Job Overview Physiotherapy practitioner Band 4 Physiotherapy Department – Wexham Park Hospital 37.5 hours Orthopaedic wards Responsible to: Physiotherapy team lead Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. Main duties of the job Are a physiotherapy technician with hospital inpatient orthopaedic experience. Are interested in the assessment, rehabilitation and onward signposting and referral of patients following admission to the orthopaedic wards. Are excited to manage your own caseload, treating non-complex patients independently. Keen to help develop and supervise a member of staff in the team at band 2-3. We would also consider a band 3 - 4 progressive post in which you would be supported to achieve band 4 competencies. Working for our organisation Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users. Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification attached for this role for further more detailed information. Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria GCSE Maths and English (or equivalent) Desirable criteria Relevant CPD for role Experience Essential criteria Has worked as an orthopaedic in patient physiotherapy assistant in the NHS Has evidence of managing a caseload independently Experience of MDT working Desirable criteria Has worked as an orthopaedic band 3 or 4 technical instructor in the NHS Has evidence of managing a ward independently Able to demonstrate leadership qualities Knowledge Essential criteria Evidence of knowledge of orthopaedic anatomy and physiology Evidence knowledge of risk assessing patients Desirable criteria Management of orthopaedic trauma patients Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities. We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park. We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment. Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future. Apply online now