Job summary
- Main area
- Community Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: working pattern: Service cover Monday to Friday 8am-6pm. (7 day shift pattern in in-reach bedded team only)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 150-MT1980-CC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Therapy Service B&H
- Town
- Brighton and Hove, East Sussex
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 Per Annum/Pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Physiotherapist static
Band 5
Job overview
Band 5 static Physiotherapist Community Therapy Service (Brighton and Hove)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 physiotherapist to join our re-designed Community Therapy Service.
(Which includes the Community Therapy Hub and our in-reach bedded team)
Our multidisciplinary Community Therapy team provide a seven day service:
- A supported discharge service to facilitate timely hospital discharges which will be seen within 2 weeks as our target.
- Short term support for people who require assistance with activities of daily living.
- A rehabilitation service, including a range of therapies.
- Community rehab for people with long term conditions and frailty.
- In-reach team to assess and provide rehabilitation programmes to patients that are admitted to the spot purchase bed in Brighton and Hove.
- Discharge planning with access visits to facilitate patients to transfer the care from nursing homes to their own homes.
Main duties of the job
Calling all registered Physiotherapists looking to join a forward-thinking team – you could be an essential part of one of our Therapy Hub teams in Sussex!
We are looking for a Band 5, preferably with some community experience to join our newly developed and expanding Community Therapy team.
The post holder will assess, treat and monitor patients with long term conditions and frailty, as well as providing rehabilitation within their own homes.
Therapists who have experience of working in teams alongside Band 3 and 4 unregistered staff and enjoys helping others to learn will be beneficial. The post is advertised as full time 1.0 wte . We will consider applications for part time/ job sharing or flexible working.
Due to the domiciliary nature of this post a full UK driving license and access to a car is essential. The post is subject to successful interview, references, DBS clearance and Occupational Health checks.
The post will involve:
This will include joint patient visits, liaison with staff at all levels, providing feedback and escalating concerns.
The post will involve working with patients with a wide variety of pathologies and medical conditions and will involve visiting patients in their own homes or in-reach to nursing homes.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This will include patients who have recently been discharged from hospital and those requiring help to improve their mobility and independence.
You will need to demonstrate good time management and organisational skills and be able to work under your own initiative in a busy environment.
We offer a high standard of in-service training and competency development to gain new skills, along with opportunities for career development. You will be well supported and encouraged to continuously develop your leadership skills through supervision and internal training opportunities and programmes to meet the needs of yourself and the service.
You will be supervised by a senior physiotherapist who will work closely with you to support your continued development.
Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.
Please contact either Helen Lee (Therapy Operational Lead) [email protected] or 07825 584941
Or: Ruth Kearton (Clinical Occupational Therapy Lead for in-reach rehab beds) [email protected] or 07717138963
for any further information and enquiries.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy.
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Physiotherapist.
- CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical specialty
Desirable criteria
- Training in student education
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience within specialism underpinned by theory and specific therapeutic knowledge
- Demonstrates B5 competencies in a range of clinical skills
- Experience of using assessment tools and outcome measures, relevant to client group
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individuals
- Able to plan and prioritise own workload efficiently
- Ability to delegate work to others
- Demonstrates leadership in practice
- Good numeracy and literacy skills
- Promotes choice and independence in undertaking patient care
- Demonstrates advanced communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to demonstrate the application of research based practice
- IT literacy
- Knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the clinical setting
- Knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
- Knowledge of professional code of conduct
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge / understanding of boundaries of role
- Demonstrate ability to reflect and learn from situations
- Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
- Demonstrates co-operative team working and awareness of the roles of other professionals
- Demonstrates a commitment to learning and development with documented evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- Supervision and appraisal to junior staff
- Experience in both acute and community settings
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of interdisciplinary working
- Experience of independently managing a clinical caseload
- Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems
Desirable criteria
- Substantial relevant post-qualification experience covering a broad range
- Experience of working within a relevant specialist area
- Experience of supervising junior staff, assistants and students
- Contributions to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework
- Experience of triaging and caseload allocation
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Lee
- Job title
- Therapy Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07825 584941
- Additional information
01273 696 011 x 3855
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