Specialist Physiotherapist

Job overview

Are you enthusiastic and motivated? Do you relish a challenge? Are you innovative, dynamic and a good problem solver? This exciting role could be for you.

If you are an experienced Band 6 or a Band 5 Registered Physiotherapist looking for a developmental role to take you to your next step in your career, we want to hear from you.

You will be joining our thriving Medical Team at Hinchingbrooke Hospital which consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and support staff, and is responsible for the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of patients to facilitate safe, timely discharges. This role is required to support Respiratory on-call rota.

We are invested in enhancing your specialist clinical knowledge and developing your managerial and leadership skills supporting with;

• Peer & senior support
• Supervision
• Protected non-clinical time
• CPD opportunities
• Student education
• Appraisals
• Specialty workstreams; MSCC, Parkinson’s Disease, falls & frailty, neurology and dementia & delirium
• Cross site & regional professional meetings

If you would like further information, please contact Rebecca Murphy, Highly Specialist Team Lead Physio on [email protected]

Interviews for this role will be conducted in person to assess relevant skills effectively.

Main duties of the job

• To enable Physiotherapy to provide Therapy Skills within the inpatient service
• To ensure safe, efficient and effective delivery of patient focussed care in line with identified evidence based practice, local and national standards
• To work collaboratively within Multidisciplinary and Multi-agency Teams
• To participate in delegated projects for service development with the team
• To act autonomously in the assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have a complex presentation
• To demonstrate a flexible approach to working in support of the whole in patient/outpatient team
• To undertake weekend working as required within service developments
• To be available to provide Clinical Supervision
• This role entails 80% Clinical Contact and 20% Operational Management as appropriate within team requirements
• To guide Band 5 and support staff in the management and delivery of therapeutic care plans

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the person specification and job description for more details regarding this role.