Physiotherapist (Medical Rehabilitation)

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Physiotherapist with a broad range of skills and knowledge to jointly lead a busy team of therapists across our medical and care of elderly wards The caseload involves a mixed caseload of medical and trauma patients, with a focus on falls and frailty. The post holder will also be part of the respiratory on-call service.

Main duties of the job

Band 7 Lead Physiotherapist for Medical Rehabilitation

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Physiotherapist to join our Medical Rehabilitation team based at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. The successful candidate will work alongside the Occupational Therapist team lead to ensure a timely and effective service is provided that meets the needs of our diverse population. Possessing a broad and comprehensive knowledge gained through junior rotations in a range of specialities, you will provide clinical leadership to more junior members of staff, and will ensure that our PROUD values are exhibited daily in all that you return for your hard work, the trust is committed to developing its staff, and you will be given opportunities to further both your clinical and leadership capabilities in line with service needs. Supported by the Clinical Lead, you will be encouraged to develop new initiatives and solutions to improve patient care, and will interface regularly with a multitude of professions both internal and external to the acute site.

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute towards weekend and respiratory on call working, and will be required to work flexibly across a rota with varied start you think that you align with our values, and can help us to deliver outstanding patient care, then we'd love to hear from you.

About us

About the Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for -our staff says they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'. We've also been awarded an'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for detailed information about the role. Further information about the trust can be found on our website at

Person Specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

Msc, BSc or Diploma in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy

HCPC registration

Evidence of CPD and relevant post graduate courses

Desirable

CSP membership

Relevant post graduate qualifications

EXPERIENCE

Essential

Clinical experience of general medical, neurology, respiratory, surgical, orthopaedics and MSK

Evidence of active participation in and delivery in-service training programmes

Evidence of appraisal, clinical and professional supervision and teaching of qualified therapy staff, therapy assistants, students and other members of the MDT

Broad clinical experience in an acute hospital setting at Band 6 level

Evidence of contribution to an out of hours/weekend service

Evidence of MDT working

Desirable

Experience of taking on leadership responsibilities within a healthcare setting

Evidence of involvement in service improvement

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE - SPECIAL

Essential

Advanced clinical reasoning skills within frailty, older adults and emergency medicine

Evidence of team leadership and ability to monitor the workload of the team

Knowledge of the challenges of working in an acute hospital setting

Self management skills -time management, organisation and prioritisation

Advanced communication skills

Evidence of CPD and reflective practice

Awareness of clinical governance and risk management

Desirable

Evidence of participation in research or audit

Evidence of wider responsilities, eg commitee membership