Job summary
We are delighted to offer this exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Physiotherapist in Burns and Plastics at Southmead Hospital a regional Burns Unit and Major Trauma Centre.

This role provides an excellent opportunity to develop advanced clinical skills treating patients with the following complex needs and problems:

• acute adult burns and inhalation injuries
• scarring
• open limb and major trauma injuries
• oncology including sarcoma, skin and breast
• other conditions and injuries resulting in complex wounds or skin loss
• limb loss

Working within a supportive and experienced multidisciplinary team, you will be encouraged to develop your clinical practice, leadership skills and professional interests through a wide range of learning and development opportunities.

Main duties of the job
As a Band 6 Physiotherapist in the Burns and Plastics team you will provide high-quality physiotherapy assessment, treatment and rehabilitation to patients within the burns and plastics caseload as well as inputting into relevant clinics and in reaching to burns patients in critical care.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing and prioritising your own complex clinical caseload.
• Working autonomously to assess, diagnose and develop patient-centred treatment plans.
• Collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams to support rehabilitation, discharge planning and patient flow.
• Delivering evidence-based physiotherapy interventions across a variety of specialist clinical areas.
• Supporting and supervising junior physiotherapists, support workers and students.
• Providing education, training and advice to colleagues, patients and carers.
• Contributing to service development, audit, quality improvement and clinical governance activities.
• Deputising for senior colleagues when required.
• Participating in weekend and respiratory on-call services.

About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol City Centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential

• Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy
• HCPC Registration
• Portfolio evidence of postgraduate learning
• Clinical Educator Training

Desirable

• Post graduate learning relevant to speciality

Knowledge, skills and abilities
Essential

• Comprehensive clinical reasoning skills
• Comprehensive assessment and treatment skills
• Ability to identify and respond to adverse clinical signs
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Ability to develop and deliver treatment programmes for complex patients
• Ability to supervise staff and students
• Excellent time management skills
• Knowledge of physiotherapy guidelines and professional standards relevant to speciality

Experience
Essential

• Broad physiotherapy experience including musculoskeletal, respiratory and neurology
• Experience managing burns and plastics patients
• Experience of physiotherapy on-call services
• Experience of working within Multidisciplinary Teams

Desirable

• Previous Band 6 experience
• NHS experience

Service development
Essential

• Evidence of service development/QI/Research

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.

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.