Bank Orthopaedic Physiotherapist

At Bupa, you'll have the freedom to develop new lines of care, with the flexibility and development opportunities to push your career further. As an Orthopaedic Physiotherapist, you'll be eager to continue learning and building skills while working with talented colleagues. Your role is to deliver "best practice" care to a wide variety of corporate and personal clients following Bupa clinical governance. You will provide a client-centred and evidence-based service to adult and very occasionally older paediatric inpatients to continue their therapy care on weekends and bank holidays. You will provide therapy for patients with oncology, neurological and general rehabilitation needs. . You'll help us make health happen by:

• Being responsible for the physiotherapy management of the patient load assigned to you and to practise as an accountable professional.
• Using reflective practise and clinical reasoning in undertaking specialist assessments in order to provide an individualised treatment programme for each patient in concurrence with the main physiotherapist's plan during the week.
• Maintaining accurate, comprehensive and timely patient treatment records and also to record reasons if a patient was not seen.
• Managing clinical risk within your caseload at all times and ensure potential clinical risk is effectively communicated and managed.
• Liaising with nursing staff and assess or deal appropriately with any new admissions that are not on your handover list.
• Communicating the addition of new patients during the weekend to a relevant weekend or weekday Physiotherapist.
• Providing other weekend colleagues with assistance as your caseload and clinical competence allow.
  
  Current registration with HCPC and CSP.
• Extensive post-graduate working experience in musculoskeletal medicine.
• Post-graduate qualifications preferential e.g. appropriate MSc, MACP.
• Experience of treating private patients and sports injuries.
• Excellent customer service skills and an understanding of the drivers of service excellence.
  
  We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them. At Bupa we strive to ensure all our of customers, patients and staff are safe. All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately.

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits. Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
• Discounted private medical insurance to help you keep fit and healthy
• Various family friendly benefits and discounts online from shopping, entertainment, eating out and insurance cover.
• Subsidised staff canteen and coffee shop lead by expert caterers.
• Subsidised gym membership to aid your physical and mental wellbeing