Join Our Dynamic Team as a Senior Physiotherapist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals!
Are you ready to make a real impact in a leading healthcare environment? We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly skilled Senior Physiotherapist to join the Major Trauma and Plastics Inpatient Team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a dynamic, multidisciplinary team that is at the forefront of trauma care.
As a Senior Physiotherapist, you'll play a key role in delivering exceptional clinical services to patients in our Major Trauma and Plastics services. Your expertise may also be called upon to support other areas, including Trauma and Orthopaedic Wards, Vascular Wards, Orthopaedic Clinics, and the Day Case Unit, ensuring that every patient receives the best care possible, tailored to their needs.
We want to hear from you if you have a passion for excellence, a drive for innovation, and a commitment to creating an environment that fosters growth, education, audit, and research. In return, we offer you a platform to expand your skills and broaden your expertise in a cutting-edge healthcare environment, ensuring you grow both professionally and personally.
If you have a can-do attitude, a commitment to delivering compassionate, high-quality services, and a desire to shape the future of trauma physiotherapy, this is your opportunity.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a professional with significant post-graduate clinical expertise in trauma and orthopaedics, ideally with Major Trauma experience, someone who can work independently and confidently within our high-performing team. Your role will predominantly involve direct patient care but also require you to contribute to the leadership and development of our physiotherapy team. You'll help drive service improvements and innovations at both local and regional levels, providing operational support, staff supervision, and mentoring the next generation of physiotherapists.
About us
Why Leeds? Leeds is an exciting, vibrant city offering a fantastic work-life balance, outstanding professional development opportunities, and a supportive community that thrives on collaboration and innovation. Come and be part of something bigger - the chance to make a real difference in patient care while advancing your career!
This role requires participation in a seven-day service, ensuring continuous high-quality care across this specialty.
Ready to take your career to the next level? Apply today!
Job responsibilities
To perform the advanced physiotherapeutic assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients within this specialist field who may have complex physical and psychological conditions and/or chronic presentation. You will play a key role in the development, implementation and evaluation of specialist physiotherapy rehabilitation programmes and packages of care.
As an experienced physiotherapist, the job holder will assist in coordinating the activities of the team ensuring efficient and effective service provision. You will be required to ensure effective communication is maintained at all times, whilst providing training, supervision and clinical expertise to qualified and unqualified staff and students.
As a lead clinician in this specialist role, you will act as a role model to the physiotherapy team, promoting quality evidence-based practice, developing the physiotherapy team and contributing to the effective management of the team in the absence of the Clinical Physiotherapy Manager.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree in physiotherapy or equivalent
* HCPC registration
* Member of CSP
* Relevant validated clinical courses
* Post graduate qualification appropriate to the specialty.
Other Criteria
* Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within formal and informal environments.
* Contributes to the development of services and provides leadership to ensure service provision to specified clinical areas.
* Ability to cope working in a stressful environment including the ability to impart information on a daily basis regarding poor prognosis for rehabilitation.
* Ability to demonstrate an attention to detail.
Experience
* Post graduate clinical experience having worked at a senior level in relevant clinical field
* Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of this area of clinical practice
* Working knowledge of critical appraisal, audit and outcome measures
* Supervisory skills
* Knowledge of research
* Active member of SIGS group
Skills and Behaviours
* Clear vision of role and commitment to specialty
* Forward thinking
* Able to maintain judgement under pressure
* Able to work collaboratively within the MDT
* Committed to personal and team development
* Motivated and enthusiastic
* Confident and able to take responsibility
* Caring and compassionate
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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