Specialist Physiotherapist
Accepting applications until: 29-Oct-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 29-Oct-2025 23:59
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Accepting applications until: 29-Oct-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 29-Oct-2025 23:59
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Specialist Physiotherapist to join the Elective Orthopaedic Therapy Team at the Trafford Surgical Elective Hub on a fixed term basis for 9-months.
You will be part of a dynamic, well-established multidisciplinary team, working alongside a Clinical Lead, experienced Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and Rehabilitation Assistants. Our team is committed to delivering a holistic approach to patient care, ensuring high-quality outcomes for elective orthopaedic patients.
This Band 6 role offers the chance to contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives, and the education of students and junior staff, while continuing your own professional development.
Provide specialist assessment and management of elective orthopaedic patients across the Day Surgery Unit and Inpatient Orthopaedic Ward at the Trafford Elective Hub.
Supervise and support Band 5 Physiotherapists and unregistered staff, ensuring high standards of care.
Act as a clinical mentor for undergraduate physiotherapy students.
Lead and participate in service development projects, including audits and quality improvement programmes.
Contribute to the Trust’s 7-day service, including weekend and twilight rotas.
Participate in the on-call respiratory rota as required.
If you are an enthusiastic Physiotherapist with relevant clinical experience and a passion for service development, we would love to hear from you.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Heather Livingstone (Band 7 Physiotherapist)
0161 746 2053
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Your data is being collected by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, whose privacy notice can be found here.
The data controller for this information is Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. This application tracking system is provided by Civica UK Ltd (https://www.civica.com/en-gb/product-pages/trac/) as a data processor.
To make an enquiry, a request for your personal information held as part of this process, or to arrange for any mistakes to be corrected, you may contact either the team who are handling your application or the Data Protection Officer ([email protected]).
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