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Band 6 Physiotherapist in Rheumatology

Job details
Posting date: 22 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 22 May 2024
Location: Weston-super-Mare, BS23 4TQ
Company: University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 6245425/387-DT-5041-TJ

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Summary

A Vacancy at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.


An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated physiotherapist to join our Musculoskeletal Outpatient Therapies Team at the Weston General Hospital site ofUniversity Hospitals Bristol and Weston (UHBW) NHS Foundation Trust.

As a result of supporting a member of staff to go on secondment, we have a fixed term part time band 6 physiotherapist role supporting the Rheumatology pathway in the Musculoskeletal Outpatient Therapies service.

Successful applicants will, manage their own caseload as an autonomous practitioner, providing physiotherapy assessment and treatment. You will work closely with the other members of the outpatient team, Rheumatology Multi-disciplinary team, and mentor band 5 colleagues, therapy technicians and undergraduate students as required.

You will be supported by highly skilled and experienced band 7s and 8a’s across a range of specialities, the wider MSK team and the Adult Therapies MSK Pathway and Divisional Leads. As a teaching Trust we actively promote and encourage lifelong learning. You will have access to a robust in-service training programme, annual development review, coaching and mentoring. We can also support appropriate external training courses.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

We also wish to make candidates aware that for these roles we do not have any funding available to support successful candidates with relocation. As an organisation we will cover the cost of any Certificates of Sponsorships required for full-time posts, though that is the only cost we can support

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This advert closes on Tuesday 7 May 2024

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