Band 5

Are you looking to start or take the next step in your physiotherapy career?

Join our friendly and forward-thinking Therapy Team at West Herts, where you'll have the opportunity to grow and develop across a range of exciting clinical specialties.

We're offering a fantastic Band 5 rotational post designed to build your confidence, broaden your experience, and support your development as a physiotherapist.

You'll rotate every four months across a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings, including: Elderly Care, Medicine, Respiratory including ITU, Surgical (including Amputees), MSK Outpatients, Paediatrics, Acute Stroke Unit, and Orthopaedics – trauma and elective.

You'll be fully supported by a highly experienced and welcoming senior team, with regular supervision, preceptorship, appraisals, and access to In-Service training. You'll also gain valuable experience in supporting therapy assistants and working within a multidisciplinary environment.

The department operates a 7-day service, and this role includes participation in the weekend rota (approximately 1 in 6 weekends), with corresponding rest days provided during the week. The core working hours are Monday to Friday, 08:15 – 16:30.

Please note: this post also includes participation in the evening respiratory on-call rota.

NHS experience is essential.

West Hertfordshire NHS Trust is a busy acute district general with most of the main caseload now centralised at the Watford General Hospital site, with the exception of the elective orthopaedic service which is at St Albans City Hospital and the Physiotherapy Outpatient service which is based at Jackets Field in Abbots Langley.

As a Trust we have one of the largest Acute Assessment Units which provides opportunities to provide rapid but comprehensive assessments to help support patients to the most appropriate place of care.

The teams have established strong relationships with our community bedded counterparts and community team colleagues, including rapid response and early supported discharge for stroke, to enable best patient care.

We additionally have a Frailty Unit service and delirium recovery pathway. We have a 19 bedded ITU offering opportunities to enhance critical care management both in respiratory and rehabilitation.

With a new hospital planned for Watford, work underway to update theatres at St Albans City Hospital and plans for a neighbourhood healthcare centre in Hemel Hempstead, this is an exciting time to join us.

We are building on the success of our award-winning virtual hospital and re-imagining models of care, working closely with partners and making the most of advances in digital healthcare.

Staff wellbeing and development are a priority, as is the role of innovation in improving clinical care, outcomes and patient experience.

Our vision is Excellent patient care, together and our values are to be empowered, compassionate, professional and inclusive. They capture an important balance across what we must all do as individuals and to support others.

We offer a variety of flexible working options as we recognise the importance of a good work life balance.

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To deliver a complex package of high-quality healthcare including assessment, treatment, and advice to patients with various needs.

To assess and treat own caseload of patients and maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner.

To communicate with relevant medical and nursing staff, social workers, other health care professionals, and patients' relatives and carers who may be in direct contact with the post holder with regard to patient care in order to facilitate a team approach to patient care.

To actively participate in Continuous Professional Development and departmental educational and training activities.

To have clinical supervision on a regular basis by a more senior member of the team. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case conferences, and reflective practices.

To undertake the out of hours on-call duties overnight and at weekends (working autonomously).

To actively participate in working over a seven-day roster, fulfilling contractual hours.