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.



Whittington Health delivers health care to the residence of North Central London; both in the community and through the Whittington Hospital.



The Physiotherapy service covers a broad range of services and staff on the band 5 physiotherapy rotations have the chance to gain experience in adult and paediatric community physiotherapy, including neuro rehab, musculo-skeletal out-patients, acute hospital Care of Older People wards, Intensive Care Unit, acute Surgical, Medical and Orthopaedic wards. This rotation also includes an orthopaedic rotation at the elective orthopaedic hub at UCLH.



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 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.



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