Job Description

The Whittington Health NHS Trust



Band 5 Rotational Physiotherapist



Contract - Permanent



Full-time 37.5 hours a week



We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Physiotherapist to become part our therapy team.



The successful candidate will undertake physiotherapy roles across a wide range of rotations including inpatient acute, frailty, orthopaedic, both trauma and elective, A+E and medical admissions units, community services including paediatrics and neuro rehab and MSK.



You will work with close supervision and support, alongside a friendly, open, supportive and experienced therapy team to deliver assessment and intervention for our wide range of patient groups.



Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working in our Trust. Please note that use of AI in applications is monitored and this must be declared in your supporting information.



You will work with close supervision and support, alongside a friendly, open, supportive and experienced therapy team to deliver assessment and intervention for our wide range of patient groups.



Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working in our Trust.



Please read personal specification and carefully to ensure application clearly demonstrates all of the essential criteria. Please provide examples in your supporting information to show how you meet these criteria.



Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this

population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation,

and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.



To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients in own caseload and to seek advice from senior staff as appropriate.

To carry out the assessment of patients as an autonomous practitioner, using clinical reasoning skills to determine a clinical diagnosis and formulate a care plan through utilising a range of assessment skills specific to each clinical area.

To formulate and deliver an individual physiotherapy treatment programme based on a sound knowledge of evidence-based practice.

To formulate and deliver physiotherapy treatment programmes in a variety of settings and as part of a 24/7 service. Settings include: hospital, community, patients' home, as part of a team, as a sole practitioner and as on call physiotherapist.



Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working in our Trust.