Senior Physiotherapist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the orthopaedic therapy team at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital.

To provide a high standard physiotherapy service to the inpatient trauma and elective orthopaedic wards as well as the arthroplasty clinic at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke.

To perform advanced therapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions, to provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.

To hold responsibility for own caseload and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type, working often without direct supervision. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review and case conferences. Access to advice and support from a senior therapist is always available if required, clinical work is evaluated through supervision sessions.

To deputise for the Band 7 in operational management of the team when required.

To provide supervision and teaching within the MDT and to students.

To undertake quality improvement projects to further own and team's clinical practice. Make recommendations to Team Lead/Service Lead for changes to practice by the team. Assist in the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service development.

Main duties of the job

• To work on the orthopaedic trauma and elective wards at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, to provide an individual assessment and treatment programme for your patients
• To support the team with providing therapy for orthopaedic outlier patients
• To support the team with supervising junior staff members, therapy support workers and students
• Support clinics such as shockwave and the elective arthroplasty follow up clinics
• To take part and lead in the robust in service training programme to the team and wider MDT
• When required, support the orthopaedic therapy team cross site
• To take an active role in service development, quality improvement and other projects within the department and Trust
• Deputise for the team leads when they are absent
• Take part in the weekend rota
• Take part in the respiratory on-call rota

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.