Job Title: Physiotherapist
Grade: Band 6
Department: Physiotherapy Therapy
Location: Watford General Hospital, WD18 0HB
Trust: West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Shift Pattern: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Pay rate: £18.10
Are you a dynamic and passionate Physiotherapist looking for an opportunity to enhance your clinical skills? West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our Inpatient Therapies Team at Watford General Hospital.
West Hertfordshire Hospital NHS Trusts services to a population of around 500,000 people across West Hertfordshire. We are committed to delivering the best care for every patient every day, supported by their values of Commitment, Care, and Quality.
About the Role: You will be responsible for providing specialist assessment, diagnosis, and physiotherapy treatment for patients with complex physical and psychological needs. You will play a key role in a multidisciplinary team, working alongside Occupational Therapists, Allied Health Professionals, and Nursing staff to ensure patients receive the best possible care.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct advanced physiotherapy assessments and develop individualized treatment plans for patients with complex presentations.
- Lead the physiotherapy input at multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings, playing a key role in discharge planning.
- Provide supervision and mentorship to junior physiotherapists, assistants, and students.
- Participate in the on-call rota for emergency respiratory care, working autonomously during evenings and weekends.
- Maintain accurate patient records and contribute to audits and research projects to enhance service delivery.
What We're Looking For:
- A degree-qualified and HCPC-registered Physiotherapist with experience in a Band 5 rotational post.
- Experience in an Acute NHS ward setting
- Experience in elderly care/general medical wards/surgery/orthopaedics
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges.
Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave
Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want
Job description
Job description can be provided upon request.
In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of
- Relevant Qualifications
- Registration with the relevant Registration Body if applicable.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
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