Job Overview
An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Physiotherapist to join our Band 6 Rehab Rotational scheme, rotating on a 9 monthly rotation in the following clinical areas:
- Acute Stroke Unit
- Emergency Department (ED)
- Early Supported Discharge (ESD)
- Medical
- Community Inpatient Rehabilitation - Farnham
This rotation will allow you to develop as a Band 6 and gain experience in a supportive and friendly environment. You will have the opportunity to develop both clinically and managerially where excellence and commitment to trust values is encouraged.
We are committed to providing the best possible service to our patients offering a range of specialized Physiotherapy input to patients, enabling them to achieve their full potential.
We Can Offer You
- Excellent advanced learning opportunities with a high level of support and supervision and appraisal from senior colleagues
- Work with patients with a wide range of clinical conditions
- Peer support from a large group of colleagues on the rotation
- Positive commitment to CPD
Outstanding Benefits Package And Services Including
- Flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Extensive staff health and well being programs
- Blue Light Card, NHS discounts
Main duties of the job
To complete 9 monthly rotations through Stroke Unit/Neuro, Stroke Early Supported Discharge (ESD), Farnham Community Hospital Rehab wards, Emergency Department (ED), Medical Wards.
To provide a high standard physiotherapy service in assessing and treating patients who may have an acute, complex presentation.
To work alongside and communicate with Primary care providers and community services to ensure a safe rapid assessment and discharge of patients in an acute, fast paced environment.
To supervise and teach recently qualified physiotherapists / technicians / assistants and students and be involved in teaching MDT staff.
To participate in CPD and other departmental activities.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
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.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification attached for this role for further more detailed information.
For further information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Judith Moss Judith.moss4@nhs.net
Person specification
education
Essential criteria
- physiotherapy degree
- hcpc registration
Desirable criteria
- member of clinical interest group
Experience
Essential criteria
- NHS experience - completed 5 band 5 rotations
- supervision / appraisal experience
- on call experience
Desirable criteria
Skills
Essential criteria
- experience of working in a team
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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