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Location

Chelsea, Greater London | United Kingdom

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Job description

We are seeking an experienced Physiotherapist with a passion for acute medicine to support our acute medical therapy service. They will primarily provide clinical and leadership support to the Medical Rehabilitation & Frailty therapy team on the medical and care of elderly wards with support from the B7 Physiotherapist

The ideal candidate will have a broad range of clinical experience in core areas including acute inpatient wards, critical care or respiratory, neurology and orthopaedics. Additionally they should have some experience of leading, either through previous experience of supervising staff or students, or being involved in service development projects.

The post holder will manage a clinical caseload on our medical and care of elderly wards whilst also providing direct line management to junior Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants. They will also be expected to take on students and share their expertise with the wider multi-disciplinary team to support rehabilitation and prevent deconditioning of most frail and unwell patients.

Additionally, the post holder will work alongside their static Occupational Therapist colleague to support the service and staff development across the acute medical therapy service.

As part of the role, the post holder will be expected to undertake respiratory on-call shifts and work in the respiratory and orthopaedic weekend rota.

About the Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals,

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people.

Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate.

We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

Please see attached Job Description for detailed information about the role. Further information about the trust can be found on our website at

This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Feb 2024

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