# Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist Acute Frailty Therapy Team > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-6-specialist-physiotherapist-acute-frailty-therapy-team/8e5a9b08-3da4-4bf3-957e-5bcc2b873987 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-6-specialist-physiotherapist-acute-frailty-therapy-team/8e5a9b08-3da4-4bf3-957e-5bcc2b873987.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust - **Location:** Queen's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Physiotherapist - **Salary:** £45953.00 to £54254.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-27T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-17T11:36:09.900Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8303352 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8303352?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our fast paced and dynamic Acute Frailty Therapy Team in Queen’s Hospital. As a Band 6 Physiotherapist in a large and busy team you will be required to demonstrate leadership skills and be confident to work as an autonomous practitioner with a focus on early assessment and discharge planning, with rapid and robust decision-making essential for efficient patient flow. You will be familiar with the assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical, cognitive, and psychological health conditions within elderly and medical specialities to develop and deliver treatment and discharge plans. The Team works closely with the larger Multidisciplinary Team to care for acutely unwell frail patients attending the hospital and through collaborative decision making with our colleagues we facilitate safe and rapid discharge from hospital. We are based in Queen’s Emergency Department, Frailty SDEC, Medical SDEC, Queen’s Frailty Unit and an elderly inpatient ward in Queen’s Hospital. The team is an integrated service with Occupational Therapy, and you will be supported by Band 7 Physiotherapists, a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist and a Band 8a Clinical Lead. The team is very supportive and there are lots of opportunities to develop both clinical and non-clinical skills, with access to internal and external courses. ### Main duties of the job To provide a high standard of physiotherapy service, facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries To fulfil a teaching and supervisory role with peers, Junior staff and Students on placement ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification. The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application. Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form. All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period. Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Pubudu Chandrasekera, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5110. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills/ Abilities **Essential** - Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate - Ability to work without supervision - Ability to demonstrate knowledge of limitations of own clinical practice and identify appropriate solutions - Ability to demonstrate skills in assessment and treatment of acute patients in line with current practise and research - Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession and their implications for practice - Understand clinical governance and its implications for service delivery and demonstrate evidence of its clinical application i.e. audit - Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information (verbal, non verbal and written) in an accurate, clear and logical manner - Supervision of other staff i.e. assistants and technical instructors - Ability to work at moderate to intense physical effort throughout the day - Ability to cope working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers ### Experience/ Knowledge **Essential** - To have recent broad clinical experience during Band 5 rotations in an acute hospital setting - Active participation of in service training - Evidence of recent working within an acute hospital setting and treating patients with complex needs within the NHS **Desirable** - Previous band 6 acute experience - Recent clinical experience working in Emergency Department or Frailty Unit - Training of physiotherapy students on placements. - Participation in weekend rotas ### Education/ Qualifications **Essential** - Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy - H.C.P.C. Registration - Evidence of recent and relevant CPD **Desirable** - Post graduate clinical training - Clinical supervisors training ## Documents - [jd (pdf, 599.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10622919) - [candidate journey (pdf, 186.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1960) - [organisational goals (pdf, 2.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2610) - [policy statement - ex offenders (pdf, 104.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=431) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.