Senior Physiotherapist Critical Care and Surgery

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced physiotherapist to join the Critical Care and Surgical physiotherapy team at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.  This proactive team covers  many speciality  wards including Intensive Care and High Dependency Units, as well as specialist surgical wards  including colorectal, urology, gynaecology and ENT.

There is also opportunity to  develop skills to contribute to the Amputee Outpatient service.

We are a friendly physiotherapy team who strive to provide excellent patient care with compassion, dignity and respect.

We are seeking applicants with some experience working within the acute setting. You must have up to date knowledge and experience of current developments and drivers within the wider healthcare setting, specifically around treatment of surgical patients and the critically unwell, as well as discharge planning.

The Trust is committed to supporting and developing staff through appraisals and the supervision process. Senior staff have individual supervision and peer support as well as access to training.

The Trust provides clinical placements for students from Sheffield, Derby and Nottingham and the successful applicant will have experience of supervising under-graduate students.

Main duties of the job

To work with the Lead Senior Physiotherapists in Critical Care, Surgery and Amputees to co-ordinate and monitor an effective and efficient service to meet the needs of the inpatients referred across Surgery and Critical Care.

To manage autonomously, a complex inpatient caseload requiring Physiotherapy and MDT joint assessments on Critical Care and Surgical Wards.

To be responsible for Training, Supervision and Appraisals of more junior staff.

To participate in the 7 day respiratory service to the medical, surgical and critical care  wards and the emergency on-call respiratory service.

To work with the Head of Physiotherapy and other senior physiotherapy colleagues to monitor, evaluate and develop existing services in Critical Care and Surgery in line with the changing needs of the Trust.

Depending on experience and service need, there may be opportunities to gain experience working within our Amputee Outpatient clinics.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description for further information about the role and job requirements.

Please do not hesitate to contact Rachel Prosser  or Jennifer Pearson on 01246 512185 or [email protected] if you have any questions.