# Senior Pelvic Health Physiotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-pelvic-health-physiotherapist/9d0d54b7-29c6-4ede-add2-2feb51809f63 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-pelvic-health-physiotherapist/9d0d54b7-29c6-4ede-add2-2feb51809f63.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Physiotherapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-05T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-24T09:50:54.173Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Therapies/Therapies-v8174574 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8174574?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview A successful candidate will integrate well into the team providing a supportive culture to other team members both junior and senior. the candidate will attend multi-disciplinary meetings with rotational aspect of the role across the hospital sites. there will be a caseload of both obstetric MSK patients and pelvic floor dysfunction patients whom should be treated competently and safely. The knowledge to treat a bredth of pelvic floor conditions from urinary incontinence to sexual dysfunction. The candidate will spend time in an inpatient setting for postnatal advice, education and bladder management for patients and midwife education. There is regular supervision and inservice training which is built into the teams rota. ### Main duties of the job - To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care. - To undertake a comprehensive assessment and re-assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentation. - To communicate effectively, using a range of verbal and non-verbal skills, with patients and carers/family to motivate, engage to participate in therapy and to ensure an understanding of their condition. - To deal sensitively and constructively with patients and carers/family, who have high levels of anxiety frustration or aggression caused by a variety of issues, such as pain, poor prognosis or limited mobility. - To plan and prioritise own caseload independently on a day-to-day basis to ensure patients are appropriately seen, in conjunction with the priorities of the team and to give assistance to other team members as required. - To be flexible in the organisation of own caseload and to respond to predictable and unpredictable service needs throughout the day. - To undertake the measurement and evaluation of your own work and current practice through the use of projects, audit or outcome measures, whether individually or with the support of senior staff. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Recent substantial and sustained experience in relevant physiotherapy specialities and clinical settings - Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy and multidisciplinary team - To have participated in service development projects. - Experience of clinical education of staff, students or assistants. - Experience of supervision of students/ physiotherapy assistants, with development of basic supervision skills. - Demonstrate an understanding of the use of evidence based practice in speciality - Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital - To have undertaken audit and/or research, either within area of physiotherapy speciality or as part of the MDT **Desirable** - Previous experience in the NHS as a qualified physiotherapist - Previous senior physiotherapist experience in relevant post - Involvement with Clinical Governance issues and an understanding of their relation to patient care - Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital ### Education/ Qualifications **Essential** - Degree (or equivalent) in Physiotherapy. - State registration with the Health Professions Council. - Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio. - Able to demonstrate specialist learning from previous physiotherapy rotations, formal post-graduate level learning and informal CPD (both general and specific to clinical fields of speciality). - Demonstrate learning of personal effectiveness and first line leadership from experience and from both formal and informal CPD activity. **Desirable** - Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy - Membership of CSP special interest groups relevant to speciality ### Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities **Essential** - Able to apply a range and depth of knowledge to this specialist area. - Able to use knowledge of a range of treatment approaches in the specialist area. - Able to make sound clinical decisions based on knowledge/ experience/circumstances and utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills. - Able to carry out manual therapy techniques and therapeutic handling, requiring skilful and strenuous physical effort during the working day. - Ability to remain up to date with professional practice and research and integrate this into daily patient management. - Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate as appropriate and manage time effectively. - Ability to seek guidance and assistance when required and to be aware of personal limitations. - Ability to cope with working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients or carers. - Competent IT skills. - Good presentation skills. - Remain updated with professional practice and new research - To make sound judgments and reliable decisions in a variety of demanding situations. - Self-motivated and able to work unsupervised. - Able to work flexibly responding to the needs of the service. - Awareness of factors impacting on service provision - Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust’s policies of data protection, equal opportunities and health and safety and meet the differing needs of the patients **Desirable** - Evidence of CPD relevant to role and specialist area. - Well-developed abilities for communication and consensus building skills, to speak to groups. ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 506.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10477238) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional requirement form (pdf, 472.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10477239) ## 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.