Clincal Lead - Physiotherapist (nuffieldhealth)

Job Description

Clincal Lead - Physiotherapist

Guildford Hospital | Physiotherapy | Permanent | Full time

Up to £49,500 per annum, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

The Guildford Nuffield is looking for an ambitious Clinical Lead physiotherapist to help support the management of the Physiotherapy service, ensuring delivery of high quality effective clinical care through assessment, Planning implementation and evaluation of treatment. You will help provide leadership, motivation and supervision to the physiotherapy team as well as providing clinical care for patients. 

You will bring experience from working within a physiotherapy setting and supervising people, but also deliver treatment to patients. The role will be primarily based at Guildford Nuffield hospital with some hours at Guildford Nuffield Fitness and wellbeing site and supporting other local site when needed. You will integrate with staff from Out-patients, pre-assessment, Theatres and the Ward. The role is outpatient based with an expectation to cover inpatients when needed.

You will be responsible for the delivery of safe effective care services that provides patients with the highest level of customer experience within Physiotherapy, identifying and delivering quality improvement opportunities. You will work with the Physiotherapy Manager to deliver relevant aspects of the Hospital business plan.

You’ll enjoy the variety of working within different specialist areas and building strong links with our consultants. And you’ll do it in an innovative, clean, modern working environment, while benefiting from support and training opportunities, plus the time and nurse-patient ratio that ensures quality of care.
 

As our Clinical lead Physiotherapist you will:

• Efficiently help run a dynamic team

• Maintain clinical workload alongside some managerial duties.

• Work with Consultants to ensure best practice

• Take on responsibilities for challenges, driving quality service and outcomes

• Help to develop and grow the department

•  Integrate with the wider hospital teams to ensure best patient outcomes

• Maintain CQC standards at all times, undertake departmental risk assessments, maintain plans for minimising incidents, and report appropriately. 

• Support the physiotherapy manager to help deliver the best experience for our patients

To succeed as a clinical lead physiotherapist you will need:

• To be a qualified Physiotherapist with a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent and you’ll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.

• Demonstrable passion for excellence and driving standards

• To be proactive, adaptable and innovative

• Confident communicating skills with excellent customer service standards and dealing with escalations

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

• Orthopaedic Experience

Supporting your growth.

We’re committed to the professional development of all our clinical colleagues. Inside our Learning and Development Academy, you’ll discover a range of internal CPD courses and online content to support your clinical and professional development. As a Nuffield Health Physiotherapist, you’ll also enjoy opportunities to apply for funding support towards your relevant CPD activity and postgraduate study. Plus, you can access further professional development opportunities via the large number of apprenticeship programmes we offer.

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. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital provides high-quality healthcare working with leading Consultants to offer a range of services and treatments for preventing, diagnosing and treating a wide array of medical conditions and offer a wide range of complex surgery and services. We are proud to have received a "good" rating from the health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our facilities include 49 en-suite patient bedrooms, 4 operating theatres, acute dependency and oncology units. We’ve been awarded the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark for cancer care and our Endoscopy service has achieved JAG accreditation. Our site is shared with an NHS Trust hospital, giving us access to their facilities. The working atmosphere is highly professional and stimulating, yet friendly and collaborative like that of a large family unit.

The hospital is easily accessible from the A3 or M25 and we are located about 1.5 miles from Guildford town centre.  

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.

It starts with you.