Senior Physiotherapist MSK Outpatients

The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust has an enthusiastic and dynamic Outpatient team looking to recruit a full time Band 6 Physiotherapist (37.5 hours) on a fixed-term contract until end of April 2027. We are able to offer a varied role with an emphasis on professional development, enabling the successful candidate to progress their musculoskeletal skills to a high level and offer options to gain experience in all areas of MSK practice and management to give the best long term career options.

The Band 6s within the team rotate every 8 months through Spinal, Shoulder, Wrist & Hand, Pain, Rheumatology, Hip, Knee and Foot & Ankle rotations. There are further options to gain experience within Pelvic Health and Occupational Health should you wish. Each rotation is supported by weekly training lead by the relevant Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner (APP) and line managed by an experienced Team Leader.

Further training is available with regular IST either in the form of weekly one hour sessions or educational half days. We also run an optional Friday learning lunch where we review and discuss recent relevant research, podcasts and blogs. On each rotation our Band 6s can shadow MSK or Orthopaedic Consultant clinics and are able to do watched assessments.

Referrals are received from local GP practices, Orthopaedics, Pain Clinic, Rheumatology, Oncology and Maxillo-Facial Consultants. This includes trauma and elective post-operative patients from orthopaedic wards, A&E and fracture clinic. We provide a virtual fracture clinic service 6 afternoons a week, running alongside the Orthopaedic clinics seeing A+E referrals and post-op / fracture clinic patients. We offer all our patients the option for face to face, video or telephone appointments.

The Physiotherapy Department runs a Musculoskeletal APP-led triage service with a number of highly skilled and experienced APPs, providing clinical support and formal and informal training. As a result of this we have superb working relationships with our Consultants and Multi-disciplinary Teams.

As a Band 6 Physiotherapist you will have the opportunity to supervise Junior Physiotherapists, Physiotherapy Assistants, and Physiotherapy Students on placement. As part of this you will be involved in the Junior / Student teaching programme.

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

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Be skilled in clinical reasoning, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients seeking advice from the team leader when necessary.

To build on the wide base of junior experience and to expand clinical reasoning skills and continue to develop their clinical skills further in Outpatients.

Formulate and deliver individual treatment programmes based on evidence based practice (EBP) treatment options.

Ensure that patients give informed consent prior to treatment, work within the legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to give valid consent, gain endorsement from Senior P.T if necessary. Evaluate patients progress, reassess and modify treatment programmes if required. If a patient fails to progress or deteriorates to discuss with Supervisor.

Participate in the induction of new starters

Participate in the appraisal process. Conduct appraisals and objective setting for juniors, TIs, PTAs under their supervision, once they have attended the Trusts appraisal training and their superintendent feels that they are competent.

Liaise with the superintendent to ensure that objectives set in this process support the teams annual plan.

Recognise and monitor any performance issues of staff and report to the superintendent. Take their guidance on the appropriate management.

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