Band 6 Senior Physiotherapist
Requirements
Applicants must hold a physiotherapy diploma or degree, current UK professional registration, and relevant continuing professional development, with substantial acute hospital experience including Trauma and Orthopaedics and complex patient care. They should demonstrate specialist clinical knowledge, experience supervising students or support staff, strong workload prioritisation, and willingness to work extended hours and travel between sites as required.
Job Description
Join the Trauma & Orthopaedic Therapy Team at Solihull Hospital as a Band 6 Senior Physiotherapist and play a key role in delivering high-quality physiotherapy services across a diverse inpatient caseload. This post provides an excellent opportunity to develop specialist skills within Trauma & Orthopaedics and Healthcare of Older People, supporting patients following fractures, elective orthopaedic procedures, frailty-related admissions and complex discharge pathways.
As an autonomous practitioner, you will provide specialist assessment, treatment and discharge planning whilst working closely with multidisciplinary colleagues to optimise patient outcomes and length of stay. You will contribute to a 7-day service, participate in respiratory on-call duties following competency achievement, and support innovative patient pathways.
The role offers structured supervision, leadership development, opportunities to lead service improvement, audit and research projects, and experience of supervising students, therapy support workers and junior therapists. This is an ideal opportunity for an enthusiastic physiotherapist looking to progress their clinical, leadership and educational skills within one of the UK's largest NHS Trusts, while contributing to high-quality, patient-centred care and ongoing service development.
Interviews will take place face to face.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
Manage a specialist inpatient caseload within Trauma & Orthopaedics and Healthcare of Older People, undertaking comprehensive assessment, treatment planning and physiotherapy intervention for patients with complex needs. Work autonomously and as part of the multidisciplinary team to facilitate safe, effective and timely discharge planning.
Provide expert physiotherapy interventions using advanced clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice. Participate in weekend, extended-hours and 7-day services and contribute to the Trust's respiratory on-call rota following competency achievement.
Supervise, teach and develop junior physiotherapists, therapy support workers and students, acting as a clinical educator and role model. Support operational management of the service, deputising for the Team Lead when required and assisting with workload allocation and service delivery.
Maintain accurate clinical documentation, manage clinical risk and ensure practice meets HCPC, CSP and Trust standards. Participate in audit, quality improvement initiatives, research and service development projects, using outcome measures and data to improve patient care. Provide specialist advice and education to patients, carers and healthcare professionals, promoting recovery, independence and safe discharge outcomes.
About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job Description
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma / degree in physiotherapy.
- Current registration with Health Professions Council.
- A levels or equivalent qualification
- Good standard of general education including GCSE maths and English grade C and above.
- Evidence of CPD including recent post graduate training relevant to clinical speciality.
- Evidence of leadership training.
- Attendance at Clinical Educators Course.
Essential
- Demonstrates comprehensive clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in this speciality.
- Significant experience of working in a health care environment / acute hospital setting, including acute hospital experience in T&O.
- Experience of working with patients with a range of complex needs including respiratory, neurology, and older people's medicine/frailty.
- Experience of treating acute chest patients +/- respiratory on-call experience.
- Evidence of Team /service development.
- Supervision of students, assistants, therapy Support Workers.
- A specialist knowledge across a range of physiotherapy practices, routine and non-routine, requiring expertise within the field of physiotherapy
- Understanding of current legislation and application to Physiotherapy
Essential
- Demonstrate enthusiasm for the specialist area.
- Demonstrate a professional attitude.
- An ability to cope with moving/manoeuvring patients/equipment on a daily basis.
- An ability to frequently concentrate on patient assessments and treatments.
- An ability to cope with occasional exposure to distressing/emotional situations.
- Able to contribute to weekend and evening service.
- Demonstrate an interest in developing expertise within the clinical areas.
- Ability to prioritise and organise own workload.
- Contribute to extended hours service/6/7 day working.
- Ability to travel across all UHB Sites and to external sites/patient homes if required.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Helen Jackson
helen.jackson2@uhb.nhs.uk
01214244668
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£39959.00 to £48117.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9019428
Job locations
Solihull Hospital
Lode Ln
Solihull
West Midlands
B91 2JL
Attachments
Job Description
SHH Band 6 PT TO 9019428 - Oct 26_Helen Jackson.pdf – 593KB Opens in a new window
Education
Skills
About University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe. We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK. We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK’s only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). We have over 24,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing. UHB is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aims to achieve positive change for LGBTQ+ people by creating an inclusive, inspiring and equal environment for both staff and service users.
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