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Senior Orthopaedic Physiotherapist/MSK
Chichester Hospital | Physiotherapy | Permanent contract | Full time
Up to £44,750.00 per annum depending on experience
37.5 hours per week
Our Physiotherapy team at Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital and Chichester Fitness and Wellbeing Centre have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Physiotherapist. Continue your journey with us whilst we'll support you to be your best. We are currently looking to recruit a senior physiotherapist who will work within our multidisciplinary team of consultants, nurses, AHPs, personal trainers and rehabilitation specialists to optimise the health and recovery of our patients throughout their treatment.
You will be treating patients from pre-admission, whilst they recover from their surgery as an inpatient, through to follow up as outpatients for post op rehabilitation.
This role will be split across 2 sites, the hospital and gym, providing you with the opportunity to see a range of MSK cases and play a key role in helping our patients achieve, maintain, and recover to the level of health and wellbeing that they aspire to. We offer a 7 day inpatient service so there will be a need to work weekends on a rota basis. Nuffield Health is dedicated to supporting the future workforce and offers placements to physiotherapy students. In this role, you will have the opportunity to be a clinical educator supporting students we have on placement with us at the hospital.
The hospital and the fitness and wellbeing centre are brilliantly placed to support and mentor the successful candidate for this role, alongside our academy training programmes.
As part of the team you will have clinical support available from your Regional clinical lead along with Physiotherapists, with leadership from the management team on site. You will have a CPD budget to encourage you to continue your learning and striving for clinical excellence.
As a Senior Physiotherapist, you will:
Deliver high quality, effective clinical care.
Adhere to our values and beliefs at Nuffield Health, in which we encourage behaviour which is enterprising, passionate, independent and caring
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
It's equally important that you share our values. We believe in putting people first and providing personalised, holistic healthcare. That makes you part of a much wider team, working to create a healthier future for each individual client.
As a Senior Physiotherapist, you will have:
Have a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent, you'll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
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 the general public and other healthcare professionals
Have a wide range of experience in different specialities including orthopaedics and MSK
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. From free private healthcare to gym membership, a cycle to work scheme and more. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.
Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital.
Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital is a 30 bedded hospital within walking distance of the city centre with free onsite car parking. The hospital has two laminar flow operating theatres, a JAG accredited endoscopy unit and two minor treatment rooms in the outpatient department. There is a small radiology department and CT/ MRI services are provided in a mobile unit. Inpatient physiotherapy is provided within the hospital whilst our outpatients attend the fitness and wellbeing centre at Chichester gate for their follow up physio and hydrotherapy treatments.
Our main speciality is orthopaedics. We also care for patients needing treatment within the specialties of gynaecology, urology, general surgery, plastic surgery, ophthalmology max fax, and pain. We provide outpatient services for dermatology, cardiology, neurology, and rheumatology.
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.
It starts with you.