We are recruiting for a Physiotherapist - Rotational who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We offer excellent opportunities for new graduates and experienced Band 5’s wanting to enhance their skills.
We offer strong professional leadership and rotations across East and North Hertfordshire, working in partnership with Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Deliver a complex package of high quality healthcare including assessment, diagnosis, treatment and advice to patients with various needs in a variety of settings. Participate in the Band 5 Rotational scheme which involves musculoskeletal outpatients, community care, acute orthopaedics, respiratory care including critical care, care of the elderly, acute medicine, stroke rehabilitation and medical rehabilitation.
Assess, diagnose and treat own patient caseload and maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner as well as communicating with relevant medical and nursing staff, social workers, other health care professionals, patients, relatives and carers
Be responsible for own patient caseload and work predominantly without direct supervision. Regular indirect clinical supervision is provided by a more senior member of the team. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case conferences and reflective practices. As well as participating in the physiotherapy emergency respiratory on-call service.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Friday 6 Dec 2024