Senior Physiotherapist - Oncology

Contract Type - Permanent, Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Salary - Competitive + Benefits (pension, health cover, flexible benefits and excellent career development).

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Oncology Physiotherapist to join our team at London Bridge Hospital. You will be responsible for a full clinical inpatient caseload, whilst also supporting the Clinical Lead Oncology Physiotherapist and Inpatient Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Lead with service development initiatives.

Duties and responsibilities

• To be responsible for a majority medical and post op Oncology clinical caseload, providing high quality Physiotherapy care to patients across the London Bridge Hospital campus.

• To be able to provide clinical support across all specialities, including Intensive care, general surgery, orthopaedics and cardiorespiratory.

• Use expert clinical reasoning to provide specialist intervention, support and advice to patients, ensuring best practice is applied at all times

• To support the Clinical Specialist Respiratory and Oncology Physiotherapist, aiding in the clinical development of the Oncology physiotherapy team and service.

• To contribute to the management of the department, audit, clinical governance and to maintain personal CPD.

• To support the senior clinicians and assistant with individual training needs and service development initiatives.

• To communicate effectively with consultants across Oncology, Haematology, Gynaecology and Urology service lines, developing and building professional relationships.

Skills and experience

• Experience in Oncology physiotherapy

• Experience working within in-patient settings within an acute hospital

• Experience working across other disciplines within physiotherapy e.g rotations

• Appropriate training at MSc level or equivalent experiential development

• HCPC registration

About the Facility

Rated as 'outstanding' by the CQC, the London Bridge Hospital campus in South East London encompasses an outpatients and diagnostic centre in The Shard; the large world-class hospital based at the Tooley Street site; Private Care at Guys, which is on the top four floors of Guys Hospital Cancer Centre; and outpatient and diagnostic centres across the City and Canary Wharf.

With 160 beds, 22 ICU beds and 10 operating theatres we offer our patients exceptional treatment across a multitude of acute and complex care and have use of the latest technologies and healthcare innovations.

For more information get in touch directly with tracy.wright@hcahealthcare.co.uk

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