Team Lead Physiotherapist for Medicine and Cardiac Rehab

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Band 7 Physiotherapist within the Medical Physiotherapy team based at The Alexandra Hospital, Redditch. The post is for 31 hrs per week and is available from April 2025 on a peramnent basis.

The post will involve working across the acute medical wards. The main clinical role will be across the Emergency Department and the Acute Medical Unit on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. You will have previous experience of working within in-patient medicine specialties, demonstrate a good broad base of respiratory and complex discharge assessments experience and have the ability to manage a team of staff and students.

You will also be responsible for providing expert physiotherapy support to the Cardiac Rehab Classes at the Alexandra Hospital on a Monday and Wednesday and work closely with the Physiotherapy team based on the Coronary Care Unit.

You will work closely with the other Band 7s within the medical and surgery teams to provide a supportive environment to junior staff.

The post also includes a commitment to the on-call service and requires weekend working as part of the on call rota. You will also be required to be able to travel between sites.

For further information or to organise an informal visit please contact Kate Spolton, Clinical Lead Physio on katherine.spolton@nhs.net

Short listing will take place within 2 weeks of the closing date.

Main duties of the job

Working as an experienced, autonomous practitioner, to provide a high standard of patient focused care through advanced assessment, accurate diagnosis, development and delivery of individual treatment programmes for patients within given speciality.

To take responsibility of own caseload in area of speciality.

To assist in the planning, co-ordination, delivery and evaluation of the physiotherapy service provided at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

To provide supervision, support and education for qualified and unqualified physiotherapy staff, and to other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

To participate in departmental audit and research in support of evidence based practice.

To advise physiotherapists on the physiotherapy treatment and management of patients.

To communicate with the MDT as appropriate to provide comprehensive assessment to determine admission prevention as appropriate to given speciality.

To work alongside the other clinical leads within the speciality to ensure therapy services are delivered and evaluated effectively.

Job responsibilities

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.