Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapist
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 150-GM1933-UPC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 3rd Floor, Southfield House
- Town
- Worthing
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Physiotherapist
Band 6
Job overview
The Home First service brings together nurses, therapists, health and therapy assistants, to work with the acute Multi-Disciplinary Team & Transfer of Care Hubs to promote an efficient, effective discharge from hospital to the patient’s own home.
Our multidisciplinary teams work flexibly to provide a 7-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm. Patients who are discharged from hospital into Home First will be receiving step-down intermediate care, involving community-based assessments and interventions provided in their own home to support recovery and monitoring of their health in the early days post discharge to prevent re-admission. Home First will, where required, provide acute reablement for up to 10 days, supporting people to achieve functional goals and work towards independence with activities of daily living.
You could become part of our exciting service, bringing the unique benefits of a wraparound recovery service from hospital discharge. The principle of the service ensuring that recovery involves working towards the person being as independent as possible through enablement.
We are looking for a Senior Physiotherapist to join us, so if you’re an ambitious, proactive, and experienced nurse looking to take a lead role in a team that provides cutting-edge, excellent community care, we’d love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Physiotherapist you will be providing holistic assessments, planning, implementing, and evaluating treatment care plans, alongside reviewing care provision.
In this role you will be responsible for staff management, supervision, and development, including shift coordination, allocation of visits, and the performance development reviews of members of the team.
You will use your clinical expertise and problem-solving skills to support patients and the team. This involves completing clinical assessment, planning and the implementing care for patients including medication management, wound care, catheter care and identifying deteriorating patients.
As a member of the team, you will receive support from members of the multidisciplinary team and participate in the in-service learning programme. While developing your own specialist areas of practice, relevant to the team, you will supervise and support the development of colleagues, including those outside of your professional group and pre-registration students.
You will play an active role in the development of the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and quality improvement initiatives. This is a fantastic environment in which to develop your leadership skills through formal and supported training, using these to assist in shaping future clinical practice of the team.
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
Do you have a passion for rehabilitation? Are you committed to delivering an outstanding service which is fast- paced and reliable? Do you want to work with a team of caring and dedicated staff? We are looking for a Senior Physiotherapist to join us, so if you’re an ambitious, proactive, and experienced paramedic, looking to take a lead role in a team that provides cutting-edge, excellent community care, we’d love to hear from you!
You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence and access to a vehicle due to the geographic area covered by the team.
Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.
If you would like to discuss this role or find out more, you can contact our Operational Team Lead Andrea Acs [email protected]
For a detailed job description and main responsibilities please see the attached supporting documents.
We often receive a high number of applications for this role so please be aware that the vacancy may close.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality
Desirable criteria
- Training in student education
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial relevant post-qualification experience covering a broad range
- Experience of interdisciplinary working
- Experience of supervising junior staff, assistants and students
- Experience of independently managing a clinical caseload
- Experience of working within a relevant specialist area
- Experience at contributing to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework
- Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems
- Experience within specialism underpinned by theory and specific therapeutic knowledge
- Experience of using assessment tools relevant to client group
Skills and Knowledg
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate competency in a range of clinical skills
- Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individuals
- Able to plan and prioritise own workload efficiently
- Able to delegate work to others
- Able to demonstrate leadership in practice
- Good numeracy, literacy and IT skills
- Promotes choice and independence in undertaking patient care
- Able to demonstrate advanced communication and negotiation skills
- Able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
- Up to date knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the clinical setting
- Up to date knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
- Able to give supervision and appraisal of junior staff
- Up to date knowledge of professional code of conduct
- Able to demonstrate knowledge / understanding of boundaries of role
- Able to demonstrate how to reflect and learn from situations and identify difficulties as challenges to then work with others to identify solutions
- Able to demonstrate co-operative team working and awareness of the roles of other professionals
- Able to demonstrate a commitment to learning and development with documented evidence of CPD
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Car driver (Valid Driving License for use in the UK)
- Access to a vehicle for work purposes
- Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role
Desirable criteria
- Flexible approach to working
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
- Andrea Acs
- Job title
- Operational Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07795290594
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