Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 179-7431328-I
- Employer
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Technology House
- Town
- Bury St Edmunds
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 Pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/09/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Community Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
An exciting opportunity for a Physiotherapist who has experience of, or is interested in community based working, has arisen across the Bury Town, Haverhill, Mildenhall and Newmarket Integrated Neighbourhood Teams. The teams are based in a variety of settings across West Suffolk covering a number of historic market towns surrounded by picturesque villages and countryside. Common to all is the need to work with a range of other health professionals and agencies including Adult Social Care, working together in an integrated way to provide the best outcomes for people within our localities.
The successful applicants will join a dynamic, friendly team of therapists, community nurses and social care staff.
You will be providing Physiotherapy to patients in the community and have the chance to work in an autonomous manner carrying your own caseload of patients with the support of the wider multi disciplinary team within the hospital and across the West Suffolk Alliance. The role includes provision of therapy for patients with long term conditions but you will also be providing a responsive, same day service to patients to facilitate hospital discharges and carry out joint health and social care assessments of need in the community.
Main duties of the job
You will be using a wide range of Physiotherapy skills and will need high level assessment skills. Experience of neurological conditions, musculoskeletal conditions, frailty, falls, dementia and orthopaedics will be an advantage. You will have opportunities to develop your role in accordance with areas of clinical interest, training and education are available to support this. Your additional duties will include the supervision and mentorship of junior staff and students and you will be involved in ongoing learning and development within the team.
The roles on offer cover both full time and part time posts.
Frequent Travel Essential - You will need to travel, so you must either hold a full, current driving licence and have access to personal transport or meet the mobility requirements of the role through other reasonable and suitable means.
We operate a 7 day service within core hours 8am to 6pm.
Working for our organisation
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description for more information
· To be an active member of a multi-disciplinary, integrated community team.
· To manage a defined caseload, using evidence based/person centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate therapy interventions.
· To supervise band 3 and 4 staff.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Current HCPC registration
- • Degree in Physiotherapy
- • Up to date manual handling training for the lifting and manoeuvring of clients and equipment during treatment sessions
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Completed clinical placements as a student
- • Documented evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- • Clinical placement in a community setting
- • Post registration experience in a clinical setting
- • Advice and support to students and support staff.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrate good IT and standard keyboard skills.
- • Able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service
- • Highly motivated
- • Good observational and reporting skills
- • Able to plan and provide appropriate levels of clinical intervention Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues.
- • Ability to work within a team setting.
- • Ability to reflect on own performance.
- • Demonstrate empathy and sensitivity
- • Frequent Travel Essential - You will need to travel, so you must either hold a full, current driving licence and have access to personal transport or meet the mobility requirements of the role through other reasonable and suitable means.
Desirable criteria
- • Training and facilitation skills
- • Supervisory skills.
- • Able to support other staff to review and reflect on their practice and develop a PDP
- • Knowledge of mental health legislation including CPA and risk assessment and management. Evidence of working at a relevant level
- • Knowledge of working within the NHS
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- • Commitment to person-centered, non-discriminatory practice.
- • Positive approach to change
- • Ability to work in domestic environments with low levels of hygiene and potential exposure to fleas, lice and body fluids.
- • An understanding of hazards associated with lone working in the community.
- • Manoeuvre limbs of around 5-6 kg
- • Manoeuvre patients using handling aids
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rob Moran
- Job title
- Health Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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