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Job summary

Main area
Physiotherapy
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Bank: 0 months (Zero hours)
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
  • Other
0 hours per week (This is a bank position)
Job ref
264-7537523-BANK
Employer
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Kettering General Hospital
Town
Kettering
Salary
£31,049 - £37,796 per annum pro rota
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/10/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust logo

Physiotherapist

Band 5

Job overview

Are you a passionate and motivated Physiotherapist looking for a flexible opportunity to top up your current hours or try something new, in a new environment?  We offer flexible working hours on our bank across urgent care and inpatient wards to suit your current lifestyle as we know work / life balance is important.  We are particularly looking for physiotherapists to support our weekend service across urgent care and medical wards.

The  Therapy team holds a high profile within the wider trust and is at the forefront of many service development strategies, continually developing and introducing new, pioneering prospects for the service. 

Main duties of the job

  • To provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme. 
  • To plan and prioritise own patient caseload, working with support of a senior member of staff.   Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions and peer review.   
  • To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
  • To provide high quality, evidence-based care across the seven day service and participate in the oncall rota for adults, children and young people as the service requires.. 

Working for our organisation

Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close adverts once we have received sufficient applications

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is on an exciting journey with all of our divisions committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). As part of this collaborative approach, there may be a requirement for you to work across both the Kettering and Northampton hospital sites, depending on the needs of the service.

Our Excellence Values

  • Compassion
  • Accountability
  • Respect
  • Integrity
  • Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across UHN and help to unleash everyone's full potential. 

UHN encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups.  We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. 

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for UHN.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. 

This is a Bank post so therefore we cannot sponsor this role

 

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria
  • Professional Physiotherapy qualification. State Registered Physiotherapist
Desirable criteria
  • Member of CSP

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria
  • Good range of core pre-reg student placements
  • Previous experience of working within an Acute NHS setting
  • Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
Desirable criteria
  • Previous working in a care / public sector environment

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of well-developed good clinical reasoning skills.
  • Proven Physiotherapy Respiratory skills appropriate to Band 5 level
  • Able to demonstrate a good understanding of Physiotherapy working practices within an Acute NHS setting.
  • Good communication and customer service skills.
  • Able to undertake moderate to intense physical effort throughout the day
  • Ability to keep accurate and legible notes.
  • Evidence of having developed a wide clinical knowledge base within student placements and early professional career.
  • Good awareness of national and NHS strategies
  • Able to demonstrate an understanding of the principles underlying the appropriate delegation of tasks to others
  • Ability to work across 7 day service
  • Car driver or able to travel to the trust within 45 minutes when responding to oncalls (24 hours)
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of post graduate training if not 1st post
  • Ability to work in a stressful environment.
  • Understanding of legal responsibilities of the profession.
  • Presentation skills.
  • Detailed knowledge of national strategies and impact on service provision.

Other

Essential criteria
  • Team worker.
  • Prepared to be flexible in order to gain good rotation base within the Acute setting.
Desirable criteria
  • Reliable.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveDisability confident leaderInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.National Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark

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

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jenni Harris
Job title
Acting Head of Therapies
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01536 492388
Additional information

Jenni Harris,  01536 491159

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