Specialist Rotational Physiotherapist

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Effective written and spoken communication skills
• Demonstrates appropriate use of initiative
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

We are looking for an enthusiastic physiotherapist to join our band 6 acute physiotherapy rotation at St Helier Hospital. The successful candidate will rotate across a variety of clinical areas including respiratory, medical and surgical rehabilitation including renal and amputees, stroke (currently located at Epsom Hospital), trauma orthopaedics, rapid response and elder rehabilitation.
This is an exciting opportunity to further develop your clinical skills in a variety of specialities, within a friendly and supportive team. The successful applicant will have ideally completed core rotations in a band 5 position.
CPD is actively encouraged both within service provision and with externally funded courses. Staff within each team are supervised by senior physiotherapy clinicians supporting staff to achieve learning outcomes within the speciality. There are in-service training within teams and a joint therapy seminar in which you will participate. Service development is actively encouraged and also peer support through regular team meetings.
There is a requirement for all acute physiotherapy staff to participate in the respiratory on call evening and weekend rotas. Staff will also contribute to 7 day working, currently on a 1 in 5 weekend rota basis, as required. This post is based at St. Helier but may include cross site working.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.