Clinical & Medical

Senior Physiotherapist

Senior Physiotherapist

Nuffield Health Wessex Hospital | Physiotherapy | Fixed Term Contract - Maternity Cover | Part time |

Up to £41,000 per annum (pro rata), depending on experience

31 hours per week

If you want to make a big impact on wellbeing of your patients, here’s where you can. As the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity, we’re shaping the nation’s health. We support and encourage postgraduate education with access to training, mentoring and career development – so we’ll help shape your future, too.

As a Senior Physiotherapist at our hospital, you’ll have a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent and registration with the Health and Care Professions Council. You also have excellent clinical reasoning and rehabilitation  skills, and you’re committed to developing as a practitioner. You’re a confident communicator, skilled at engaging with all kinds of people.

As part of the team you will have clinical support available from your Regional clinical lead along with Physiotherapists, with leadership from the management team on site. You will have a CPD budget to encourage you to continue your learning and striving for clinical excellence.

We encourage flexible working, which can include triage working from home and flexibility with shift patterns.

The Role

You will see a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions from sports to workplace related injuries and will play a key role in helping our patients achieve, maintain and recover to the level of health and wellbeing that they aspire to.

The role is based in the Outpatient Physiotherapy department within Wessex Hospital,  where you can treat your patients utilising state of the art gym equipment and rehabilitation facilities. You will work within a multidisciplinary team including fitness professionals and clinicians to optimise the health of our patients.

The hospital is brilliantly placed to support and mentor the successful candidate for this role, alongside our academy training programmes.

As a Senior Physiotherapist, you will:

• Deliver high quality, effective clinical care.

• Adhere to our values and beliefs at Nuffield Health, in which we encourage behaviour which is enterprising, passionate, independent and caring.

• Deliver excellent clinical care that is evidence based, Safe, Effective, Caring, Well-led and responsive to our patient’s needs.

• Ensure on-going monitoring of the standard of treatment provided.

• Be compliant with all professional, clinical and integrated governance standards and participate in clinical audit and other quality assurance processes.

To succeed as a Senior Physiotherapist, you will:

• Have a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent, you’ll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.

• Demonstrate evidence of further professional training and continual professional development, reflecting your desire to develop as a practitioner.

• Be a confident communicator with the ability to engage effectively with the general public and other healthcare professionals.

• Be able to demonstrate excellent rehabilitation skills.

• Be a competent and confident IT user with strong organisation skills.

• Have the ability to prioritise and deal with your varied workload in an effective and timely manner.

It’s equally important that you share our values. We believe in putting people first and providing personalised, holistic healthcare. That makes you part of a much wider team, working to create a healthier future for each individual client.

Supporting your growth.

We’re committed to the professional development of all our clinical colleagues. Inside our Learning and Development Academy, you’ll discover a range of internal CPD courses and online content to support your clinical and professional development. As a Nuffield Health Physiotherapist, you’ll also enjoy opportunities to apply for funding support towards your relevant CPD activity and postgraduate study. Plus, you can access further professional development opportunities via the large number of apprenticeship programmes we offer.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Wessex Hospital

Nuffield Health Wessex Hospital is a stunning 46 bedded private hospital in West Hampshire with specialisms in Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology, Urology, Women’s Health and Spinal surgery.  The hospital also benefits from having onsite Radiology, Pathology, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy and Hydrotherapy so we can give our patients a complete package of care. There are 16 consulting rooms with speciality outpatient rooms, 46 private patient bedrooms with en-suite facilities, 24 hr resident doctor on site (RMO) and four operating theatres and one endoscopy suite.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you.