Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Includes oncall working and seven day working
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (This post will involve on call working and working over seven days)
- Job ref
- 151-NM84
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £48,270 - £54,931 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Team Lead Physiotherapist for Surgery and Critical Care
Band 7
Job overview
Are you dynamic Physiotherapist who is passionate about delivering high quality physiotherapy services to within the field of Surgery & Critical Care? Are you looking to work in a committed, driven team, striving to develop evidence-based practice & embed patient-focused care? If so, we are looking for you to join our expanding Surgical & Critical Care team right now!
This Team Lead post offers the exciting prospect of leading the team working in Critical Care & Surgery alongside a peer. This will include inpatient work in Critical Care, Surgical Acute Dependency Unit, General Surgery, plastics & ENT.
You will be line managed by our Principal Physiotherapist for ICU, Surgery & Orthopaedics & have peer support with your Band 7 colleagues within team. You will also work closely with our cross-site APP for Critical Care & Critical Care Rehabilitation & Follow-up service to ensure our critical care patients experience an excellent level of rehabilitation from critical care admission to discharge into the community.
This post is 0.6 WTE, there is potential for these hours to be worked flexibly over 7 days alongside additional team lead and clinical specialist colleagues. We are also hoping to have the opportunity to offer additional band 6 roles alongside this post so please contact us to come & look around, meet the team or get more information.
Main duties of the job
- This post holder will lead, develop and evaluate surgical & critical care physiotherapy services at Wexham Park Hospital.
- They will provide therapeutic clinical expertise, high quality advice and support to the multi-disciplinary team. Clinical supervision, appraisal and teaching will be key components of this role.
- They will demonstrate excellent communication and collaborative working, along with other clinical specialists across the Trust, in order to provide a high quality, efficient service.
- In conjunction with the Principal, APP and peers they will ensure clinical governance targets are met, including the development of clinical standards and protocols, specialist evidence based practice, audit, research, clinical and non-clinical risk management.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
We have a fantastic CPD department and are able to offer many training opportunities at post graduate level.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Attached you will find the Job Description and Person Specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role.
- We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
- For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Interpersonal skills to include concise and effective verbal and written reports.
- Time management
- Supervisory and appraisal skills
- Teaching skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- At Band 6 level – in relevant clinical area within an acute health care setting.
- Comprehensive post graduate experience in the following clinical areas, General Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgical/ICU, Elderly Care, Neuro,
- Training and supervision to support all physiotherapy staff and students.
- Experience of audit.
Desirable criteria
- Development of a project or service.
- Leadership - first line management
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC Registration
- Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy.
- Evidence of managerial training
- Knowledge of evidence based practice.
- Demonstrate understanding & involvement of Clinical Governance and risk assessment.
- Broad knowledge of health legislation.
- Educators training
Desirable criteria
- CMS/DMS
- Member of relevant clinical interest group
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
- Samantha Laurencine
- Job title
- Principal Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006153852
- Additional information
For further information or for an informal chat about the role/s please contact Samantha Laurencine via [email protected]
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