Acute Rotational Physiotherapist

Job overview

Rotational Physiotherapist

Band 5 - 37.5 hours - permanent

There is a new opportunity to join our friendly acute physiotherapy team as a rotational band 5. The post holder will rotate through a number of specialist areas on a 6 monthly basis including Respiratory wards, Critical Care, Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, musculoskeletal outpatients, Stroke Rehabilitation, Medicine and Orthopaedics.

As part of the role you will examine, assess and treat your own caseload of patients and participate in CPD, clinical audit and in-service training under the guidance of senior members of staff.

The post does contribute to the respiratory acute on call physiotherapy rota and therefore the successful candidate must have access to transport.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will rotate through a number of specialist areas on a 6 monthly basis including Respiratory wards, Critical Care, Cardiac Rehabilitation, MSK, Stroke Rehabilitation, Medicine and Community. They will examine, assess and treat their own caseload of patients. Participate in CPD, clinical audit and in-service training.

Be an autonomous practitioner being professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of their professional and clinical work.

Participate in the Respiratory On-call Rota and/ orthopaedic weekend service.

They will assess, diagnose, plan and deliver treatment and/or management programmes to patients in their care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focuses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.