Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 391-RFL-7229266
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Free Hospital
- Town
- Hampstead
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

B7 PT Highly Specialised Physiotherapist and Team Lead for HSEP team
NHS AfC: Band 7
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a full-time band 7 physiotherapist with experience in acute care for the elderly. This should include experience in assessing and treating patients with acute respiratory, neurological, spinal, orthopaedic, and other health conditions.
We are looking for a Highly Specialist Physiotherapist to work in our multi-disciplinary HSEP Therapy Services team. This post is supported by a Clinical Lead Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist and Speech and Language Therapist. The team consists of physiotherapists, dietitians, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and therapy assistants – across an inpatient setting. The ability to establish excellent working relationships with the wider MDT is critical to the success of this role.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone who demonstrates exceptional understanding of the complexity of treating elderly patients with multiple comorbidities. The role will require the successful applicant to be familiar with safeguarding issues and how they relate to the acute care of the elderly setting.
Experience supporting the development of junior staff is important, as well as skills in quality improvement, service evaluation and audit.
This role is critical to the team leadership structure, and we are interested in someone who demonstrates a warm and empathetic leadership style.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top
For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details on the job description and main responsibilities. Please see Job description which includes person Spec for further details
Person specification
WCVs
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • BSc Degree in Physiotherapy or Diploma or equivalent
- • Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration for profession
- • Evidence or portfolio of post-graduate continued development in specialist clinical area
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of study or intention to study at masters level
- • Membership of specialist interest group
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Substantial postgraduate experience at a Band 6 level, including working with elderly patients with physical (including acute respiratory, spinal, neurological and orthopaedic conditions) and cognitive disabilities
- • Experience of working with elderly patients
- • Experience of working with frail elderly patients with dementia and / or delirium
- • Experience and ability of working in an acute setting
- • Experience and ability of working within acute medicine
- • Experience of teaching and supervising less experienced staff
- • Experience of teaching and supervising students
- • Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and use own initiative
- • Motivational Interviewing/ Behaviour Change training (CBT or facilitation skills)
- • Experience of multidisciplinary and interagency working
- • Experience of leading a team
- • Experience of clinical audit and/or research
- • Experience of teaching to uni-disciplinary/ multidisciplinary groups
- • Evidence of active involvement in service development & contribution to change within the workplace
Skills and aptitudes
Essential criteria
- • Able to display transdisciplary working competencies across Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy
- • Ability to carry out ward based respiratory assessment and treatment
- • Ability to participate in on-call and weekend working for respiratory patients
- • Ability to identify deteriorating patient
- • Evidence of understanding the skills required for service development and evaluation
- • Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others and effective time management
- • Ability to demonstrate clear understanding of clinical governance and its application to the work setting
- • Ability to demonstrate a commitment to best practice and awareness of relevant national standards/guidelines
- • Knowledge of quality assurance and audit programmes in line with requirements for Clinical Governance
- • Ability to demonstrate self-direction in thought and practice
- • Knowledge of research and development process
- • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- • Ability to lead a team
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jackie Wastell
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Or Joanna Medlicott [email protected]
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