Job summary
- Main area
- Rehabilitation
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-NM220
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Heathlands Intermediate Care Unit
- Town
- Bracknell
- Salary
- £40,617 - £48,778 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Physiotherapist
Band 6
Job overview
Are you a motivated and compassionate Physiotherapist looking to take the next step in your career? Heathlands Care Home is seeking a proactive Senior Physiotherapist to join our dynamic community rehabilitation team, supporting patients to achieve meaningful recovery, independence and improved quality of life.
About the Role
As a Senior Physiotherapist at Heathlands, you will undertake holistic and comprehensive physiotherapy assessments and deliver individualised treatment plans for patients within a community rehabilitation setting. Your expert clinical skills will contribute to high-quality, patient-centred care, ensuring safe and effective rehabilitation pathways.
You will work collaboratively as part of a skilled interdisciplinary team, supporting excellent day-to-day service provision and contributing to continuous service development.
Main duties of the job
- To provide holistic PT assessment, goal setting, individualised treatment programmes, care planning/delivery, evaluation, and discharge of patients
- To provide comprehensive environmental and functional assessments and treatment programmes as required ensuring the progression of the patient to their optimal level.
- To provide comprehensive manual handling assessment and care plans for inpatient staff to follow, ensuring effective and safe manual handling on the ward.
- To identify, assess and manage risk.
- Where appropriate to take responsibility for the application of new skills to rehabilitation programmes.
- To provide line management and supervision to junior staff and students as appropriate.
- To maintain excellent clinical practice through the CPD process, and taking part in relevant research, audit and development activity as directed.
- To work closely and jointly at times with Occupational Therapy and Nursing colleagues to ensure a holistic and effective care plan is provided to the patient.
- To be responsible for the day-to-day management and prioritization of your caseload and be able to respond to urgent referrals and an unpredictable workload.
- To be able to manage potentially stressful, upsetting, or emotional situations in an empathetic manner.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on the main duties and responsibilities please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC Registered
- Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy
- Evidence of continued CPD with varied evidence.
Desirable criteria
- Clinical educators training.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post registration experience.
- Inpatient experience within physical health setting, including care of elderly, medical, orthopaedics, surgical, A&E.
- Experience of referring on to other agencies including the voluntary sector to continue patient’s care.
- Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience providing interventions for fatigue and anxiety management and cognitive impairment.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of palliative care.
- Managerial/supervisory experience and/or training.
- Community experience.
- Experience of educating and training informal and formal carers.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to assess, plan, and evaluate the rehabilitation needs of client groups and progress to effective outcomes.
- Ability to prioritise own workload under pressure and that of multi-disciplinary junior grades, assistants & students.
- Working with own scope of practice and competencies and seeking support as required
Desirable criteria
- Experience of clinical audit.
- Experience of appraisal, & recruitment processes.
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
- Imogen Scott Plummer
- Job title
- Physio Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 613 3181
- Additional information
Wendy Cupid -Head of Nursing.
07768470582
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