Job Description
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Physiotherapist based at Herts & Essex Hospital in Bishops Stortford. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering a complex package of high-quality healthcare, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment and patient-centred advice for individuals with a wide range of needs such as orthopaedics, care of the elderly and neurology. You will support patients, carers, relatives and multidisciplinary colleagues by providing expert clinical guidance, education and recommendations to ensure safe and effective care. In addition, you will deputise for the Lead Therapist when required, contributing to service delivery, decision-making and high clinical standards across the unit.
Main duties of the job
As a Specialist Physiotherapist, you will manage a substantial and varied clinical caseload, applying advanced theoretical knowledge and practical expertise to deliver high-quality interventions. You will be responsible for supervising, teaching and assessing junior physiotherapists, technical instructors and students, ensuring high standards of practice across the team. The role involves regular communication with multidisciplinary colleagues, including medical and nursing staff, social workers and other healthcare professionals, as well as engaging with patients, relatives and carers to support safe and effective care. You will also take an active role in ongoing professional development, contributing to departmental training initiatives, and participating in audit and research activities to support service improvement.
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges
Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave
Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want
Job Roles & Responsibilities
- To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own clinical work, ensuring a consistently high standard of physiotherapy care for all patients under your management.
- To hold clinical responsibility for a designated caseload, organising and prioritising workload efficiently and effectively, and undertaking comprehensive and where appropriate standardised assessments addressing all functional mobility issues.
- To formulate soundly reasoned prognoses and recommend the most appropriate course of intervention, developing patient-centred goals that promote engagement in self-maintenance, productivity and leisure to achieve safe discharge.
- To facilitate and deliver educational and rehabilitative group sessions, continuously evaluating and modifying treatment programmes in response to individual patient need and clinical risk.
- To maintain thorough, accurate and timely assessment and treatment records in accordance with legal, departmental and Trust requirements, contributing to evidence-based audit and research to enhance practice.
- To contribute to service development through compliance with organisational policies, acting as a Champion for specific service areas, supporting in-service training programmes, and leading aspects of practice improvement as required.
Person Specifications & Qualifications
- HCPC-registered PT
- Experience supervising staff/students
- Competent with electronic patient records
- UK driving licence/car
- SystmOne experience is desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
NHS Professionals Limited
Location
Hertfordshire & Essex Community Hospital,
Cavell Drive, Bishop's Stortford,
Hertfordshire, CM23 5JH
