Job overview

Are you an experienced Physiotherapist looking for your next career step? Do you have clinical leadership skills and experience in medicine or surgical specialties? Want to enhance your experience across different patients, care settings and develop as a clinical leader in one of the UK’s largest hospital Trusts?

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist to work within our Specialised Medicine Therapy team based across the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and Weston Park Hospital.

As a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist you will be working alongside a team of other Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and support staff, to deliver acute and ongoing care, including early assessment and prevention of deconditioning, urgent respiratory care and supporting plans for timely discharge.

Covering a variety of different wards across the hospitals, this is to chance to work with a wide range of patients across different specialties, including Oncology, Haematology, Surgery and Infectious Diseases. Whilst there will be an opportunity to work across all these specialties as a Clinical Specialist responsible for the below there would be an expectation bias of this role toward Infectious Diseases, Surgery (Urology, Breast and Gynecological) and Pulmonary Hypertension.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

Providing high quality physiotherapy care to medicine patients throughout their hospital stay utilising quality improvement and evidence-based healthcare.

Ensuring the urgent acute physiotherapy needs are met by physiotherapists in the team.

Working closely with the whole team to support patient flow.

Working collaboratively with the Directorates, Clinical Service Manager, Lead Therapist and other Clinical Specialists to achieve the organisation’s objectives

Clinical Leadership of the Physiotherapists in leading on individual specialties and support innovative ideas.

Clinical leadership in the development of skills across professions and to therapy assistants and technical instructors.

Leading on the clinical aspects of developing staff working on integrated Medicine wards.

Sharing developments within and outside the Trust

There will be opportunities for:

Supervision and mentorship of Therapy staff

A variety of teaching/training commitments within the Division and Acute Therapy Services

Organisation of service delivery and selected line management responsibilities

Participation in a range of clinical governance/assurance/management forums.

Networking and benchmark outside the trust.

Working for our organisation

Therapy Services provides a number of services over 7 days (including Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays). Successful candidates will be expected to contribute to these rosters as part of their contracted hours.

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes a firm commitment to professional development of it’s staff together with the provision of an excellent health and well-being support service.

The role offers the opportunity for either a AfC Band 6 physiotherapist, or an existing AfC Band 7, to grow their personal and professional development with both breadth and depth across a framework of clinical practice, education, leadership, and quality improvement & research.

Please note this vacancy is advertised as a permanent contract but a secondment may be considered.

Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.