Rotational Physiotherapist

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

We have Band 5 vacancies in the popular rotation between Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare (HIOW - (previously Solent)  Foundation NHS Trust - representing a truly integrated acute and community rotational scheme.

There is currently a huge variety of rotations including opportunities on Intensive Care, Urgent Care, Ortho, Medicine, surgery,  Older persons medicine, Neuro services, rehabilitation, Community care, Rapid Response, and MSK services at a variety of settings within HIOW Trust, across Portsmouth and Southampton as well as the Queen Alexandra Site. To start or develop your career, there is no better way. You will have the opportunity to work with highly expert and specialised clinicians who will teach you the skills you need, to deliver excellent patient care and progress your career. As such, we are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic physiotherapists to join our Teams.

If you have excellent communication skills, good patient handling skills, evidence of CPD plus relevant clinical experience, from a previous post or from student placements, we would be interested to hear from you.  We will develop your knowledge and skills in many aspects of patient care, lead you, teach you and develop you with the wide variety of specialities and areas open to you.

We have a comprehensive competency, clinical supervision and CPD programme supported by highly skilled Team Leaders, Senior Specialist Staff and practice educators.

Job Summary

• To assess and treat own workload of patients / clients and maintain associated records
• Participate in CPD and other departmental activities
• Supervise assistants / technicians and students as appropriate.
• Participate in departmental research / audit
• Participate in the AHP and Nursing Preceptorship Programme including the research project.
• Rotational post based around the Portsmouth and Solent Health economy - the ability to get to rotational bases is essential

Personal statements are essential for us to shortlist this popular rotation – please ensure you add this to the communication section of the smart recruiters website on application.

Please contact Jo Quickenden - [email protected] if you would like to know more about the role.

Please see Job description for further details

• BSc / MSc in Physiotherapy completed or within 4 months of completion
• Health Professions Council registration (or intent to apply for if yet to graduate)

Skills and Knowledge

• Casehold patients and support the assessment and treatment of a range of patients. 
• Work as part of the MDT in progressing patients towards their rehabilitation goals / discharge destination
• Participate in the training and development programme to both impart and gain knowledge
• Contribute ideas and energy to developing our service for our patients and their relatives
• Support the continued development of a culture that facilitates cross boundary working across registered professionals.
• Demonstrate fast decision making and sound clinical reasoning to maximise patient outcome whilst also evaluating risk and maintaining flow. 
• Concise and accurate record keeping

Experience

• Documented evidence of clinical placements and CPD
• Use of functional assessment and activity analysis
• Undertaking literature review/research

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.