Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Monday-Friday
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (There may be some cross site working/travel within east kent area)
- Job ref
- 380-AC0765
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Martin's Hospital, Canterbury
- Town
- Canterbury
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Physiotherapist
Band 5
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.
We are looking for an enthusiastic Physiotherapist Band 5 to join our Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust Physiotherapy team.
We are in the process of redesigning and developing Physiotherapy services across all of our mental health inpatient wards and there are many new opportunities for developing physiotherapy practice and promoting the profession.
The work is varied and involves assessing and treating Younger & Older adult in-patients at our Canterbury Mental Health Inpatient sites.
You will need to be innovative, adaptable and be able to think out of the box to enable our patients to achieve their potential.
Main duties of the job
Regular clinical supervision will be provided by the Physiotherapy Team Lead.
The Trust is committed to continuing professional development. The Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust physiotherapy team have regular team meetings and opportunities for supervision, appraisal and informal peer support.
Experience in mental health is advantageous but not essential, although you will need a broad base of clinical knowledge and excellent assessment/communication skills.
Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s doing well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualification/skills
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification, Diploma/degree in physiotherapy
- Member of HCPC
Desirable criteria
- member of CSP
Experience
Essential criteria
- experience including elderly care, falls prevention, orthopaedics, MSK, Respiratory, community, discharge planning
- Ability to manage and prioritise caseload autonomously
- Knowledge of and ability to apply national policies and procedures including but not limited to confidentiality, consent, risk management, service user involvement
Desirable criteria
- Experience of dealing with patients with Mental health conditions
- Experience of lone working
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of best practice ie. NICE guidelines
- Demonstrate initiative when responding to changing client needs
- Committed to service development
- Ability to build a good rapport patients and ability empower patients to make appropriate change
Desirable criteria
- experience in electronic clinical notes
- Knowledge of national policies and procedures of client group
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
- Nathalie Yeames-Drieu
- Job title
- Physiotherapy Team Lead: East
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07707151987
- Additional information
please note I do not work Mondays. Email contact is preferable to telephone.
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