Rotational Physiotherapist

Job overview

The opportunity has arisen to grow and evolve our Physiotherapy service at West Suffolk Foundation Trust, Bury St Edmunds.  We have exciting prospect for a Band 6 Physiotherapy post within the acute trust, community assessment beds, and community rotations.

The Rotational post would be suitable for someone seeking to develop their physiotherapy clinical and leadership skills at Band 6 level in a wide range of specialities.

You will benefit from working in a busy NHS Trust offering rotational experience in the following:  Medicine, Community, ITU/Respiratory, Community Respiratory, Paediatrics (including MSK clinics), Neurology/Stroke, Orthopaedics and Early Intervention.  Weekend working, evening clinics and emergency on-call working are integral to these rotations.  Some of the rotations require seven-day rostering so you will need to be flexible to support this. Venues for delivering our services include outreach clinics, inpatient wards, patients’ homes and community bases.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of physiotherapy assessment and treatment of patients in a variety of inpatient, outpatient and community settings.

To autonomously manage a sometimes complex clinical case load and undertake professional duties as a qualified senior physiotherapist, seeking advice where appropriate

To maintain an active professional development portfolio and to continue with on-going post-graduate learning.

To effectively communicate complex information in both clinical and non-clinical settings

To assist in the development of junior staff

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see Job Description for more information

Job summary:

• To provide a high standard of physiotherapy assessment and treatment of patients in a variety of inpatient, outpatient and community settings.
• To autonomously manage a sometimes complex clinical case load and undertake professional duties as a qualified senior physiotherapist, seeking advice where appropriate
• To maintain an active professional development portfolio and to continue with on-going post-graduate learning.
• To effectively communicate complex information in both clinical and non-clinical settings
• To assist in the development of junior staff

Key working relationships:

• Patients and carers
• Multidisciplinary team members
• Colleagues and other professionals within acute, primary and tertiary healthcare
• Voluntary groups and organisations