Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Employer
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Town
- Torbay
- Salary
- £21.66 Including 12.07% uplift for the Working Time Directive (WTD)
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 22/02/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 02/03/2026
Employer heading
Bank Physiotherapist
Band 5
Job overview
This role offers an excellent opportunity to work across the South Devon Health Community, providing high-quality physiotherapy care in a wide variety of clinical settings. These include ward environments, outpatient departments, intermediate care facilities, community locations, and patients’ own homes.
As a member of the Bank team, the post holder will be required to work flexibly across different services and teams. This position is well suited to a confident and adaptable physiotherapist who is able to work independently, while also engaging proactively with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team.
Benefits of the Role
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Flexible working to support work–life balance
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Access to the Trust’s training programmes and learning resources
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Ongoing support and professional guidance from experienced colleagues
- A rewarding role making a meaningful difference by supporting patients through recovery and their return to health and independence
This role provides a valuable opportunity to broaden clinical experience, develop professionally, and make a meaningful contribution to patient care within a supportive and collaborative health community.
Main duties of the job
- To provide timely Physiotherapy assessment and treatment interventions to patients presenting across a variety of clinical specialities. Bank work placement could be across any of the following clinical care settings: MSK outpatients, acute and community inpatient settings including neuro and community settings including Intermediate care, Neuro and Community Physiotherapy
- To utilise clinical reasoning to support admission avoidance, early mobilisation, and safe, effective discharge planning
- To support patient flow by providing rapid access to physiotherapy interventions that promote recovery, independence, and safe transition home or to onward care from inpatient settings
- To assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid formal consent and jointly agreed goals
- To work within the legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment
- To provide regular and spontaneous use of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to discuss complex information about underlying influences, diagnosis, prognosis, progression of rehabilitation and treatment programmes with patient or carer. This will include patients who may have difficulties relating to complex emotional, psychological as well as physical conditions relating to the presenting complaint. This client group includes those who have difficulties in understanding or communicating, patient may be dysphasic, depressed, deaf, blind or who may be unable to accept diagnosis
- Communication will include imparting comprehensive information daily relating to diagnosis, prognosis, physical and functional recovery and lifestyle adjustments to patients and their relatives/carers
- Communication will involve use of skills in motivating, negotiating, counselling, training, empathising, and reassuring
Working for our organisation
At Torbay and South Devon, we value our people and the diverse experiences and contributions they bring. We’re proud to be an inclusive organisation where everyone is supported to make a real difference. So why not join us?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide a Physiotherapy service as part of a wider therapies team based on service needs and requirements of the Trust
- To maintain accurate comprehensive and up to date documentation, in line with legal, departmental and CSP standards of practice. To communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports, letters or verbally
- Represent physiotherapy and/or individual patient to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multi-disciplinary service and to integrate physiotherapy management in to the overall management plan. This may involve health and social care staff, voluntary and private sector. This will involve advising to the multi-disciplinary team on management of physical recovery and discussion of patient care, progress and discharge planning
- To be involved in the supervision and co-ordination of support workers on a daily basis
- In most cases, be the sole health professional with responsibility for that patient’s episode of care To undertake advanced physiotherapeutic assessment
- To undertake advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse or complex physical, psychological, cognitive and behavioural conditions in order to provide an accurate diagnosis and prognosis
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Physiotherapy
- Current HCPC registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in the core clinical areas of physiotherapy within an NHS setting or equivalent setting – areas to include a range of respiratory, musculoskeletal, acute inpatient and elderly care, trauma and orthopaedics, community or intermediate care, neurological conditions
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience working within the NHS
Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy team and/or multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate experience in a physiotherapy related field
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chloe Jarman
- Job title
- Interim Team Lead Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
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