Job Introduction
Shape life‑changing rehabilitation journeys.
As part of our interdisciplinary team, you’ll deliver specialist Physiotherapy for people recovering from stroke and other conditions in both hospital and community settings. You’ll supervise junior staff, contribute to service improvement, and ensure every patient remains at the heart of their care.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Leading the inpatient rehabilitation service and overseeing the day‑to‑day running of the physiotherapy team.
- Taking professional and legal accountability for your practice while ensuring consistently high‑quality patient care.
- Supervising, training, mentoring and performance‑managing junior physiotherapists, assistants, technical instructors and students.
- Coordinating and delivering training to maintain staff competency in assessments and treatments.
- Offering highly specialist clinical advice and support to junior team members and students.
- Managing a complex clinical caseload, prioritising effectively to meet patient needs.
- Carrying out comprehensive assessments and developing specialist, individualised treatment plans using advanced clinical reasoning.
- Applying advanced therapeutic handling techniques to assess and facilitate movement and functional improvement.
- Using evidence‑based outcome measures to track progress and support goal‑oriented rehabilitation.
- Communicating highly complex and sensitive information clearly to patients, families and external partners, adapting for communication barriers.
- Leading case conferences and coordinating safe, effective discharge planning for patients with complex needs.
- Working collaboratively across the stroke pathway and multidisciplinary teams to support seamless transitions of care.
- Maintaining accurate, thorough clinical documentation and contributing to clinical governance, audits and service development.
- Supporting policy development, driving service improvement initiatives and deputising for the Team Leader when required.
- Engaging in ongoing professional development, participating in training, and travelling independently within the community as needed.
Please see the full list of job responsibilities in the attached job description.
What We’re Looking For
Qualifications & Registration
- Diploma or degree in Physiotherapy.
- HCPC registration.
- Postgraduate training and experience in neurological, stroke and elderly care rehabilitation.
- Evidence of ongoing CPD.
- Confident computer user.
Clinical Experience
- Broad experience as a Band 5 Physiotherapist.
- Experience within the NHS or NHS‑commissioned services.
- Strong background in stroke and elderly care rehabilitation.
- Skilled in outcome measures and evidence‑based practice.
- Experience managing complex discharge planning and case management.
Leadership & Teaching
- Experience supervising junior staff and students.
- Able to deliver in‑service training and lead education sessions.
- Motivates and supports others effectively.
Teamworking & Communication
- Effective contributor to a multidisciplinary team.
- Advanced communication and presentation skills.
- Flexible, adaptable and committed to collaborative working.
- Clear understanding of your professional role.
Knowledge & Skills
- Understanding of national/local guidelines and service frameworks.
- Strong application of current best practice in rehabilitation.
- Confident in using clinical outcome measures.
Professional Responsibilities
- Willing to work across different areas of the Trust if needed.
- Committed to safeguarding adults, children and young people.
- Knowledge of local safeguarding policies and ability to act appropriately.
Desirable
- Neurological rehabilitation experience at Band 6 level.
- Demonstrated team‑leadership experience.
- Post‑graduate training in rehabilitation and/or neurology.
- A relevant teaching or clinical educator qualification.
- Introductory management training.
Package Description
As a Band 6 Physiotherapist General and Neurological Rehabilitation, you will be part of our valued team in our Neuro & Stroke Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £38,682 - £46,580 FTE (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes.
We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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