Senior Physiotherapist

This Band 6 senior physiotherapy post sits within the orthopaedic team at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, based mainly in the new Cancer and Surgery Innovation Centre. The work centres on assessing and rehabilitating elective orthopaedic patients before and after surgery, within a multidisciplinary team. The post runs across an extended-day service of 08:00 to 20:00 and seven days a week, with an emergency respiratory on-call rota and some exposure to trauma and orthogeriatric caseloads.

HCPC and CSP registration are required to apply.

• Assess and manage elective orthopaedic patients, including pre- and post-operative care
• Deliver high-quality rehabilitation to orthopaedic patients, primarily in the new Cancer and Surgery Innovation Centre
• Support timely patient recovery and discharge across the extended-day and seven-day service
• Provide physiotherapy to relevant patients in inpatient, outpatient and patients' home settings
• Undertake a defined clinical caseload
• Provide clinical supervision to Band 5 physiotherapists, technical instructors, physiotherapy assistants and students
• Support the team in organising an efficient, co-ordinated physiotherapy service
• Ensure patient and service standards and priorities are met
• Take part in the emergency respiratory on-call rota
• Gain experience across the wider orthopaedic service, including trauma and orthogeriatric caseloads

• BSc Physiotherapy

• HCPC registration
• CSP registration

• Previous acute NHS experience at Band 5 level
• Previous senior experience in orthopaedics and/or surgery
• Completion of core junior rotations, including medicine/elderly care, surgery and orthopaedics
• Achieved core skills in all core Band 5 rotations, including respiratory

• Excellent communication and team working skills
• Evidence of knowledge base in orthopaedic and post-operative management

• Membership of a specific interest group
• Postgraduate qualification in orthopaedic physiotherapy or post-surgical rehabilitation
• Previous senior experience in orthopaedics and/or surgery

• High cost area supplement included in pay
• Regular clinical supervision
• Comprehensive in-service training programme
• Opportunities to develop senior clinical and leadership skills through supervision, audit, quality improvement and service development
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing programme
• Career development support
• Support from an experienced physiotherapy team