A Vacancy at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior physiotherapist to join our elective orthopaedic team. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in both elective and trauma orthopaedic settings. At Wrightington Hospital we see everything from routine total hip replacements to the most complex orthopaedic procedures.
You will have the chance to work with surgeons and specialist therapists who are experts in their field and this gives rise to excellent learning opportunities. There is opportunities to get involved with research, service improvement and we have a well established learning and development programme.
Candidates are required to present original certificates for qualifications at interview stage.
The main duties of the job include
• The physiotherapy assessment and treatment of a wide range of post-operative trauma and elective orthopaedic conditions.
• Opportunities for audit and research.
• Opportunities to watch ground-breaking operations to enhance clinical knowledge.
• To work closely with senior colleagues to develop and enhance current service provision
• To plan for and treat patients with complex needs who require orthopaedic surgery.
• The role also involves the development of other staff in the team and wider MDT, supporting students, supervising junior and unqualified staff
Choose Well – Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
On-Call
Please note that senior positions (AFC band 8A or above) may be expected to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.
• To provide a high standard of physiotherapy service to patients with orthopaedic conditions following trauma or elective surgery.
• To support junior staff both physiotherapists and assistants
• This job will be based at Wrightington on the elective ward but time will be spent at Wigan hospital in trauma as the service requires.
• To act as a source of knowledge on the management of patients presenting with a wide range of orthopaedic conditions and provide an advisory/educational service to patients, relatives, physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals.
• To take a role in the specialist assessment and treatment of patients within the orthopaedic speciality who may have complex and or chronic presentations.
• To hold responsibility for own case load and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case conferences. Access to advice and support from a senior physiotherapist is available if required, clinical work is routinely evaluated.
• To work jointly with staff from social services, hospital trusts, primary care trusts, education, etc., in providing rehabilitation and co-ordinating discharge.
• To educate and train physiotherapists, other health professionals and physiotherapy students in the management of physiotherapy conditions as appropriate in current rotation.
This advert closes on Tuesday 11 Mar 2025