# Band 6 Specialist Rotational Physiotherapist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** London
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Physiotherapist
- **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-11T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28T14:30:52.198Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Hampstead/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Physiotherapy/Physiotherapy-v8173904
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8173904?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

To provide a high standard of specialist physiotherapy service to a wide range of Physiotherapy in-patients. This post consists of 9 monthly rotations in the following clinical areas: -  Health Services for Elderly People. (HSEP) -  Rapid Response ( A+E and acute medicine ) - Oncology - Respiratory - General surgery and Liver Transplantation - Renal - Vascular Surgery and Amputees

### Main duties of the job

 To assess and treat own caseload of patients as an autonomous and independent practitioner for patients who may have acute, chronic  complex presentation, and maintain appropriate treatment plans, and/or records and statistics.  - To participate in the weekend and on call rota - Supervise and teach junior therapists, students and assistants - To be involved in the teaching of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), staff and patient education groups. -Undertake and present evidence-based projects and research including departmental audit and suggesting practice changes, under the supervision of line supervisor.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for more information about this role and working at royal free London NHS foundation Trust

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- - Active participation in an audit or project work
- - Good understanding of relevant clinical guidelines
- - Broad range of clinical experience at a Band 5 level or above
- - Experience of working in an acute, hospital-based setting, including working within an MDT
- - Presentations to a range of groups
- - Teaching/training of staff or students
- - Supervision of more junior staff, assistants and/students
- - Computer literate, to include working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- - Evidence of CPD
- - Experience of weekend working and emergency on-call working

**Desirable**

- - Motivational Interviewing/ Behaviour Change training (CBT or facilitation skills)

### Skills and aptitudes

**Essential**

- - Evidence of specialist clinical skills and core Physiotherapy skills
- - Ability to work effectively within different teams both multi and uni-disciplinary
- - Ability to communicate with community partners and external agencies especially to facilitate safe and timel hospital discharge
- - Ability to be proactive in service development
- - Ability to critically evaluate current research & apply to own practice
- - Ability to recognise unacceptable behaviour and act on this appropriately

### Royal Free shared commitments

**Essential**

- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments.

### Personal qualities and attributes

**Essential**

- Strong interpersonal skills and assertiveness
- Negotiation skills
- Positive attitude to change
- Self-motivated and able to motivate others
- Demonstrates Trust Shared Commitments
- Professional integrity
- Physically fit and able to comply with manual handling requirements

### Education & professional Qualifications

**Essential**

- - Degree/ graduate diploma or equivalent in Physiotherapy
- - Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration as a physiotherapist
- - Certificated graduate courses or equivalent in-house training in clinical specialty areas

**Desirable**

- - Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)
- - Membership of special interest group

## Documents

- [b6 pt ps (pdf, 96.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10477218)
- [b6 pt jd (pdf, 288.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10477217)
- [functional requirements (pdf, 100.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10476466)
- [allied health professional - benefits, about rfl, shared commitments and governing objectives (pdf, 627.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2752)

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