Job overview
We are seeking two highly skilled and motivated Physiotherapists to join our team, delivering assessment and treatment to patients within the community, including their own homes and care settings across East Cornwall. You will work closely with the Early Intervention Home First Team and the Community Rehabilitation Team to support patients’ independence, recovery, and wellbeing.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing specialist physiotherapist assessment and interventions tailored to patients’ individual needs.
- Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to ensure effective and timely care.
- Supervising and supporting junior staff and contributing to their development within the service.
This is an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful difference within a supportive and integrated community team.
Main duties of the job
- To manage a defined caseload of patients with complex needs within the Community setting using evidence-based practice, physiotherapy process and patient-centered principles
- To provide a high standard physiotherapy to the service, performing advanced assessments of patients including those with highly complex presentations, and from this formulating a diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To operate as a practitioner being the first contact for soon requests to help both prevent hospital admission and facilitate early discharge.
- To have an active role with the triage of new referrals coming into the teams.
- To provide leadership and support for junior staff through supervision, training, and appraisal as well as leading with physiotherapy students
- To participate in the planning and development of physiotherapy services.
- To cover a 7-day Rota.
- Model and deliver excellent evidence based clinical care, working as an autonomous Practitioner.
- To support the community rehabilitation and re-ablement model in line with a ‘one workforce’ culture across services, settings, and sectors in the community and step-down intermediate care settings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Broad range of post graduate experience of medical, surgical, orthopedic, and neurological settings
- A broad range of clinical experience in a variety of community and inpatient settings.
- Extensive experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
- Comprehensive experience of working as a physiotherapist with patients with complex conditions
Skills and Aptitude
Essential
- High level of specialist assessment and treatment skills.
Knowledge and Abilities
Desirable
- Good teaching ability/education experience providing training in a range of subjects on a regular basis
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Qualification - Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy.
- Current Professional registration - HCPC
- Post graduate qualification to diploma level or equivalent relevant experience or Evidence of professional knowledge acquired through specialist courses
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This advert is for Physiotherapist with Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Bodmin, South West, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Physiotherapist role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 Per Annum. The contract type is Permanent: 37.5hrs working between two teams in rotation (Home first and East Rehab Therapy). Primary and non primary assignment. Two posts available.. The application deadline is 04 Aug 2026.
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