Senior Physiotherapist

Nuffield Health Plymouth Hospital | Physiotherapy | Fixed Term | Part time

24 hours per week Up to 36,750 – 46,580 pro rata per annum depending on experience

If you want to make a big impact on wellbeing of your patients, heres where you can. As the UKs largest Healthcare Charity, were shaping the nations health. We support and encourage postgraduate education with access to training, mentoring and career development so well help shape your future, too.

As a Senior Physiotherapist at Nuffield Health Plymouth, youll have a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent and registration with the Health and Care Professions Council. You also have excellent clinical reasoning and rehabilitation skills, and youre committed to developing as a practitioner. Youre a confident communicator, skilled at engaging with all kinds of people. This is a great opportunity to be considered for a post with us working cross any of our 3 sites within Plymouth: the Nuffield Health Plymouth Hospital, Devonshire FWB Gym and Plymouth FWB Gym. There will be a requirement to work a day a week on our inpatient orthopaedic ward and on our rota for weekend inpatient orthopaedic work so experience in inpatients is also desirable on application.

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.

The Role

You will see a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions and post operative cases, playing a key role in helping our patients achieve, maintain and recover to the level of health and wellbeing that they aspire to.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team including nurses, AHPS and consultants in order to optimise the health and recovery of our patients.

The hospital is brilliantly placed to support and mentor the successful candidate for this role, alongside our academy training programmes.

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 patients 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.

To succeed as a Senior Physiotherapist, you will:

Have a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent, youll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.

Demonstrate evidence of a good standard of specialist Musculoskeletal experience

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.

Be able to demonstrate excellent rehabilitation skills.

Be a competent and confident IT user with strong organisation skills.

Have the ability to prioritise and deal with your varied workload in an effective and timely manner.

Its 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.

Supporting your growth .

Were committed to the professional development of all our clinical colleagues. Inside our Learning and Development Academy, youll discover a range of internal CPD courses and online content to support your clinical and professional development. As a Nuffield Health Physiotherapist, youll 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. Thats why weve 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 whats important to you. We value our people and their wellbeing and realise the importance of a work life balance and we want to find the best possible applicants. With that in mind, this is a post with a huge degree of potential flexibility over days, condensed days, evenings, and weekend work possibilities. Candidates are therefore encouraged to contact the Recruiting Manager to discuss anything they may wish to further, to provide any covering letter and arrange an informal visit if they require. Please email ruth.andrews@nuffieldhealth.com or call 01752 761819

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, its a good idea to apply right away to ensure youre considered for this role.

It starts with you.