Band 5 Rotational Physio

· To provide a high standard physiotherapy service within Frimley Park Hospital Trust
· To participate in CPD and other departmental activities
· The rotational posts of four months include at Frimley Park:
+ Surgical ITU/HDU
+ Medical wards
+ Stroke unit
+ Outpatients-Hydrotherapy/Main Department/Gym
+ In patient Orthopaedics
+ Community team, For full details of the main responsibilities for this role, please refer to the attached Job Description. Some of the key tasks and responsibilities are:
· To be responsible for implementing within your clinical practice the standards and policies in each speciality and where applicable, propose change to working practices.
· To maintain a high standard of clinical care using evidence based practices and evaluate the outcomes.
· To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant specialist clinical workload
· To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients using investigative and analytical skills and seek guidance from senior staff as required.
· To devise an individualised physiotherapy management and/or treatment plan, using clinical reasoning skills to utilise a range of treatment options in formulating a programme of care.
· To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your professional activities working within codes of practice and professional guidelines. This includes patient documentation in professional notes.
· To demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance, clinical risk and to demonstrate the use of treatment plans with an evidence based link.
· To demonstrate physical ability to carry out physiotherapy assessment and interventions including highly developed manual physiotherapy techniques and therapeutic handling. There includes frequent moderate physical effort.
· To keep up to date with clinical developments, analysing current research and discussing and implementing changes in clinical practice.
· To be responsible for the safe use of equipment used in carrying out physiotherapy duties, adhering to the department's medical devices policy. This includes competence and accuracy to use specialist equipment by yourself and other healthcare professionals, carers and patients.
· To participate in the respiratory on-call and weekend rota as appropriate.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
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.

Are you newly qualified and looking for an opportunity to complete a rotational post in a supportive environment. Then we are looking for you.

At Frimley Trust we provide a supportive transition to the workplace, through a 12-month Multi-professional Preceptorship program run by our Clinical Education directorate in collaboration with our, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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