Team Lead Physiotherapist for Surgery and Critical Care | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £48,270 - £54,931 per annum incl HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 23 July 2025 |
| Location: | Slough, SL2 4HL |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7253992/151-NM84 |
Summary
Are you dynamic Physiotherapist who is passionate about delivering high quality physiotherapy services to within the field of Surgery & Critical Care? Are you looking to work 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!
This Team Lead post offers the exciting prospect of leading the team working in Critical Care & Surgery alongside a peer. This will include inpatient work in Critical Care, Surgical Acute Dependency Unit, General Surgery, plastics & ENT.
You will be line managed by our Principal Physiotherapist for ICU, Surgery & Orthopaedics & have peer support with your Band 7 colleagues within team. You will also work closely with our cross-site APP for Critical Care & Critical Care Rehabilitation & Follow-up service to ensure our critical care patients experience an excellent level of rehabilitation from critical care admission to discharge into the community.
This post is 0.6 WTE, there is potential for these hours to be worked flexibly over 7 days alongside additional team lead and clinical specialist colleagues. We are also hoping to have the opportunity to offer additional band 6 roles alongside this post so please contact us to come & look around, meet the team or get more information.
• This post holder will lead, develop and evaluate surgical & critical care physiotherapy services at Wexham Park Hospital.
• They will provide therapeutic clinical expertise, high quality advice and support to the multi-disciplinary team. Clinical supervision, appraisal and teaching will be key 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.
• In conjunction with the Principal, APP and peers 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.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our threecore 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,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
We have a fantastic CPD department and are able to offer many training opportunities at post graduate level.
• 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 Monday 30 Jun 2025