Physiotherapist

Job summary

Are you a soon to be qualified, newly qualified or an experienced Physiotherapist looking to work within a supportive, friendly, and dynamic therapy teams delivering Physiotherapy across a wide variety of rotations?

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Physiotherapist to join the Band 5 rotations. The successful candidate will join our therapy teams across a variety of inpatient, outpatient, intermediate care, and community settings and rotate every 6 months across a wide range of areas including:

• Acute medical including our award-winning dementia unit,
• Neuro rehabilitation inpatients,
• Trauma & Orthopaedics (including Paediatrics) inpatients,
• Respiratory (including critical care unit) inpatients,
• General Surgery rehabilitation inpatients,
• Neuro rehabilitation Outpatients,
• Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Outpatients
• Intermediate Care & Frailty Service
• Halton Community Therapy team

Our teams are lively, friendly, dynamic and are keen to offer the best possible service to our patients. This role would be an excellent opportunity for qualified Physiotherapists looking to gain experience in a variety of core clinical areas. We offer preceptorship support and training opportunities to enable you to develop your career. As a Therapy service, we are big enough to provide you with varied experience and small enough to care.

Main duties of the job

Within this rotational role you will be expected to work as an autonomous Physiotherapist to provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients presenting with a range of conditions. This may be in a range of settings within the Hospital or Community.

Some of our teams offer a weekend working rota which you will be expected to contribute to in-line with delivering seven-day services.

About us

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.