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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Physiotherapist - 18 week Rotations
Closed for applications on: 4-Dec-2023 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 4-Dec-2023 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- St Thomas Hospital
- Address
- Westminster Bridge Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (on call duties)
Salary
- Salary
- £34,089 - £41,498 p.a. inc. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Physiotherapy-Rotational
- Interview date
- 13/12/2023
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic and motivated individual who would thrive in providing care for and working within a diverse community and workforce? If so, we at Guys and St Thomas’ Foundation NHS Trust physiotherapy department are looking for you to come and join our rotational physiotherapy team.
We have current vacancies and we will also be recruiting to a talent-pool for expected future vacancies.
We will be accepting applications from Band 5 physiotherapists who already have their HCPC registration or will as at the end of December 2023.
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We offer rotations of 18 weeks duration in the following Clinical Areas:
Critical Care (40 + 13 beds), Lane Fox Unit (long-term respiratory care), Cardiothoracics, Medical and Surgical Wards, Renal Unit, Neurology, Stroke Unit, Amputees, Vascular, Older Persons Unit, Paediatrics, Orthopaedics, Women's Health, Oncology, Musculo-skeletal Outpatients (including GTU, gym, hydrotherapy and community), Intermediate Care, supported discharge and community neuro-rehabilitation.
You will be professionally and legally responsible for all aspects of your own work. You will be supported to carry out assessments of patients as an autonomous practitioner, and to use clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of evidence based practice to formulate appropriate care plan utilising a range of treatment skills and options.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust is the largest teaching Hospital Trust in the country, employing over 300 physiotherapy staff. Our two main sites are in central London on the banks of the Thames, within walking distance of the West End and The City. We also support rotations at community sites within Lambeth and Southwark.
We have physiotherapists working in all major specialties within the hospital. All sites have well-structured in-service training and personal development programmes. Staff are encouraged and supported to pursue an ongoing professional education and continue their clinical managerial development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will need excellent communication skills, the ability to work as part of a team, and the enthusiasm and willingness to consolidate and develop your existing clinical practice. You will be expected to ensure a high standard of patient care and show evidence of being self-motivated. You will need to be able to work in a flexible way in order to fulfil the varied requirements of the rotations and as more of the hospital provides services across a 7-day period to be able to support those service requirements.
We will provide you with excellent clinical support from experienced clinicians and regular in service training to develop your skills in these varied and challenging environments.
We are aiming to interview the 13th December. We are only offering face to face interviews
For further details please contact, Alexandra Curtis on [email protected]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy & HPC registration
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development including attendance at recent post graduate courses relevant to the clinical field
Desirable criteria
- Membership of Special Interest Group
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work with multi/interdisciplinary team and set team goals
- • Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust’s policies of data protection, equal opportunities and Health and Safety to meet the differing needs of the patients
- • Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for physiotherapy services including experience of quality issues and audit
Desirable criteria
- • Competent IT skills
- • Presentation skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Completion of core placements – outpatients, rehabilitation (neurology, orthopaedics and care of the elderly) and respiratory as an undergraduate
Desirable criteria
- • Experience working within the NHS as an assistant or physiotherapist
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gareth Jones
- Job title
- Clinical lead Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071885082
No longer accepting applications
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