Senior Physiotherapist

Job description

Senior Physiotherapist

Nuffield Health North Staffs Hospital | Physiotherapy | Permanent | Full time

Competitive salary, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

We offer flexible working, freedom to focus on patients, and everything you need to take your career further. With senior mentoring, academy training - and our partnership with the Manchester Metropolitan University partnership - you could progress to a clinical role or managerial position.

Nuffield Health is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Physiotherapist to join the team at North Staffordshire Hospital and Stoke Fitness and Wellbeing Centre. You will see a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions from sports to workplace related injuries and will play a key role in helping our patients achieve, maintain and recover to the level of health and wellbeing that they aspire to.

The role is based across both the hospital and gym sites - at the hospital you will work within a multidisciplinary team to provide inpatient elective orthopaedic care. At the fitness and wellbeing centre, you will manage a clinic of post-operative orthopaedic and general MSK outpatients. You can treat your patients utilising state of the art gym equipment and rehabilitation facilities. You'll work within an MDT which includes fitness professionals through to specialist Consultants.

We believe in our people and to help you develop your skills and progress your career in Nuffield Health you will be supported by your regional clinical lead, have protected CPD time, access to a local in-service training program and training events organised by the Nuffield Health Academy including both clinical and leadership courses.

About the Role:

• You will need to deliver high quality, effective clinical care. We strongly adhere to our values and beliefs at Nuffield Health, encouraging behavior which is enterprising, passionate, independent and caring.

• The role would suit individuals with a desire of making a positive impact across a large workforce, while looking to create & build client relationships within a corporate setting.

• We encourage flexible working, which can include triage working from home and flexibility with shift patterns.

The Main Clinical Duties and Responsibilities:

• 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.

Your Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Values:

• With a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent, you'll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. You will have evidence of further professional training and continual professional development, reflecting your desire to develop as a practitioner.

• You'll be a confident communicator with the ability to engage effectively with the general public and other healthcare professionals. With a commitment to the use of evidence-based practice, you'll also be able to demonstrate excellent manual therapy skills.

• We expect you to be a competent and confident IT user and to be well organised - you'll have the ability to prioritise and deal with your varied workload in an effective and timely manner.

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.

Why Nuffield Health?

At Nuffield Health, we help people live life to the full - not only our patients and clients, but our employees too. With our support, training, generous benefits package and respect for balance, you too can make the most of everything in life.

This is an exciting time for us and it could be for you too.

Supporting your growth.

We're committed to the professional development of all our clinical colleagues. Inside our Learning and Development Academy, you'll discover a range of internal CPD courses and online content to support your clinical and professional development. As a Nuffield Health Physiotherapist, you'll also enjoy opportunities to apply for funding support towards your relevant CPD activity and postgraduate study. Plus, you can access further professional development opportunities via the large number of apprenticeship programmes we offer.

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. With a cycle to work scheme, online GP, emotional wellbeing support and private healthcare - 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.

It starts with you.