Senior Physiotherapist for Surgery & Critical Care | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 28 March 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,162 - £44,629 per annum Including HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2024 |
| Location: | Slough, SL2 4HL |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6177304/151-CG-407 |
Summary
Are you dynamic? Are you passionate about working in Critical Care & Surgery? Are you looking to working in a committed, driven team, striving to develop evidence-based practice & embed patient-focused care? If so, we are looking for you to join our expanding Surgical & Critical Care team right now!
Following recent successful business cases we are looking to recruit additional staff into the Critical Care and Surgery Team at Wexham Park Hospital. We are very excited to have the opportunity to further expand the Critical care and Surgical physiotherapy team.
This post offers the exciting prospect of being a core member of the team working in Critical Care & Surgery. This will include inpatient work in Critical Care, Surgical Acute Dependency Unit, General Surgery, plastics & ENT. There will also be opportunities to contribute & collaborate with our award-winning surgical prehabilitation service & our innovative Critical Care Rehabilitation & Follow-up Service.
You will be supported & developed by both your Band 7 Team Leader & our cross-site APP for Critical Care. We are committed to ensuring we deliver high quality, individualised care to patients on critical care & the surgical wards in line with best practice, as well as developing our staff to achieve your career aspirations.
This post holder will work within the team providing surgical & critical care physiotherapy services at Wexham Park Hospital.
They will provide therapeutic clinical expertise & quality advice to patients on critical care & surgery as well as support to the multi-disciplinary team. Clinical supervision, appraisal and teaching of band 5's & students will be core components of this role.
They will demonstrate excellent communication and collaborative working, along with other clinical specialists across the Trust, in order to provide a high quality, efficient service.
With support & direction from their Team Leader & APP they will participate in service development & audit as well as education to both physiotherapists & the MDT.
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Attached you will find the Job Description and Person Specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role.
We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.
This advert closes on Thursday 11 Apr 2024
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