Static Physiotherapist Trauma and Orthopaedics

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

With over 13,000 members of staff you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.

As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.

The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it’s important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.

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The scheme will operate for all external recruitment.

Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

If you require support/adjustments with your application please contact the recruitment team on 01332 788466

Join us and help make a real difference to our Trust.

Job overview

Please only apply if you have experience working in the NHS post grad.

There is a rare opportunity to join a supportive Physiotherapy team at UHDB, working as part of the Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy Team at the Royal Derby Hospital.

You will work as part of the multidisciplinary team to ensure a high quality of service for patients during the inpatient phase of their recovery on each of the following wards.

Orthopaedic Outpatients

There is also a comprehensive programme of preceptorship for newly qualified staff.

This is an opportunity for anyone wanting to further their physiotherapy career within the trauma and orthopaedic speciality.

Main duties of the job

To cover all wards within the Trauma and Orthopaedic footprint at RDH, including elective wards/spinal ward/trauma wards/daycase unit/derby private health/orthopaedic outpatients.

To work various shift patterns according to speciality service needs, over seven days a weeks.

To carry clinical caseloads and contribute to service delivery.

To participate in a well-established programme supporting your career pathway and personal development.

To perform physiotherapy assessments of patients with diverse presentations.

To deliver physiotherapy treatment programmes.

To hold own clinical caseload and be responsible for a defined area of service.

To work autonomously alongside assistant therapy assistants and delegating in line with clinical competencies.

To provide a flexible service during pressure times.

To contribute to the training and supervision of Therapy Support Workers and more junior staff.

To aid in the delivery of the work experience service.

To undertake specific tasks as delegated by the senior staff e.g. recruitment and retention events.

Interview date: 18 June 2025

Working for our organisation

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Person specification

Qualifications

• Qualified and Registered HCPC

• Extra student roles / ambassador / student representative
• Courses appropriate to position

Experience

• Keen interest in Trauma and Orthopaedics
• Evidence of working in Trauma and Orthopaedics in post graduate band 5 rotations
• Post graduate rotations completed band 5 in the NHS

• Good all round junior post graduate experience.
• Evidence of working within the care setting outside of placements
• Currently working as a physiotherapist
• Evidence of experience MSK, Neuro and respiratory

Skills

• Concise written documentation with appropriate information
• Evidence of being able to communicate with different people and in different situations
• Evidence of working as part of a team
• Evidence of being able to time manage

• Evidence of computer skills - Word, Excel etc.
• Evidence of using different clinical systems

Behaviour

• Evidence of awareness of the Trust Values, Compassion, Excellence and Openness
• Evidence of why this post
• Evidence of why Derby as a place to work
• Evidence of showing Trust values in their application

• Evidence of work/hobbies outside of work that will be an asset to the Organisation

Our Trust aims to provide the highest quality care to patients within Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire and we want the very best people to work with us.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

If we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

At UHDB , we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.

For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/ reduced hours/ compressed hours/ flexible start and finish times/ fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/ term time hours/ hybrid working – working partly in the trust/partly at home.

Why don’t you talk to us at interview about the flexibility you would like to explore and what it means to you, and we will discuss what’s possible for the job and team, and the opportunities we might be able to create together.

We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to work with you to look at all the available options.

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