Physiotherapist Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy

Job summary

We are excited to offer a permanent position opportunity to join our dedicated Trauma and Orthopaedic therapy team.

In this vital role, you will provide essential therapy input to both elective and trauma patients, playing a key part in their recovery journey. You'll actively facilitate early mobilisation and timely discharge, working towards our goals of elective recovery, Best Practice Tariff, and key performance indicator (KPI) targets. This is an excellent chance to contribute directly to patient outcomes and gain valuable experience within a specialised and fast-paced environment.

Main duties of the job

Provide specialist therapy input to Orthopaedic elective and Trauma patients.

Provide support and supervision to band 5 and band 3 staff within the team.

To work independently across the unit.

To participate on the weekend rota.

Participate in audit and improvement projects across the unit.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visitingwww.experiencesalisbury.co.uk