Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Base will be between Skipton Hospital and Castleberg Hospital)
- Job ref
- 423-7821307
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Skipton Hospital and Castleberg Hospital
- Town
- Skipton
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Physiotherapist (Band 5)
NHS AfC: Band 5
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Please read the attached AI statement prior to submitting any application
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Physiotherapist with relevant experience to join our established integrated intermediate care team providing an Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward pathway. The team also provides therapy support to patients at Castleberg Hospital.
The service receives referrals from a wide range of health and social care professionals, with the aim of supporting patients with a health-related crisis at home. The team provide an urgent community response service to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and a virtual ward to support patients to remain at home wherever possible and facilitate safe hospital discharge.
We also provide support to patients who require an out of hours district nursing service and provide input to people requiring intermediate care beds in the community.
Main duties of the job
Provide a personalised intermediate care service to adults in their own home within Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven areas. This also includes providing therapy support to patients at Castleberg Hospital.
Perform physiotherapy assessment of patients with a diverse range of presentations and complicated physical and psychological conditions, to provide a diagnosis, develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme in conjunction with the rest of the team.
Provide a key role in working in partnership with medical colleagues, multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) and carers to set realistic objectives and to help to facilitate goal and discharge planning to enable safe discharge from our service.
Work to support the team in its delivery of interventions, to skill share with other professionals to support the full breadth of the service (competency training is offered to support this skill sharing method of delivering intervention).
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent pre-registration award in Physiotherapy.
- UK Registrations with the Health Care Professional Council.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant post-graduate courses
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Member of Physiotherapy special interest groups/organisations
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent and relevant undergraduate experience working in a variety of clinical areas and settings.
- Undergraduate experience of multi-disciplinary team working and working collaboratively with other professions and agencies.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in use of IT applications, eg SystmOne.
- Recent post graduate experience with relevance to the job.
- Community or in-patient rehabilitation experience.
- Experience of audit and research
- Experience of service development
- Experience of supervising others
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of standardised and non-standardised assessments and treatments relevant to Physiotherapy
- Knowledge of the roles of other professionals and the principles of partnership working
- Knowledge of clinical standards relating to National Urgent Community Response and ability to implement and audit these in the team.
- Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance.
- Knowledge to promote and support equality and value diversity
- Knowledge of the NHS Constitution.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of relevant national and local legislation relevant to Community Services, in-patient rehabilitation and physiotherapy.
- Knowledge of student education and development of self as an educator.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Physiotherapy assessment and treatment skills.
- Clinical reasoning skills.
- Skills to empower people to realise and maintain their potential in relation to health and wellbeing.
- Skills in the use of digital technology
- Planning and organisational skills
- Negotiation and problem-solving skills
- Presentation Skills, both written and verbal and ability to adjust style of content as appropriate
Desirable criteria
- Audit and critical appraisal skills.
- Skills to facilitate the development of others
- Supervisory and leadership skills.
Other
Essential criteria
- Current UK Driving Licence
- Access to own transport
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
- Cheryl Way
- Job title
- CCCT Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01756 702338
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