Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy in Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 380-AC0725
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Priority House, Maidstone
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Physiotherapist
Band 6
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. 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
Physiotherapy services for Adult & Older Adult Mental Health across services in West Kent within Kent & Medway Partnership Trust are looking for an enthusiastic Band 6 Senior Physiotherapist to join our KMPT Physiotherapy team.
We are in the process of redesigning and developing Physiotherapy services across mental health services and there are many new opportunities for developing physiotherapy practice and promoting the profession.
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).
Main duties of the job
The work is varied and involves assessing and treating across sites. The post offers a service to both Adult & Older adult Acute Mental Health. You will need to be innovative and be able to think out of the box to enable our patients to achieve their potential.
You will be working alongside and have the support of a Physiotherapy Assistant Band 4, who will be able to carry out exercise programmes that you have prescribed. Regular clinical supervision will be provided by the Physiotherapy Team Leader.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualification/skills
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification
Desirable criteria
- Additional training and qualifications
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of Post graduate CPD
- Evidence of service development
- Evidence of supervising junior staff
- Evidence of supporting students
- Experience of core specialities
- Experience of working with elderly clients
- Evidence of communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with mental health conditions
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
- Kathryn Harris
- Job title
- Lead Phsyiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07707152007
- Additional information
Kathryn Harris Physiotherapy lead [email protected]
Morag Willis Head of Physiotherapy 07825937522
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