Senior Physiotherapist - Specialist Medicine

Job overview

Following an internal promotion, an opportunity has arisen for an experienced Physiotherapist with an interest in specialist medicine to join our integrated therapy team at Charing Cross Hospital.

The post holder will predominately be based on one of our 8th floor wards where they will help lead the team seeing a range of patients requiring therapy intervention prior to returning home or transfer to community rehab units. There will be a range of ages, conditions, co-morbidities and complex social situations to manage and the post holder will form an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, helping plan timely and safe discharges from the wards.

If you want to develop more confidence in your leadership, prioritisation, time management, delegation and problem solving skills, then this is an ideal opportunity for you. In addition, you will have supervisory responsibility for a rotational Band 5 Physio and will work closely with a Therapy Support Worker. Supervisory support and advice is always available.

We actively encourage members of the team to provide fieldwork education for students on a regular basis. Therefore, if you are new to student education we can provide you with an introduction to student supervision or if you are more experienced/would like to take students yourself, we can support you with that.

We need a team player with a positive outlook, enthusiasm and the ability to learn and develop new skills.

Main duties of the job

• The caseload will include adult patients presenting with a varied range of acute and chronic medical illnesses, falls, cognitive limitations, neurological impairments and complex psycho social issues.
• When providing physiotherapy within this Trust, the post holder will be expected to be professional, efficient, effective, with a commitment to evidence based practice and continuous personal and professional development
• The job holder is required to work at weekends as part of their contracted hours of work (specific rota details are held locally within departments).They will do so once they have completed the relevant induction and achieved the required competencies.
• In the future, there may be the opportunity to rotate to the CXH front door teams and to the Home First team in Hammersmith & Fulham.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

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.