Job summary
We are recruiting for a Senior Physiotherapist - Rotational who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We offer excellent opportunities for new and experienced band 6's wanting to enhance their skills. We offer strong professional leadership across the acute therapy service at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. We also offer a community rotation in partnership with Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust.
Our inpatient service covers Acute Trust rotations at Lister Hospital, Stevenage which includes respiratory care, including on call opportunities; orthopaedics; care of the elderly; stroke/hyper-acute stroke unit; general medical wards and acute medical assessment.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the post will include assessment and treatment of patients within the wards at Lister Hospital and in their own homes when on community rotation, supervision and mentoring of non-qualified staff and students, taking part in in-service training, and taking a role in service improvement projects.
You will be actively involved in the respiratory physiotherapy on-call service to the whole of the Lister Hospital site.
You will also be expected to travel easily between trust sites independently.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- HCPC registration
- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Previous Experience
Essential
- Previous relevant NHS post graduate experience
- Experience of integrated working
- Knowledge of relevant standardised assessment tools and outcome measures
- Evidence of clinical practise influenced by evidence based practise
- Knowledge of advanced anatomy and physiology related to clinical area
- Implementation and adherence to Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Standards/Guidelines
- Ability to promote development in others
- Student placement or staff members supervisor
- Ability to monitor and maintain Best Practice in all aspects of health & Safety - in own practices and of wider service
Skills
Essential
- Clear, concise and ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences; to utilise a variety of mediums and approaches
- Able to influence, guide, teach, motivate and lead others
- Information technology skills including: e-mail, Word, Excel & Power Point
- Developed Clinical problem solving ability
- Ability to assess patient conditions, establish a diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan, from a range of modalities
- Developed skills in physiotherapeutic techniques
- Ability to educate individual patients, relatives or carers about the nature of their condition and self-management techniques
- Ability to teach and present physiotherapy topics to qualified and non/qualified staff and other health care professions, individually or in groups.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Adaptable and flexible
- Empathy, good listener, humility and honesty
- Seek to improve self and others in order to deliver best possible care
- Responsible and reliable attitude to work
- Professional demeanour
- Confident and motivated
Other Requirements
Essential
- Willingness to uphold the Trust's values
- Eligible to live and work in the UK
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- HCPC registration
- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Previous Experience
Essential
- Previous relevant NHS post graduate experience
- Experience of integrated working
- Knowledge of relevant standardised assessment tools and outcome measures
- Evidence of clinical practise influenced by evidence based practise
- Knowledge of advanced anatomy and physiology related to clinical area
- Implementation and adherence to Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Standards/Guidelines
- Ability to promote development in others
- Student placement or staff members supervisor
- Ability to monitor and maintain Best Practice in all aspects of health & Safety - in own practices and of wider service
Skills
Essential
- Clear, concise and ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences; to utilise a variety of mediums and approaches
- Able to influence, guide, teach, motivate and lead others
- Information technology skills including: e-mail, Word, Excel & Power Point
- Developed Clinical problem solving ability
- Ability to assess patient conditions, establish a diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan, from a range of modalities
- Developed skills in physiotherapeutic techniques
- Ability to educate individual patients, relatives or carers about the nature of their condition and self-management techniques
- Ability to teach and present physiotherapy topics to qualified and non/qualified staff and other health care professions, individually or in groups.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Adaptable and flexible
- Empathy, good listener, humility and honesty
- Seek to improve self and others in order to deliver best possible care
- Responsible and reliable attitude to work
- Professional demeanour
- Confident and motivated
Other Requirements
Essential
- Willingness to uphold the Trust's values
- Eligible to live and work in the UK
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
