Job overview

An exciting opportunity is available for a  physiotherapist with occupational health experience  to join a friendly, and supportive team in the Occupational health department at Salisbury Foundation Trust.  You will be invaluable in helping to improve the health and wellbeing of our NHS work staff and help the Trust with its commitment to fulfilling the NHS People Plan and People Promise.

Occupational Health Physiotherapists utilise their skills to accelerate workers recovery from, or self management of, their musculoskeletal conditions and thereby assist their ability to undertake their jobs efficiently and effectively. You will also play a key role in helping to prevent or reduce sickness absence from musculoskeletal disorders. 

You will also play a key role in helping to prevent or reduce sickness absence from musculoskeletal disorders.,by providing early and easy access to high standard, highly specialist Physiotherapy assessment and phased return to work program's.

Provide expert advice to and work closely with General Practitioners, Occupational Health Physicians, Occupational Health Nurses and Line Managers regarding individuals’ fitness to work/return to work and provide workplace ergonomic assessments to prevent/reduce risk of musculoskeletal injury to staff and patients

To find out more about the role,  informal chats or informal departmental visits are welcomed.

Main duties of the job

      To be responsible for the operational management and clinical leadership of the Occupational Health (OH) physiotherapy service in conjunction with the Head of Occupational health .

     To use expert physiotherapy knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide specialist support and advice to the physiotherapy  team and other healthcare staff  and to manage their own caseload of patients with highly complex conditions as an autonomous practitioner

      To ensure a high quality, effective OH staff physiotherapy service.

      To be a member of the Physiotherapy Department Management team, contributing to planning and policy development in the Inter- professional team and department

  To deputise for the Inter-professional Lead as required

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service.  We think working here is pretty rewarding.  You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme. 

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything.  With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible.  Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk