Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Base to be split between TGU & Dartford
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week (Week days - Base to be split between TGU & Dartford)
- Job ref
- 380-FR0635
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trevor Gibbens Unit
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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.
Here are some clips of our Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us
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.
Join Our Forensic Services Team and Make a Difference
Are you an experienced and compassionate Physiotherapist looking for a unique and rewarding role? Kent and Medway Mental Health Trust is seeking a motivated Specialist Physiotherapist to join our Forensic Services, helping to support individuals with complex mental health and physical health needs within secure settings.
This is an exciting opportunity to apply your physiotherapy skills in a dynamic and multidisciplinary forensic environment, where you will play a crucial role in developing the service and promoting mobility, independence, and overall well-being for service users in low and medium secure units.
Main duties of the job
As a Specialist Physiotherapist within Forensic Services, you will:
· Assess and provide treatment for patients with a wide range of physical health conditions, often co-occurring with severe mental illness.
· Work closely with a multidisciplinary team, including psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and psychologists, to ensure holistic patient care.
· Develop and deliver individualised rehabilitation plans to improve mobility, function, and quality of life.
· Support service users with pain management, exercise programmes, and education on maintaining physical health.
· Contribute to risk assessments and care planning in a secure environment.
· Provide training and guidance to staff on movement, injury prevention, and the benefits of physical activity.
What We are Looking For
HCPC-registered Physiotherapist.
Experience working within complex care settings, mental health, forensics (desirable but not essential).
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage service users who may present with challenging behaviours.
Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team and wider AHP team
Commitment to patient-centred care and rehabilitation.
Join us in making a meaningful impact on the lives of individuals in forensic mental health care.
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.
Take a look at our Clinical Associate Psychologist Video
Take a look at our Consultant Clinical Forensic Psychologist Video
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 the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • A recognised professional qualification in Physiotherapy
- • Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- • Approved Clinical Educator.
Desirable criteria
- • Registered member of The Chartered Society for Physiotherapists.
- • Accredited Clinical Educator (ACE Programme).
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Minimum of 4 years post registration experience, including a broad range experience within a variety of settings.
- • Experience of supervising and appraising staff and students.
- • Leadership of others.
- • Experience of liaising with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external to organisations.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of leading service developments.
- • Experience of clinical audit and research.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- • An advanced level of knowledge and skill in providing physiotherapy assessment and rehabilitation to people with mental health presentations.
- • Knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment.
- • An advanced understanding and expertise in the principles of risk assessment and risk management.
- • Ability to motivate, empower and enable others.
- • Supervisory and appraisal skills (where appropriate).
- • Ability to work autonomously and co-operatively as part of an inter-professional team.
- • Advanced communication skills, communicating highly complex, sensitive and emotional information using a variety of mediums; being able to adapt methods/style/approach as appropriate.
- • Sound knowledge of clinical governance and its relationship to clinical effectiveness and patient safety and patient experience.
- • Effective organisational /planning and decision-making skills.
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
- Clare Hardwick
- Job title
- Head of AHP
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07879652656
- Additional information
Susan Miller, [email protected]
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