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Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist - POPS Team
| Posting date: | 05 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 April 2025 |
| Location: | Canterbury, CT1 3NG |
| Company: | East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7022978/344-2978DCB |
Summary
A Vacancy at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
A rare opportunity has come up to become part of our POPS (Perioperative Care of Older People Undergoing Surgery) Team here at Kent and Canterbury Hospital. This is a relatively new team that are already Nationally recognised for the excellent service they provide to patients.
The post involves delivering prehabilitation in a variety of formats to high risk patients who are due to undergo vascular, urology or orthopaedic elective surgeries. Work could be within outpatients (clinics, gym or hydrotherapy), on the wards or within the community, assessing a patient in their home environment. and will adjust according to patient need.
This would suit a Physiotherapist who has a broad range of experience and is adaptable & dynamic and enjoys a varied client group.
This clinical specialist position offers the exciting prospect of helping to lead the ongoing development of this service collaboratively with a well-established multidisciplinary team.
This post holder will help lead, develop and evaluate the POPS Physiotherapy service at Kent and Canterbury Hospital working alongside colleagues within the vascular, surgical and orthopaedic teams.
They will provide therapeutic clinical expertise, high quality advice and support to the multi-disciplinary team. Clinical supervision, appraisal and teaching including taking students will be components of this role.
They will demonstrate excellent communication and collaborative working, along with other clinical specialists across the Health Economy, in order to provide a high quality, efficient service.
In conjunction with the Clinical and Site Lead they will ensure clinical governance targets are met, including the development of clinical standards and protocols, specialist evidence based practice, audit, research, clinical and non-clinical risk management.
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 695,000 people.
Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: ‘People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’.
We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called ‘We care’. It’s about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We’re looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
The Trust is committed to supporting flexible working to fulfil our pledge as part of The Trust’s People Strategy to help staff to achieve a healthy work/life balance. Please speak with your Recruiting Manager for further information and opportunities.
“Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.”
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in 'supporting documents'.
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Mar 2025
A rare opportunity has come up to become part of our POPS (Perioperative Care of Older People Undergoing Surgery) Team here at Kent and Canterbury Hospital. This is a relatively new team that are already Nationally recognised for the excellent service they provide to patients.
The post involves delivering prehabilitation in a variety of formats to high risk patients who are due to undergo vascular, urology or orthopaedic elective surgeries. Work could be within outpatients (clinics, gym or hydrotherapy), on the wards or within the community, assessing a patient in their home environment. and will adjust according to patient need.
This would suit a Physiotherapist who has a broad range of experience and is adaptable & dynamic and enjoys a varied client group.
This clinical specialist position offers the exciting prospect of helping to lead the ongoing development of this service collaboratively with a well-established multidisciplinary team.
This post holder will help lead, develop and evaluate the POPS Physiotherapy service at Kent and Canterbury Hospital working alongside colleagues within the vascular, surgical and orthopaedic teams.
They will provide therapeutic clinical expertise, high quality advice and support to the multi-disciplinary team. Clinical supervision, appraisal and teaching including taking students will be components of this role.
They will demonstrate excellent communication and collaborative working, along with other clinical specialists across the Health Economy, in order to provide a high quality, efficient service.
In conjunction with the Clinical and Site Lead they will ensure clinical governance targets are met, including the development of clinical standards and protocols, specialist evidence based practice, audit, research, clinical and non-clinical risk management.
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 695,000 people.
Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: ‘People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’.
We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called ‘We care’. It’s about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We’re looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
The Trust is committed to supporting flexible working to fulfil our pledge as part of The Trust’s People Strategy to help staff to achieve a healthy work/life balance. Please speak with your Recruiting Manager for further information and opportunities.
“Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.”
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in 'supporting documents'.
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Mar 2025