Senior Rotational Physiotherapist

Contact information

Please contact the inpatient therapy team leads on  if you require any further information. Alternatively email Eva Hirst () or Shelly Theaker () the inpatient service leads.

Are you a Band 6 who wants to work in more specialised areas? Or an experienced Band 5 Physiotherapist looking to take the next step in your career? Please note this is an advert for a fixed term post to cover maternity leave.

We offer highly specialist 9-month rotations across three sites (Wakefield, Dewsbury & Pontefract) where you can enjoy many different clinical settings and develop a variety of skills.

• Spinal Injuries at Yorkshire’s Regional centre
• Burns Centre – adult & children including critical care
• Respiratory – 20 bedded Critical Care Unit, surgical HDU, acute respiratory and surgical wards
• A&E, Acute Medical Assessment and Frailty Units to stop admission into hospital
• Stroke – Hyper acute stroke unit and rehab
• Neurology Rehab – varying conditions with longer term rehabilitation
• Medical including cardiology, gastroenterology and geriatrics
• Trauma & Orthopaedics – including major trauma, fractured neck of femur and day case

If you are highly motivated, enjoy a challenge and are hard working then this job at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust is the job for you. We are a supportive and forward thinking inpatient therapy service, just waiting for you to join us!

The post holder will provide peer support, supervision to other members of the team, be responsible for the technical instructors and leadership opportunities where appropriate in the clinical setting, overseeing, planning and implementing team objectives with senior support. There will also be opportunity for project work in service development.

In return we offer in-service training, support for CPD both in house and external courses/conferences and a yearly appraisal which focuses on you & your development. We give support in leadership opportunities and encourage you to fulfil your potential. As part of the role, you will be required to take part in the respiratory On Call rota where full & thorough training is given.

We require weekend work as part of the seven day service but offer flexibility in being able to pick weekends, and days off through our e-rostering system.

Please look at our trust website for further information on Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust.

• To provide advanced physio therapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological symptoms associated with in-patient conditions in a broad variety of clinical settings, including Stroke, Neurology, Medical/Elderly, Spinal Injuries, Acute medical Assessment, Critical Care, Respiratory & Burns. The senior clinician will provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individual treatment programme for this patient.
• To provide leadership and support to junior colleagues in the assessment and management of Inpatient clinical conditions.
• To provide peer support, supervision and second opinions to members of the relevant Inpatient teams.
• Participate in seven day service for the wards (select rotations) helping to facilitate discharges and achieve best practice tariffs. Participate in the respiratory (on call) rota.
• To be responsible for technical instructors on duty.
• To provide clinical education of physiotherapy students on placement.
• To undertake a management role where appropriate in the clinical setting, where overseeing, planning and implementing objectives for juniors and assistants as necessary.

• Graduate Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy
• Registered with the HPC
• Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, including attendance at recent and relevant postgraduate courses.
• Portfolio evidence of information learning.

• Comprehensive experience at Band 5 level in a rotational post within the NHS, providing a broad range of experience in core and specialist rotations.
• Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy team and/or multidisciplinary team.
• Recent evidence of On-call and respiratory experience
• Involvement in audit, research and an understanding quality issues.
• Contributing to clinical education of students and training other…