Job summary
- Main area
- Proactive and Intermediate Care
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-AGB-EMF17807
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £31,469 - £38,308 per annum pro rata for part time INC HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Physiotherapist Community Rotation
Band 5
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic, motivated Band 5 Physiotherapist, newly qualified or looking to progress and build further knowledge and skills in a community setting?
Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit a Full Time rotational Junior Physiotherapist to join our Community Therapy Team in Guildford and Waverley. The rotations currently are MSK out-patients, In-patients (sub-acute ortho-geriatric, frailty), and Community Therapy Team, who see both urgent and general rehabilitation, including patients with neurological impairments. You will be part of a friendly and experienced team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, PTAs and Community Rehabilitation Assistants. You need to be a good team player, organised and motivated with a caring and compassionate attitude. You must be willing to learn to use IT applications to carry out this job effectively. You will need to be able to travel independently between sites and to patients’ homes.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You must be well organised and an excellent communicator and be willing to work flexibly. Good time management skills are also essential. You will assess and treat people in bedded units, in an out-patient setting and in their own homes including using telephone and video calls, and will manage your own caseload of patients. We work closely alongside other community services from health, social and voluntary sectors to provide the best service to enable patients to have the best possible quality of life for each individual.
The post holders will have Professional responsibility for themselves and those who they supervise. They will be expected to contribute to the on-going development of clinical practice, standards, research, as well as policies, protocols, guidelines and service development.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered HCP physiotherapist Relevant degree or equivalent qualification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of NHS placements.
Desirable criteria
- CPD - Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
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
- Madeleine Meakin
- Job title
- Community Therapies Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01483 571122
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