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Are you a physiotherapist with a special interest in influencing service delivery within critical care, respiratory and surgical wards?
The inpatient respiratory team are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated physiotherapist with clinical and leadership skills to work across critical care, respiratory, surgical and paediatrics in-patient wards at Victoria Hospital. There is a small commitment to respiratory outpatients.
You must possess a strong depth of knowledge, understanding and management of a wide range of common and complex respiratory and surgical presentations and be capable of jointly leading the provision and training for the weekend and overnight on-call service. You will require knowledge and recent expertise of complex discharge planning in an Acute hospital setting with highly developed MDT communication skills.
There will be an expectation to identify, act and lead on quality improvement, clinical audit, in-service training and evidence based practice. Holding responsibility for a number of Band 5 and Band 4 staff, previous experience of staff supervision is essential. The department is fully committed to the training of the next generation of clinicians and as such you will be actively involved with undergraduate and post graduate education.
Whilst we ask for engagement with weekend working, we support this with a dynamic approach to work patterns. We consider flexible working and support selective home working for non-clinical work.
Our friendly department offers in-service training, regular appraisal and PDP meetings, excellent peer group and management support.
For informal enquiries, please contact Amy Daly, Physiotherapy Manager, ext 26957
As from 1/4/26, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected.
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.
As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.
It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
Please note the salary is pro rata for part time hours.
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