Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Community Physical Health Services
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-7141548-CPH-A
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Memorial Hospital
- Town
- Greenwich
- Salary
- £44,485 - £52,521 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Physiotherapist
Band 6
Job overview
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist : D2A and CR-STAT
Join our dynamic, integrated team in Greenwich and make a real impact supporting patients across Discharge to Assess (D2A) Units, the D2A pathway, and in the community (CR-STAT team). Help people regain independence and stay safely at home.
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Deliver rehab in D2A units and community settings
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Support safe discharges in collaboration with the MDT
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Provide specialist physiotherapy across a varied caseload
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Conduct home visits across the borough
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Work autonomously within a supportive team
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Align care with the Trust’s community healthcare goals
What we’re looking for:
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HCPC-registered Physiotherapist
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Experience or interest in community rehab/discharge planning
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Confident, collaborative, and patient-focused
What we offer:
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Diverse caseload and working environments
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Supportive, innovative MDT
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Ongoing CPD, supervision, and Trust benefits
Main duties of the job
The successful post-holder will work across 2 D2A units in Greenwich and CR-STAT team alongside a team of Multi disciplinary professionals and Maintain own Client caseload.
- Undertake client assessment using standardised assessment tools and/or the single assessment process.
- Undertake holistic assessments and standardised falls assessment tools in order to develop a multidisciplinary care plan
- To work with the wider multidisciplinary team to devise a holistic care plan and ensure that all health and social needs are met in order to reduce any risks and maintain independence
- Recommend appropriate interventions to promote independence and safety
- To provide physiotherapy assessment as an autonomous and lone practitioner to clients, utilising effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence based practice to develop individual care plans
- Maintain effective multidisciplinary communications in order to ensure that treatment goals are met and a high quality service is provided to clients
- Ensure safe, appropriate and effective provision, installation and demonstration of equipment and further develop knowledge of minor/major adaptation provision and non-stock equipment availability and use.
- Contribute to meeting performance targets for the organisation.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care.
- To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and support more junior staff to do likewise.
- To undertake physiotherapist’s assessments in the Discharge to assess unit as well as in clients’ homes, in clinics and care homes as required.
- Able to assess and treat a variety of conditions. eg orthopaedic surgery, mobility problems, equipment needs, falls and other common pathologies
- To compare and utilise appropriate treatment form a range of options to develop, implement and re-assess physiotherapy care plans an on-going basis
- To demonstrate theoretical knowledge of multiple pathologies and impairments in the assessment of community clients often in the presence of incomplete or conflicting referral information to form accurate analyses and diagnoses
- To monitor, review and continually re-assess clients care plans and objectives against outcome measures in order to facilitate modification of packages of care/targets as appropriate to enable achievement of their goals
- To seek guidance from more experienced physiotherapy colleagues regarding the treatment and management of clients with complex presentations
- To provide advice and education to client, carers and relatives based on clinical evidence
- To provide falls prevention/healthy living advice to staff and clients as required this includes care homes, intermediate care units and health promotion events
- To be responsible for obtaining client and/or carer consent prior to physiotherapy intervention in accordance with professional guidelines
- To ensure management of clinical risk within own caseload
- Exhibit developed manual handling knowledge and skills
- Clinical prioritisation of own caseload
- To communicate effectively, with empathy and reassurance with patients and carers to maximise potential and to ensure an understanding of conditions.
- Delegation and monitoring of clinical tasks to Therapy Assistant Practitioners and Rehab Assistants
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Physiotherapy
- member of HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Member of the CSP
Experience
Essential criteria
- 2 years post grad experience with 12-18 months MSK
- Documented evidence of CPD
- Appropriate post grad expereince in outpatient, ortho and rheumatology settings as a senior physio
Desirable criteria
- Experience of audit/research
Skills
Essential criteria
- Understanding and application of risk management
Desirable criteria
- Member of relevant professional group i.e AACP, MACP, SOMM
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
- Rajkarun Masina
- Job title
- Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For informal visits or more information, please email
[email protected] or call on 020 8836 8631
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