Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

Band 6 - £37,339 to £44,962

Full-time post - 37.5 hours per week

This post is only open for applications for individuals employed within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Care System

Organisations within scope are as follows:

• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
• Southern Health Foundation Trust
• Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
• University Hospital Southampton
• Solent NHS Trust
• South Central Ambulance Service
• Isle of Wight NHS Trust
• Hampshire Hospitals

Are you interested in working in a team that strives to prevent Hospital Related Deconditioning and reduce length of stay? Do you have sound communication skills and a proactive and problem solving approach? Are you passionate about striving for the best possible experience for your patients? We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Physiotherapist within the Medical Therapy team at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth.

We are a large, dynamic and integrated team of qualified Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists, Therapy Associate Practitioners and Therapy Technicians, led by a Team Lead Physiotherapist alongside a Specialist Occupational Therapist. We foster a fun, friendly and supportive working environment.

We work in a fast paced department across a varied caseload on Medically optimised and Acute medical wards (Respiratory, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, General Medicine). The role will provide you with an opportunity to develop both your clinical and leadership skills within different clinical specialities, managing a complex caseload and supporting junior staff and to enhance your skills in supervision of Band 5’s, therapy technicians and students, appraisal, education and service development projects.

Alongside the clinical role of assessment, treatment implementation, discharge planning and onward referrals, we will provide you with opportunities to develop the service and evaluate practice with an aim of delivering the highest quality of therapy service to our patients with a home first approach.

You will be supported by highly skilled clinical specialist staff, receive regular supervision from a named supervisor and will participate in regular therapy in service training as well as having access to external courses. We will support you to progress your career and key management skills.

If you thrive in a complex and fast-paced environment working within the wider MDT then this is the role for you.

Job Description

For further details contact with us to discuss the post or arrange a visit to meet us.

Contact: Name: Isaac Watts, Email: [email protected] Telephone number: 02392 283437

• Health Care Professions Council Registration
• BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy, or equivalent

Experience

• 18 - 24 months post qualification experience
• On-call competency

Respect and Dignity

• Respects the privacy and dignity of individuals
• Demonstrate an understanding of equal opportunities

Quality of Care

• Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of quality of care
• Accountable

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.