Physiotherapist

Job summary

We have an opportunity for a Band 5 Physiotherapist to join our friendly, innovative and dynamic Therapy Team. Are you a new graduate or existing Band 5 looking for the next step in your career, to develop your leadership skills and consolidate your clinical knowledge? Or are you a physiotherapist looking to return to practice?

Working across the fast paced environments of ED through to the respiratory community team, or from intensive care through to orthopaedic trauma wards we have rotations to suit everyone.

We offer the opportunity to gain clinical development in a variety of areas: Accident & Emergency, Urgent Care Wards Acute Medicine Orthopaedics - trauma , day case and elective Critical care and ICU, Respiratory Wards Fracture Clinic We offer an established preceptorship programme for new graduates, extensive on-call and respiratory simulation training in our simulation lab, a Band 5 Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy development forum and mentorship to support your career development.

Main duties of the job

To provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme. To plan and prioritise own patient caseload, working with direct support of a senior member of staff. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions and peer review. To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner. Assist in audit and/or research projects to further own and team's clinical practice within each rotation. To provide high quality, evidence-based care across the seven day service and participate in the oncall rota for adults, children and young people as the service requires.

About us

Please submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close adverts once sufficient applications have been received. We recognise that AI tools can support application writing; however, candidates are asked to keep their use to a minimum. Responses should reflect your own experience, skills and knowledge, as over-reliance on AI-generated content may result in generic answers that do not accurately represent your abilities.

University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence.

Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs. Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Job responsibilities

If you are a Physiotherapist looking to return to practice - we have an exciting initiative to be able to provide a return to practice Band 5 physiotherapy post for physiotherapists who have had relevant previous experience in an acute setting and are ready to begin their return to practice.

We will support you with experience working in different clinical settings andcompetencies to enable you to successfully complete your return to practice and re-registration with HCPC. You will initially be paid as a pre-registration Band 4 for 6 months until your return to practice process is completed and you have successfully gained your HCPC registration, when you will be re-graded as a Band5 within the team.

All band 5 posts offer the opportunity to acquire specialist skills across the clinical settings, these posts are ideal in not just developing your clinical skills but developing key leadership roles in the service. The post is full-time, all physiotherapists work across 7 days with the addition of overnight on-calls 7 days a week.

You will need to be a car driver or be able to travel to the trust within 45 minutes when responding to oncalls (24 hours). For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the