# Senior Acute Medicine Physiotherapist **Company**: Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: Slough **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Permanent **Salary**: £41957.00 to £50387.00 **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9151-26-1364?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_6f400925-480 ## Description We are looking for an enthusiastic and adaptable Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our fast-paced Acute Medicine Team, working across the Emergency Department and Acute Medical Unit. You will contribute to the 0-72-hour pathway, providing timely assessment and intervention early in a patient's admission. Working closely with Occupational Therapy and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will help maintain mobility and independence, reduce hospital-associated deconditioning, support safe discharge and identify opportunities for admission avoidance. The varied caseload offers extensive exposure to a broad range of specialist presentations, including respiratory, orthopaedic and neurological conditions. You will use advanced clinical reasoning and demonstrate clinical autonomy within a supportive MDT. Strong communication, organisation and decision-making skills are essential, alongside the flexibility to respond to changing priorities. Our team includes a Band 7, Band 6 and Band 5 physiotherapists and a Band 4 associate practitioner, supported by a Principal Band 8a Physiotherapist. We offer opportunities for personal development, supervision of junior colleagues, education, audit and service improvement. The team is committed to evidence-based practice, emerging research and using key performance indicators to evaluate and improve the service. **Main duties of the job** - Deliver high-quality physiotherapy services, assessing and treating patients, including those with complex needs, using evidence-based practice. - Undertake comprehensive patient assessments, formulate individualised management and treatment plans, and implement a range of specialised interventions. - Maintain professional and legal accountability for all aspects of clinical practice, including accurate patient documentation and adherence to professional guidelines. - Demonstrate expertise in clinical governance and risk management, ensuring that treatment plans are supported by current evidence. - Utilise advanced manual techniques and therapeutic handling, often requiring moderate physical effort. - Stay abreast of developments within the speciality, analyse current research, and implement changes in clinical practice. - Safely use and ensure the maintenance of physiotherapy equipment, adhering to departmental policies. - Participate in 7 day working, weekend rotas, emergency on call rotas and extended days as per rotation service need. **Benefits** - First class development opportunities for all staff - Wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available - Encouragement of flexible working patterns to support work-life balance - Commitment to being an inclusive and disability confident employer **Requirements** - HCPC Registered - Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy - Evidence of continued CPD with varied evidence - Completion of band 5 rotations - Relevant postgrad NHS experience - Multidisciplinary working - Training and supervision to support all physiotherapy staff and students - Experience at a band 6 level in the NHS ## Skills ### Required - Physiotherapy - Manual techniques - Therapeutic handling - Clinical governance - Risk management - Evidence-based practice - Communication - Organisation - Decision-making ### Nice to have - Basic management skills - Supervisory and appraisal skills - Experience of research - Experience in development of a project or service --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9151-26-1364?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)