Physiotherapist Orthopaedics (Non-rotational)

Are you a motivated and forward-thinking Physiotherapist with a passion for problem solving and Orthopaedics?

Do you thrive on working within a busy unit with great MDT links?

The Trauma and Orthopaedic department at Frimley Health is home to one of the largest Orthopaedic units in south east England. The large Orthopaedic unit at Frimley Park Hospital is supported by over 25 Orthopaedic consultants and a Physio team of 14 staff.

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a high standard physiotherapy service in assessing and treating patients who may have a complex presentation.
• To participate in CPD and other departmental activities.
• To supervise and teach recently qualified Physiotherapists/Technicians/Assistants and Students and be involved in teaching MDT staff

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Some Of The Main Job Responsibilities Will Include

• Be responsible for a varied caseload of trauma, including spinal cord injured patients and complex multi-trauma.
• Be responsible for the supervision & appraisal of rotational staff and students.
• Have support and supervision from an experienced Team Leader, Clinical Lead and Principal Physiotherapist
• Attend MDT trauma meetings weekly.
• Contribute to the in-service training programme.
• Contribute to service audit.
• Participate in specific orthopaedic senior in-service training with the other orthopaedic band 6s, band 7s and 8a. This programme is designed to challenge and improve your knowledge and clinical reasoning whilst improving your presenting skills.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Worked as Band 5 Physiotherapist on In-patient Orthopaedics in the NHS
• Completed Band 5 physiotherapy rotations in the NHS

Desirable criteria

• Experience supervising other members of staff
• Experience supervising students

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates knowledge of common orthopaedic conditions

Desirable criteria

• Member of Orthopaedic interest group

Skills

Essential criteria

• Evidence of working with spinal cord injury patients
• Completion of Rehabilitation Prescriptions & National Major Trauma Registry

Desirable criteria

• Completed ASIA assessments

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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