Rotational Physiotherapist

Main area Rotational Physiotherapist Grade NHS AfC: Band 6

Contract Permanent: Over 7 days to include weekends and On call

Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week

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Employer Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Wythenshawe Hospital

Town Wythenshawe Manchester

Salary £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum (Pro Rata)

Salary period Yearly

Closing 14/04/2025 23:59

Rotational Physiotherapist

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

Rotational Band 6 Physiotherapist

We have exciting opportunities for Rotational Band 6 Physiotherapists at our Wythenshawe site. We are looking for enthusiastic, forward-thinking, and dynamic physiotherapists to join our Band 6 rotations, with the ability to work flexibly and well as part of a team.

You will be able to undertake advanced physiotherapeutic assessments of patients with a diverse and often complex presentation. To have excellent clinical reasoning to develop and deliver individual treatment programs and be able to plan safe and timely discharges. You will manage your own caseload alongside supporting more junior staff, assistants, students, and team leaders.

Rotations are currently 8 monthly and provide a wide variety of clinical opportunities including Cardiothoracic Surgery, Burns and Plastics, General Surgery, Musculoskeletal Outpatients, Stroke Rehabilitation, Orthopaedics, Thoracic Medicine, Cystic Fibrosis, Long Term Ventilation, Complex Health & Medicine, Complex Airways, Community Respiratory Team.

The department is committed to CPD and moving the Government’s initiatives forward. Applicants must have a broad range of postgraduate experience. They should also be enthusiastic, motivated, dynamic, and a team player.

Main duties of the job

1. To help deliver a comprehensive physiotherapy service to patients in the area of specialty that you are working in.
2. To perform advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with a diverse and often complex presentation. You will require excellent clinical reasoning to develop and deliver individual treatment programs and plan appropriate discharges, and be able to prioritise to clinical need.
3. To be responsible for organising and managing your own caseload to meet service need and patient priorities.
4. Be able to support, appraise and educate more junior staff, rehabilitation assistants, and students.
5. Support your team leaders and deputise as required.
6. To have excellent communication skills with patients, relatives, and be able to show empathy and understanding.
7. Work as part of the therapy team and wider MDT demonstrating excellent communication skills.
8. Maintain confidentiality, dignity, and professionalism at all times.
9. To participate in the weekend and on-call rotas as departmental policy.
10. To maintain your professional standards of practice and codes of conduct and ensure any staff under your supervision maintain these as well.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & drive research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

• BSc Physiotherapy MSc or Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy
• HCPC registration
• Evidence of CPD
• Relevant Postgraduate course
• Membership of relevant specialist interest groups
• Member of CSP

Experience

• Previous Postgraduate clinical experience
• Broad Range of postgraduate clinical experience as a Band 5 in a rotational post
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Supervision and education of less experienced staff, assistants, and students
• Involvement with audit and research
• Membership of department/Trust groups e.g. Health and Safety
• Previous band 6 experience

Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with patients, carers, and colleagues.
• Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills – clinical reasoning
• Effective written communication skills e.g. Clinical records, reports
• To be able to maintain safe Moving and Handling
• Good therapeutic handling skills
• Ability to motivate and negotiate to encourage reluctant and challenging patients
• Ability to work as part of a team

Knowledge

• Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for practice
• Well-developed contemporary theoretical underpinning knowledge of physiotherapy
• Knowledge of community services & discharge pathways
• Awareness of the political / national situation

Other

• Participation in on-call and weekend working
• Flexible to meet service delivery needs
• UK Driving licence

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Karen Quinn Job title Physiotherapy Lead Email address karen.quinn@mft.nhs.uk Telephone number 0161 291 5700 Additional information

Laura Cartledge

Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Manager

laura.cartledge@mft.nhs.uk

0161 291 5700