Rotational Band 5 Physiotherapist (6 months fixed term)

Job overview

Are you a 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?

North Cheshire & Mersey NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Physiotherapist to join the Band 5 rotations on a 6-month fixed term contract. The successful candidate will join the therapy teams that work 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 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.