and striving for clinical excellence.JOB IS FROM: italents.netVIEW

We can offer part time hours (20 hours per week) with a mixture of orthopaedic and general surgery patients.

The Role

You will see a wide range of post-operative cases, playing a key role in helping our patients achieve, maintain and recover to the level of health and wellbeing that they aspire to.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team including nurses, AHPS and consultants in order to optimise the health and recovery of our patients.

The hospital is brilliantly placed to support and mentor the successful candidate for this role, alongside our academy training programmes.

As a Senior Inpatient Physiotherapist you will:

• Deliver high quality, effective clinical care.

• Adhere to our values and beliefs at Nuffield Health.

• Deliver excellent clinical care that is evidence based, Safe, Effective, Caring, well-led and responsive to our patient’s needs.

• Ensure on-going monitoring of the standard of treatment provided.

• Be compliant with all professional, clinical and integrated governance standards and participate in clinical audit and other quality assurance processes.

To succeed as a Senior Inpatient Physiotherapist you will:

• Have a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent and you’ll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP).

• Have a minimum of 2 years post-graduate experience, having worked on an inpatient ward and with a high level of orthopaedic knowledge.

• Understand both the Public NHS and Private healthcare service.

• Demonstrate evidence of further professional training and continual professional development, reflecting your desire to develop as a practitioner.

• Be a confident communicator with the ability to engage effectively with patients, the general public and other healthcare professionals.

• Be able to auscultate a chest.

• Be a competent and confident IT user with strong organisation skills.

• Have the ability to prioritise and deal with your varied workload in an effective and timely manner.

It’s equally important that you share our values. We believe in putting people first and providing personalised, holistic healthcare. That makes you part of a much wider team, working to create a healthier future for each individual client.

The Benefits

We believe in our people and to help you develop your skills and progress your career in Nuffield Health

• You will be supported by your regional clinical lead and clinical line manager.

• Have protected CPD time, access to a local in-service training program and training events organised by the Nuffield Health Academy including both clinical and leadership courses.

• There will also be mentoring support within the department from Senior Physiotherapists and support with career development.

As Nuffield Health continues to grow you can choose to develop your career within clinical roles or by moving into managerial positions. We support and encourage post-graduate education and have formed a partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University which will offer fantastic learning and research opportunities in the future.

Be your best and join us in building a healthier nation.
 

For further information please contact: joe.gore@nuffieldhealth.com

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. At Nuffield Health, you can access everything from free gym membership to private healthcare and financial advice. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital 

The Exeter Nuffield hospital is based next to the RD&E hospital in Wonford, Exeter. The hospital has 2 theatres, as well as a hybrid cardiac catheter laboratory/theatre and an Endoscopy suite. There are two ward areas: an inpatient area with 21 beds and a day-case ward with 12 beds. We also have a busy outpatient department, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and radiology department including an MRI scanner. We specialise in elective orthopaedic and spinal surgery, cardiology including invasive procedures, general surgery, plastics and cosmetic surgery, ENT and gynaecology. The Hospital has a MAKO robot that undertakes some of the joint replacement surgery which we have become well known for in this field of surgery.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role. Continue your journey with us whilst we’ll support you to be your best.

It starts with you.