Specialist Acute Rotational Physiotherapist

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated physiotherapist to build on their physiotherapy skills through our Acute Band 6 Rotation for a 1 year fixed term period. Each 6 months rotation is led by strong and supportive senior colleagues with a wealth of experience. You will be a key member in our friendly integrated therapy team and provide a skilled and responsive therapy service.

We are looking for candidates with rotational band 5 experience in a hospital based environment, with strong communication and teamwork skills. You also need to be self-motivated, adaptable and dynamic. There may be a requirement for flexible working times on some rotations; you will also participate in the on-call and weekend rotas throughout the rotations.

We are committed to your training and development of acute specialist skills and clinical expertise and will provide opportunities to participate in training, service development, audit and clinical supervision.

Please note that this vacancy may close early due to the amount of applications we receive.

Main duties of the job

The rotations are:

Medical/surgical: here you will gain specialist experience in respiratory management of a wide variety of patients, developing skills in ITU and critical care and you may have opportunity to treat paediatrics and respiratory out-patients.

Orthopaedics: Here you will assess and treat many orthopaedic conditions including patients who have been repatriated from the major trauma centre. You will also gain familiarity with a wide range of specialist orthotic equipment. There may also be opportunities to treat paediatric orthopaedics and manage patients on our discharge ready ward.

Acute Medical Unit: Here you will develop your assessment and decision-making skills in our short stay admission unit and gain experience in cardiology and exposure to front door services.

Frailty team:Where you will gain experience working in our frailty unit and rapid access clinics, developing close links with the rapid response team and other community services.

The Stroke unit:You will work alongside our specialist neuro team to assess and rehabilitate patients transferred from the local HSAU and develop specialist neuro knowledge and handling skills.We work closely with the ESD team and rehabilitation unit.

Acute older adult wards: Here you will develop skills in risk assessment and the management of complex patients including patients with dementia and work closely with the MDT and families.

About us

This is a great time to join The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we are currently in the process of redeveloping the hospital to provide a state-of-the-art hospital for the residents of Hillingdon, and beyond, which supports the very best in delivery of healthcare and will be fit for our future.

We provide acute and specialist services from two sites to a local population of 350,000. Our services include; accident and emergency services, inpatient care, specialist rehabilitation, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. Hillingdon is situated in North-West London close to Heathrow airport and is the second largest London borough.

Our vision is to be the best general hospital in the country. We are clear that our Vision can only be achieved by our staff, our most valuable asset. We are committed to making improvements for both our patients and our staff which we will deliver through living our CARES values: Communication, Attitude, Responsibility, Equity and Safety.

More information about our Vision and values and how we build theses into our recruitment process can be found on our website.

We value our staff and wherever possible we offer flexible hours, a full range of benefits, on-site nursery facilities and restaurant as well as a wide range of training and career development opportunities. We are proud to say that our staff survey results show that our staff look forward to coming to work here.