Senior Physiotherapist in inpatient Orthopaedics: Special Interest in Spinal Surgery

Purpose of the Role:

Provide appropriate physiotherapy assessment, treatment and discharge planning in accordance with current best practice for the scoliosis inpatient service, including idiopathic, syndromic and neuromuscular patients, both pre and post-surgery.

Essential Criteria:

• Hold a Physiotherapy qualification recognised by the Physiotherapists Registration Board at CORU – candidates must state CORU registration number on application, or
• CORU application number and date of submission if still awaiting registration number in the case of section 91 applicants.

and

• All candidates must have three years’ full time (or equivalent) years post-qualification clinical experience.
• Recent and significant previous experience, & strong clinical background in acute Inpatient Paediatric Orthopaedics.
• Demonstrate evidence of recent formal continuing professional development relevant to the required area of specialism, in the form of post-graduate qualifications or relevant courses.
• Recent and Significant acute hospital experience.

How to Apply and Informal Enquiries:

Please note that you must submit a cover letter with your CV, this forms part of your application and CV’s will not be accepted without a detailed cover letter. Please click here for a copy of the job description for this post.

The closing date for submissions of CV’s and letter of application is Monday 29th August at 11.59pm.  Applications must be completed through the advertised post on CHI.jobs by clicking ‘Apply for Job’.

Applications will not be accepted through direct email or any other method.

For informal enquiries for this specialty/department, please contact Kevin Burke, Physiotherapy Manager, CHI at Crumlin (01-409-6461).

For other queries relating to this recruitment process, please contact recruitment@nchg.ie