Weekend Orthopaedics Physiotherapist

Experienced Physiotherapist in Trauma & Orthopaedics


We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity to come and join our team at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. We are a GOOD accredited hospital following CQC inspection and are looking to employ a forward thinking, dynamic individual as a Band 6 Physiotherapist in Trauma & Orthopaedics.


The post will be operating across both trauma and elective orthopaedic units, which work with individuals with a variety of complex needs.


You will work within the Orthopaedic Physiotherapy team with experienced senior staff and be responsible for a clinical caseload as well as for supervising and developing junior staff and students. You will work closely with the MDT and community teams and contribute to seven day working.


You will work alongside senior colleagues to implement new initiatives to continue to develop the service in line with best practice and clinical guidelines.
The Trauma & Orthopaedic Physiotherapy team at the Royal Berkshire Hospital provides cover across a number of services, including the Elective Orthopaedic and Trauma Units. As a senior member of the team, you will assess and treat patients with a variety of orthopaedic injuries. From a Trauma perspective, this will include neck of femur fractures, upper limb, lower limb, head/brain and spinal injuries. You will also help to rehabilitate patients who are repatriated from the major trauma centres following major trauma. We also cover paediatrics patients admitted after traumatic injuries.


The Elective caseload will include joint replacements and day case surgery across both our adult and paediatric day surgery wards, and the team also covers pre-operative joint schools to prepare arthroplasty patients for upcoming surgery. The post will contribute to the running of our evening Orthopaedic service, as well as weekend working across the Orthopaedic wards. The successful candidate will join the trust at an exciting time during the implementation of a day case arthroplasty pathway in keeping with national service development programmes.
The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest District General Hospitals in the country. The hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1st June 2006.


It was the first Foundation Trust in the South Central Strategic Health Authority.


The Trust has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for 500,000 patients across West Berkshire, an area extending from Newbury in the west to Henley-on-Thames in the east, and including Wokingham and parts of Hampshire to the south and parts of Oxfordshire to the north. The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.


Degree or other recognised qualification in Physiotherapy
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Berkshire Hospital