Rotational Physiotherapist | University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

(Please note that this advert will be closed early if it reaches the pre-determined applicant cap of 75)

This is an exciting opportunity to join a rotational scheme with an excellent reputation, a broad range of experiences within a forward-thinking progressive Therapies department with supervision from expert clinicians, clinical academics and clinical leaders.

The rotation scheme offers a structured career progression pathway and includes rotations in the following areas:

• Neurorehabilitation – acute, a tertiary rehab centre, hyperacute stroke ward and early supported discharge after stroke
• In-patient and out-patient trauma within the Major Trauma Centre
• Intensive care – general, surgical, cardiothoracic and neurosurgical
• Acute medicine, frailty intervention in ED
• Acute general and vascular surgery
• Womens and mens health, MSK outpatients
• Oncology and Haematology

• Trauma orthopaedics and plastics
• Respiratory medicine
• Intensive care
• Acute medical, surgical and vascular
• Neurosciences and stroke
• Neurorehabilitation
• Women’s and Men’s Health
• Gerontology
• Oncology, Haematology and Macmillan therapy team

• To assess and treat own caseload of patients, and maintain associated records as an autonomous practitioner with support from senior staff
• To communicate with the relevant members of the multidisciplinary team, other health professionals, patients and carers with regard to the delivery of patient focused care
• To participate in departmental continuous professional development, departmental education and training, audit and evidence-based projects
• To undertake all necessary verbal and written documentation required for patient care
• To actively participate in appraisal and supervision processes
• To be responsible for the maintenance and development of own Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
• To assist in the supervision of physiotherapy assistants and students
• To participate in extended hour working over a seven day period, including overnight emergency on call and weekend working

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH You Tube channel.

• To ensure patient understanding regarding planned interventions and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment
• To gain appropriate advice and liaise with senior staff in relation to the management of more complex patients
• To be able to contribute to the effective working of a physiotherapy team. This will involve working with other team members to manage the work load and to also assist in imparting knowledge to colleagues as required
• To be able to motivate and persuade patients, carers and other staff through effective communication skills (verbal and non-verbal skills) for example, patients with communication difficulties, hearing or sight impairments, memory loss, mental illness or those who may be unable to accept diagnosis
• To demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information to patients, carers and other staff, where there may be barriers to communication i.e. non-English speaking patients, communication impairment, and cognitive impairment, use of interpreters, excess noise or lack of privacy
• To maintain close links through communication and liaison between the…