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Rotational Physiotherapist | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,964 - £43,780 pa pro rata Incl HCAS (20%) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 February 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | st georges nhs trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6827925/200-NN-6827925-AHP-Y |
Summary
This post is one of our well-established Band 5 Physiotherapy rotations, working as autonomous practitioners with regular supervision from senior therapists. The post holder undertakes independent patient assessment and rehabilitation providing a high standard therapy service to inpatients, outpatients and community services within St George’s University Hospitals Foundation Trust.
Band 5 physiotherapists carry their own caseload of patients within a defined clinical area, which may include complex conditions.
The post holder will assess and treat their own workload of patients and maintain associated patient records utilising knowledge and skills gained through attainment of competencies, experience and relevant qualifications
They are required to carry out clinical tasks (such as instruction / supervision and prescription of individual and group exercise programmes), requiring a wide range of technical ability as well as an excellent level of interpersonal skills.
The post holder works alongside senior physiotherapists to facilitate safe and effective rehabilitation programmes, to educate and encourage patients to maximise their rehabilitation potential and promote self-management using motivational interviewing techniques to encourage positive behaviour change in the client group.
The post holder contributes to 7 day working across the Trust and emergency respiratory on call cover.
The role offers the opportunity to supervise, initiate and participate in evidence-based projects, including recommendations for change in practice.
The vacancy is in neurosurgery and the post holder is responsible for the assessment and acute rehabilitation of inpatients following elective and emergency neurosurgery optimising their recovery from surgery and working closely with the multidisciplinary to plan a safe and timely discharge from hospital.
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
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This advert closes on Thursday 23 Jan 2025
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