Senior PhysiotherapistNHS

Job summary

Senior Physiotherapist Exeter Hospital | Physiotherapy | Permanent contract | Full time | Up to £45,400 pro rata, depending on experience 37.5 hours per week If you want to make a big impact on the wellbeing of your patients, here's where you can. As the UK's largest Healthcare Charity, we're shaping the nation's health. We support and encourage postgraduate education with access to training, mentoring and career development - so we'll help shape your future, too.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Physiotherapist you will: Deliver high quality clinical care. Adhere to our values and beliefs at Nuffield Health Deliver excellent clinical care that is evidence based, Safe, Effective, Caring, well-led and responsive to our patient's needs. Ensure on-going monitoring of the standard of treatment provided Be compliant with all professional, clinical and integrated governance standards and participate in clinical audit and other quality assurance processes Be expected to work in both an inpatient ward and outpatient clinic setting, with participation on the weekend ward rota.

Job description

Senior Physiotherapist Exeter Hospital | Physiotherapy | Permanent contract | Full time | Up to £45,400 pro rata, depending on experience 37.5 hours per week If you want to make a big impact on the wellbeing of your patients, here's where you can. As the UK's largest Healthcare Charity, we're shaping the nation's health. We support and encourage postgraduate education with access to training, mentoring and career development - so we'll help shape your future, too. As a Senior Physiotherapist you will:

• Deliver high quality clinical care.
• Adhere to our values and beliefs at Nuffield Health
• Deliver excellent clinical care that is evidence based, Safe, Effective, Caring, well-led and responsive to our patient's needs.
• Ensure on-going monitoring of the standard of treatment provided
• Be compliant with all professional, clinical and integrated governance standards and participate in clinical audit and other quality assurance processes
• Be expected to work in both an inpatient ward and outpatient clinic setting, with participation on the weekend ward rota.

To succeed as a Senior Physiotherapist you will:

• Have a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent and you'll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP).
• Have a minimum of 2 years post-graduate experience
• Have post-graduate experience of working in both musculoskeletal outpatients and having worked on an inpatient ward
• Have a high level of musculoskeletal and orthopaedic knowledge.
• Understand and have experience of both the Public NHS and Private healthcare service
• Demonstrate evidence of further professional training and continual professional development, reflecting your desire to develop as a practitioner.
• Be a confident communicator with the ability to engage effectively with patients, the general public and other healthcare professionals.
• Be able to auscultate a chest.
• Be a competent and confident IT user with strong organisation skills.
• Have the ability to prioritise and deal with a varied workload in an effective and timely manner.
• Be expected to work on the wards as part of our team weekend rota

Helping you feel good. We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you. Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today. If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role. Continue your journey with us whilst we'll support you to be your best. It starts with you. For further information please contact: [email protected]

About us

Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital The Exeter Nuffield hospital is based next to the NHS RD&E hospital in Wonford, Exeter. Exeter is a vibrant cathedral city in the heart of the beautiful county of Devon, situated on the river exe and only 10 miles from the coast. The hospital has 2 theatres, as well as a hybrid cardiac catheter laboratory/theatre and an Endoscopy suite. There are two ward areas: an inpatient area with 21 beds and a day-case ward with 12 beds. We also have a busy outpatient department, health assessment service, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and radiology department including an MRI scanner. We specialise in elective orthopaedic and spinal surgery, cardiology including invasive procedures, general surgery, plastics and cosmetic surgery, ENT and gynaecology. The Hospital has a MAKO robot that undertakes some of the joint replacement surgery which we have become well known for.