Band 5 Rotational Physiotherapist Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
We are seeking an enthusiastic physiotherapist to join our newly developed rotational programme. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to gain valuable diverse experience within the community working across a number of services delivering care to inpatients, outpatients, and in patient homes.
Rotations are six months and include the Community Respiratory Team, Musculoskeletal Outpatients, Inpatient Intermediate Care Unit, Sub-acute Medical Wards, and Neurological Rehabilitation wards with placements across Birmingham.
This post offers an exciting challenge to work across multiple specialities developing holistic assessment skills to manage a wide range of conditions across different aspects of community healthcare.
This is an ideal opportunity for a dynamic, pro-active clinician to be part of our team requiring innovation and creativity in the post to help shape the future delivery of therapy care.
Key Responsibilities:
1. To be responsible for the clinical diagnosis, assessment and ongoing physiotherapeutic management of In-Patients. Conditions may include complex permanent disabilities, multiple pathologies, life-limiting conditions and challenging and unpredictable behaviours.
2. To provide physiotherapy on the bedded units/gym setting and to undertake assessments of patients in their own homes prior to discharge.
3. To work with and provide support to more junior colleagues, PT students on placement and work experience students.
4. To act as a source of advice and information for colleagues of all disciplines, patients and their carers/relatives.
5. To promote and maintain the ethos of PT in all clinical and professional activities.
IMPORTANT: Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process. Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address.
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to Be Part of Our Team and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
This advert closes on Wednesday 2 Apr 2025.
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