Specialist Physiotherapist - Surgical

The Role

This full-time, band 6 physiotherapy post within surgical and critical care at University Hospital Wishaw represents a fantastic opportunity to join a high performing, supportive and proactive team. The surgical physiotherapy team covers critical care, general surgery wards and amputee outpatient service. The team focuses on quality service delivery, patient centred interventions and team well-being.

You will get the opportunity to clinically supervise band 5 physiotherapists and physiotherapy support workers, and provide clinical education to physiotherapy students on placement. The successful candidate will join the on-call physiotherapy rota for UHW.

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

• Registered Physiotherapist with valid HCPC Registration
• Educated to/working towards/operating at Degree Level
• Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice.
• Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies and procedures associated with the speciality/area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within speciality / area of practice.
• Leadership skills to enable the day to day management of service delivery.
• Further education/evidence of Continuous Professional Development in area of speciality including study days/courses/post graduate qualification
• The post holder will possess excellent team-working/leadership skills and have the ability to motivate others and work using own initiative
• Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Effective time management skills
• Working knowledge of basic information technology

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

• Member of CSP
• Membership of relevant special interest group
• Experience in multi disciplinary working
• Experience in research and audit
• Experience or interest in specialist area as detailed in role profile for this post

Permanent

Full time

37 hours

This role will be based in Physiotherapy Department within University Hospital Wishaw.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

If you're looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Angela McCusker, Team Lead Physiotherapist via Angela.

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For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Nicole Hetherington, Recruitment Administrator on nicole.hetherin (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire's benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• Occupational health services
• Employee counselling services
• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you're looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

• Posts close at midnight on the indicated date. However, if there are a high level of interest in this position we may close the advert once sufficient applications are received.…