Band 5 Rotational Physiotherapist

We currently have an opportunity for a physiotherapist to join our rotations at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (ASPH). Applications are welcome from physiotherapy students due to qualify, qualified therapists waiting for HCPC registration or those who already have experience and are looking to embrace something new. Flexible working requests will be considered at the point of interview. Our rotations are 4 months in duration and include:

• General Medicine and short stay wards
• Emergency services and admission avoidance
• Critical care
• Surgery
• Cardiorespiratory medicine
• Trauma orthopaedics
• Elective orthopaedics
• Hyper-acute/acute stroke unit
• Neuro-rehabilitation at the Bradley Unit (based in Woking Community Hospital)
• Stroke Early Supported Discharge (community-based)
• Paediatrics (in-patient and out-patient across 3 sites)
• MSK outpatients (across 4 sites)
• Pelvic Health
The rotations will offer you the opportunity to work within different settings and with varied MDT professionals allowing you to develop your core clinical skills and interpersonal communication skills. There is an established formal supervision and appraisal process as well as robust in-house training within each team. The therapies department vision is to develop our own staff to progress their career. ASPH offers a seven-day service across some teams and you will be expected to participate in seven day working as per service requirements.,
• Manage an inpatient caseload including using respiratory, medical, neurological and orthopaedic skills
• Complete patient assessments in a ward setting, formulate problem lists and provide appropriate therapy input to facilitate a safe discharge
• Contribute to board rounds or problem patient sessions to ensure that patients get the right treatment, at the right time in the right place
• Communicate with fellow therapists and other MDT members such as nurses, consultants, specialists
• Treatment and management of patients requiring post-operative protocols and ensuring that patients follow their elective rehabilitation pathways.
• Work within a MSK setting, either hospital, community gym or virtual working from home.
• Clinically assess patients of all ages, create differential diagnosis and shared treatment plan with patients' towards their personal goals.
• Manage MSK classes and hydrotherapy, both face to face and virtual, to provide evidence based exercise and education to support self-management.
• Support our orthopaedic clinics that include ponseti, DDH and serial casting treatment.
• Actively participate in regular supervision and service development, and take personal responsibility in your professional development and professional registration requirements
• Show passion for providing a high level of care and safeguarding to patients known to our service.
• Have the ability to use initiative, communicate with empathy and be an effective team player.
  
  Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey. We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with our strong commitment to staff health and wellbeing. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.