Job overview

Applications are invited from enthusiastic candidates for a Specialist physiotherapist to work within the Hillingdon Trauma and Orthopaedic Team. This post is based at Hillingdon Hospital. 

This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience in working within an integrated therapy team and continue to develop strong multidisciplinary working within a dynamic acute setting. There is scope to develop new services and formulate new care pathways for patients within a supportive and friendly department and with our Hillingdon Health Care 
Partnership.
This post would suit a therapist with extensive acute experience working within an inpatient Orthopaedic setting with both Trauma and Elective patients. The team also cover orthopaedic day cases, inpatient orthopaedic paediatric patients and outpatient adult amputees, they also hold the bleep for ED for appropriate patients. Ideally they should have 
a strong orthopaedic knowledge base, be effective with early walking aids and prosthetic rehabilitation, and have good clinical assessment skills and experience working as an autonomous practitioner as well as part of a team.
The appointee will join the existing multi-disciplinary team, and work in conjunction with their therapy team across Medicine, Surgery and Orthopaedics. 

Main duties of the job

• To provide highly specialised physiotherapy assessment and treatment for adult patients with complex needs, with an emphasis on inpatient Trauma and Orthopaedics.
• The orthopaedic team also treat day surgery cases outpatient Adult Amputees and Orthopaedic paediatric patients
• To provide a specialised resource for other physiotherapy staff and health care professionals.
• To provide professional and clinical leadership within the Trauma and Orthopaedic therapy team and wider integrated therapy service structure contributing to the continuous development of the service. 
• To work with the team lead and other senior therapists in the planning and coordination of the therapy services provided to patients across the inpatient setting.
• To undertake delegated responsibilities to support the Therapy Lead in day-to-day service operation, evaluation and development.
• Regularly provide formal and informal, on-going training and education to physiotherapy staff, medics, other healthcare professions and students.
• Engage in own continued professional development (CPD) and service development.
• Ensure clinical audits are undertaken to completion and learning and next steps communicated. 
• Participate in the weekend working rota and on call respiratory service.

Working for our organisation

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust’s services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this – particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,
community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals
provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.