Physiotherapist

Job summary

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individuals to join our physiotherapy team. This is a rotational role that will involve working at Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Queen Victoria Centre in Morecambe and Moor Lane Mills within our community team. If you're the type of health professional who truly has the patient at the heart of everything you do and you want to work in a Trust that shares your values, then this might just be the perfect role for you.

Working as a bank Band 5 Physiotherapist you will have the opportunity work across a variety of clinical areas across inpatients and outpatients and community. These areas include orthopaedics, medicine, stroke, elderly rehab, Surgery, MSK outpatients, supported discharge and general community. You will have the opportunity to develop your skills with support from experienced Specialist and Advanced Physiotherapists. As experience is gained you will work to support our weekend and on-call service at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, this is on a rota basis.

The band 5 rotations are currently 4 months long.

We would like to encourage newly qualified physiotherapists to apply including those yet to receive their HCPC registration.

Due to the format of the interview all shortlisted candidates will be required to attend the assessment centre in person.

Main duties of the job

This is a clinical, patient facing role where you will be involved in providing clinical input for a caseload of patients, supporting discharge and patient flow as part of the MDT.

You will have responsibility for independently managing a patient caseload, providing of assessment and treatment as appropriate.

We work as a multi-disciplinary team and you will have the opportunity to contribute to service improvement, helping to develop and improve clinical pathways of care for our patients.

As a Trust we actively support you to develop your knowledge and skills via our Annual Development Review programme and you will have the opportunity to learn from a team of experienced Specialist and Advanced Physiotherapists. We offer a clinical and managerial in-service training programme and a monthly Band 5 Physiotherapy Peer Support group.

We have a student programme and there will be opportunities to contribute to the clinical education of students within our team.

You will also have the opportunity to develop leadership skills working with, our technical instructor staff and providing training for them.

See job description for further details.

About us

We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community health care premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.

WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.

All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.