Clinical & Medical

Senior Physiotherapist

Senior Physiotherapist

Nuffield Health Plymouth Hospital | Physiotherapy | Permanent Full Time | Part-time / Job Share hours considered

Salary range £36,750 - £46,580 pro rata per annum depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

Due to continued growth across our physiotherapy services in Plymouth, we are excited to be expanding our team and recruiting into this Senior Physiotherapist role.

At Nuffield Health, we want you to feel valued, supported and able to thrive. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed around your wellbeing and work–life balance, including:

• Free Nuffield Health gym membership

• Generous annual leave package, including 25 days plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell additional leave to suit your lifestyle.

• Wellness days

• Health assessments and wellbeing support

• Retail discounts

• Pension options

• Extensive CPD opportunities, including access to our Learning & Development Academy

• Funding support for relevant postgraduate study and CPD

• Flexible working options, including condensed hours, evenings and weekends

• A supportive, multidisciplinary environment with mentoring and clinical leadership

If you want to make a big impact on the wellbeing of your patients, this is where you can. As the UK’s largest healthcare charity, we’re shaping the nation’s health and we’ll help shape your future too.

As a Senior Physiotherapist at Nuffield Health Plymouth, you’ll have a BSc in Physiotherapy (or equivalent) and HCPC registration. You’ll bring excellent clinical reasoning and rehabilitation skills, a commitment to ongoing development, and confidence communicating with a wide range of people.

This role offers the opportunity to work across any of our three Plymouth sites:

• Nuffield Health Plymouth Hospital

• Devonshire FWB Gym

• Plymouth FWB Gym

There is also a requirement to work one day per week on our inpatient orthopaedic ward, plus participation in the weekend orthopaedic rota. Inpatient experience is therefore desirable.

You’ll be supported by our Regional Clinical Lead, fellow Physiotherapists and the on‑site management team.

The Role

You will see a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions and post operative cases, playing a key role in helping our patients achieve, maintain and recover to the level of health and wellbeing that they aspire to.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team including nurses, AHPS and consultants in order to optimise the health and recovery of our patients.

The hospital is brilliantly placed to support and mentor the successful candidate for this role, alongside our academy training programmes.

As a Senior Physiotherapist, you will:

• Deliver high quality, effective clinical care.

• Adhere to our values and beliefs at Nuffield Health, in which we encourage behaviour which is enterprising, passionate, independent and caring.

• Deliver excellent clinical care that is evidence based, Safe, Effective, Caring, Well-led and responsive to our patient’s needs.

• Ensure on-going monitoring of the standard of treatment provided.

• Be compliant with all professional, clinical and integrated governance standards and participate in clinical audit and other quality assurance processes.

To succeed as a Senior Physiotherapist, you will:

• Have a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent, you’ll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.

• Demonstrate evidence of a good level of specialist Musculoskeletal experience

• Demonstrate evidence of further professional training and continual professional development, reflecting your desire to develop as a practitioner.

• Be a confident communicator with the ability to engage effectively with the general public and other healthcare professionals.

• Be able to demonstrate excellent rehabilitation skills.

• Be a competent and confident IT user with strong organisation skills.

• Have the ability to prioritise and deal with your varied workload in an effective and timely manner.

It’s equally important that you share our values. We believe in putting people first and providing personalised, holistic healthcare. That makes you part of a much wider team, working to create a healthier future for each individual client.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

Candidates are encouraged to contact the Recruiting Manager to discuss anything they may wish to further, to provide any covering letter and arrange an informal visit if they require. Please email  ruth.andrews@nuffieldhealth.com or call 01752 761819

Rewards & Benefits

Helping you be and feel your best.

Annual Leave

25 days + Bank Holidays, increasing to 27 days after 5 years and to 30 days after 10 years of service.

Nuffield Health Healthcare Plan

Membership is free for employees and you can add partner and dependants at your own cost.

*eligibility criteria applies.

Financial Wellbeing

A range of employee benefits through a Financial Wellbeing provider – including affordable loans repaid through salary, access to your pay when you need it, simple savings, a government Help to Save scheme and money insights.

Cycle to Work Scheme

Save money, get fit and reduce your carbon footprint by taking advantage of this tax-efficient scheme to get a new bike.

Gym Membership

Free membership to any Nuffield Health gym, plus discounted memberships for family members.

Online GP

Discounted access to secure video and telephone GP consultations and a suite of healthcare management tools, provided by digital healthcare company Doctor Care Anywhere.

Emotional Wellbeing Support

Access to our Emotional Wellbeing services and discounted virtual, telephone, and face-to-face treatment.

Season Ticket Loan

Spread the cost of your annual travel ticket and save money with our interest-free Season Ticket Loan benefit.

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Hints & Tips

Help with your application.

Once you’ve found the right role for you, you can apply online. All you need to do at this stage is submit your CV, a covering email, and a few personal details.

Our recruitment team screens all of the applications we receive. So, if they see that you’ve got the right sort of skills and experience needed for the role, your details will be passed on to the relevant hiring manager. Then, if you fit all the criteria at this stage, you’ll be invited to take part in a video, telephone or face-to-face interview.

CV

Think about the skills and qualities asked for in the job description and show how you’ve applied those same skills and qualities in other roles. Focus on the things that will make us want to see more of you.

Covering email

Your CV will contain details about why you’d be a good fit for the role, but it’s well worth adding a short, snappy paragraph pulling out the two or three most compelling reasons as to why you’d be perfect for the job in your covering email..

Video interview

The video interview lasts 15-20 minutes if you get to this stage. On the day, look the part, be aware of your surroundings and practice your answers to feel prepared. Most of all, relax and be yourself.

DBS Checks

Some of our roles require a DBS check and they are processed through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as part of the recruitment process. These checks are to assist employers in making safer recruitment decisions. However, a check is just one part of robust recruitment practice.

Documents

You could be asked to provide proof of vaccinations as part of our Occupational Health pre-employment screening. We know it can be time consuming to get this information if you don’t already have it to hand, so we encourage you to start preparing this information to avoid any delays to the onboarding process.

Your current studies

If you are currently undertaking any strudies, education or apprenticeships, its worth noting there are some training provider we're not partnered with, and therefore potentially unable to support your continued learning. Ensure you share this at interview and for queries contact psc@nuffieldhealth.com

Feedback on applications

Due to the volume of applications we receive we are unable to provide individual feedback from an inital application.