Job summary
- Main area
- Inpatient Therapists East
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 28 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CHS623
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Inpatient Therapists East
- Town
- Maidenhead
- Salary
- £37,162 - £44,629 per annum, pro rata (incl of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 01/08/2024
Employer heading
Senior Physiotherapist – Wards and Community
Band 6
Job overview
Senior Physiotherapist Band 6- 28 hours per week
Are you an enthusiastic Physiotherapist who would like a Band 6 post within a friendly team? Would you enjoy the challenge of a varied caseload in the community, wards and clinic setting providing rehabilitation for Older Adults?
The successful candidate will have good knowledge, good time management skills and be computer literate. You will bring energy and creativity to trust wide initiatives such as the Ageing Well agenda and implementing relevant NICE guidance.
Are you familiar with Windsor and Maidenhead?
Maidenhead is a Thameside town with small shops and a pedestrianised High Street, a multiplex cinema, health club and 2 Michelin star restaurants. It has excellent motoring links being close to the M4, M40 and A4. Windsor’s town centre offers an attractive mix of quaint old streets below the castle and smart new shops from old family businesses to chain stores. Windsor also has the stunning rural countryside of 4,800 acres of Windsor Great Park, great travel links to the M4, M25, M40 and M3 and is just a short trip from Heathrow international airport and central London.
The service hours are 8am – 4pm.
Main duties of the job
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Clinically you will be working with rehabilitation, medical, palliative, and neurological patients.
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Provide a high standard of physiotherapy for adults living within East of Berkshire
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Accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care, ensuring a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management
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Responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical and management priorities and use of time
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Undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies; use clinical reasoning and analytical skills and manual assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition
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Formulate and deliver an individual physiotherapy management and treatment programme based on a sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and treatment options using clinical assessment, reasoning skills, treatment skills e.g. manual physiotherapy techniques, patient education, exercise classes and other alternative options.
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Evaluate patient progress, continually re-assess and alter treatment programmes in order to progress treatments effectively
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
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Good time management skills
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Registered with the HCPC
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Ability to travel to multiple sites in an efficient manner
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Ability to participate in a 7-day rota.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy
- HCPC Registered
Continuous Professional Development
Essential criteria
- Evidence of CPD including recent relevant course
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience as a junior in a broad rotational post including specialist areas such as orthopaedics, medical, care of the elderly, neurological and musculoskeletal
- Experience working as part of a team.
- Experience in supervising junior staff and students.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the NHS.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Clinical knowledge and skill in relevant area
- Ability to work independently with good use of initiative and ability to take responsibility
- Ability to be able to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments.
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information where they may be a barrier to understanding.
- Good IT skills
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to drive and have access to a vehicle to use for work purposes.
- Ability to work flexibly over 7 days including unsocial hours
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Catherine Jeffery
- Job title
- Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07500 975646
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