Speciality Physiotherapist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity for a full-time Band Physiotherapist ( hours weekly) to join our Physiotherapy Team at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford.

This role offers the chance to develop expertise across cancer surgery, transplant, renal, oncology and haematology care, with diverse and challenging clinical experience.

Part of Oxford University Hospitals, one of the UK's largest acute teaching Trusts, the Churchill is a centre of excellence for cancer, haematology, renal and transplant medicine, treating patients across the Thames Valley Cancer Network and beyond from our purpose-built Surgery and Diagnostics Centre and Cancer and Haematology Centre.

You will work closely with specialist multidisciplinary teams to support patients undergoing specialist procedures available in only a handful of centres nationally, such as intestinal transplants.

Across our inpatient wards, you will treat patients after major abdominal surgery, transplant surgery and head and neck cancer surgery, as well as those receiving non-surgical cancer treatment. You will supervise and mentor junior colleagues and students, build your leadership skills, and join clinical audits and improvement projects that influence patient care.

This post offers great career development for experienced Band Physiotherapists ready to move into specialist practice, and Band Physiotherapists seeking to specialise in this area.

Main duties of the job

• To provide high quality, safe and effective physiotherapy services to oncology, renal and surgery patients, as part of a cohesive multi-professional team.
• To work collaboratively with patients and their carers to effectively assess, goal plan and treat oncology, renal and surgery patients and strive to maximise their independence and quality of life.
• To supervise and teach recently qualified physiotherapists, support workers physiotherapy students
• To actively participate in quality improvement, clinical audit and research projects
• To take an active part in the team’s weekend service to maximise the access and delivery of physiotherapy intervention across days.
• To participate in the overnight respiratory on-call rota.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .

In NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment. If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.